Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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January&ndash;December

  • March 24 &ndash; The Treaty of Santarém is signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and Henry II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries.
  • April 28 &ndash; Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest.
  • May 13 &ndash; English anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.
  • June 16 &ndash; The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty is signed in London, and is the oldest active treaty in the world.
  • August &ndash; Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt launches a new invasion of France.
  • November? &ndash; Philip II, Prince of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.

Date unknown

  • Louis I of Hungary takes Severin again, but the Vlachs will recover it in 1376–1377.
  • Byzantine co-emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos rebels against his father, John V Palaiologos, for agreeing to let Constantinople become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son.
  • Constantine IV, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (modern-day southern Turkey), is assassinated; he is succeeded by his distant cousin Leo V.
  • The death of Sultan Muhammad III ibn Abd al-Aziz begins a period of political instability in Morocco.
  • The city of Phnom Penh (modern-day capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
  • Bristol is made a county corporate, the first town in the Kingdom of England outside London to be granted this status.
  • A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
  • Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.
  • The Adina Mosque is built in Bengal.
  • The Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor, suspends the traditional civil service examination system after complaining that the 120 new jinshi degree-holders are too incompetent to hold office; he instead relies solely upon a system of recommendations, until the civil service exams are reinstated in 1384.</onlyinclude>

Births

  • March 29 &ndash; Marie d'Alençon, French princess (d. 1417)
  • June 25 &ndash; Queen Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
  • September 22 &ndash; Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
  • date unknown
  • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (d. 1415)
  • Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English

Deaths

  • January 16 &ndash; Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
  • February &ndash; Ibn Kathir, Mamluk Islamic scholar (b. 1301)
  • July 23 &ndash; Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
  • November 3 &ndash; Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (b. 1343)
  • December 7 &ndash; Rafał of Tarnów, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)
  • date unknown
  • Constantine IV, King of Armenia (assassinated)
  • Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor
  • Tiphaine Raguenel, Breton astrologer (b. c. 1335)

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