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1378 km
.
Calendar year
Year
1378
(
MCCCLXXVIII
) was a
common year starting on Friday
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
.
Events
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January–December
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- January
–
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
, visits his nephew
Charles V of France
in Paris, to celebrate publicly the friendship between their two nations.
- January 13
–
Bal?a II
succeeds his brother,
Durađ I
, as ruler of
Lower Zeta
(modern-day
Montenegro
).
- March
– In
England
,
John Wycliffe
tries to promote his ideas for Catholic reform by laying his theses before Parliament, and making them public in a
tract
. He is subsequently summoned before the
Archbishop of Canterbury
,
Simon of Sudbury
, at the episcopal palace at
Lambeth
, to defend his actions.
- April 9
– Following the death of
Pope Gregory XI
, and riots in
Rome
calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who are mostly French, elect
Pope Urban VI
(Bartolomeo Prignano,
Archbishop of Bari
) as the 202nd
Pope
.
- April 16
– Da'ud Shah succeeds his assassinated nephew, Aladdin Mujahid Shah, as ruler of the
Bahmani Sultanate
in modern-day southern
India
. Da'ud Shah is assassinated in the following month, and is succeeded by Mohammad Shah II.
- May
–
Uskhal Khan Togus Temur
succeeds his father,
Biligtu Khan Ayushiridara
, as ruler of the Northern
Yuan dynasty
in
Mongolia
.
- July 21
–
Ciompi Revolt
: Discontented wool carders briefly take over the government of
Florence
.
- August 4
–
Gian Galeazzo Visconti
succeeds his father,
Galeazzo II Visconti
, as ruler of
Milan
.
- August 11
–
Battle of the Vozha River
:
Prince Dmitri Ivanovich of Moscow
resists a small invasion by the
Mongol
Blue Horde
under
Mamai
.
- September
– A contract is set up between
Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton
and the mason Johan Lewyn, for the construction of
Bolton Castle
in the north of England.
- September 20
– Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at
Fondi
, elect
Clement VII
as
antipope
, and establish a rival papal court at
Avignon
. This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the
Western Schism
. France,
Aragon
,
Castile and Leon
,
Cyprus
,
Burgundy
,
Savoy
,
Naples
and
Scotland
choose to recognise
Antipope Clement VII
.
Denmark
, England,
Flanders
, the
Holy Roman Empire
,
Hungary
, northern
Italy
,
Ireland
,
Norway
,
Poland
and
Sweden
continue to recognise
Pope Urban VI
.
- November 10
– Estimated appearance date of
Halley's Comet
.
[1]
- November 29
–
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
, dies in
Prague
. He is succeeded by his son,
Wenceslaus
, as
King of Bohemia
, but the office of
Holy Roman Emperor
falls into abeyance, until Charles's son
Sigismund
is crowned in
1433
.
Date unknown
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