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| 1366 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1366 MCCCLXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2119 |
| Armenian calendar | 815 ԹՎ ՊԺԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6116 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1287–1288 |
| Bengali calendar | 773 |
| Berber calendar | 2316 |
| English Regnal year | 39 Edw. 3 – 40 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1910 |
| Burmese calendar | 728 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6874–6875 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4063 or 3856 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4064 or 3857 |
| Coptic calendar | 1082–1083 |
| Discordian calendar | 2532 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1358–1359 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5126–5127 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1422–1423 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1287–1288 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4466–4467 |
| Holocene calendar | 11366 |
| Igbo calendar | 366–367 |
| Iranian calendar | 744–745 |
| Islamic calendar | 767–768 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōji 5 (貞治５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1279–1280 |
| Julian calendar | 1366 MCCCLXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3699 |
| Minguo calendar | 546 before ROC 民前546年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −102 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1908–1909 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1492 or 1111 or 339 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1493 or 1112 or 340 |
Year 1366 (MCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- March 13 – Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.
- October 12 – Frederick III of Sicily forbids decorations on synagogues.
- October 26 – Comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle passes 0.0229 AU (3,430,000 km; 2,130,000 mi) from Earth.[1]
Date unknown
- War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India.
- Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.
- Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz I of Morocco succeeds assassinated Abu Zayyan as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco.
- The Statutes of Kilkenny are passed, aiming to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland.
- The Den Hoorn brewery is founded at Leuven in the Low Countries. In 1717 this will be renamed the Brouwerij Artois, and later releases a beer in 1926 named Stella Artois.
- Zhu Yuanzhang, leader of the Red Turban Rebellion that will overthrow the Yuan dynasty and establish the Ming dynasty two years later, begins building the walls for a new capital city at Nanjing.
- Thomas Fraser obtains lands in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) on which he starts the building of a towerhouse, that will later be known as Muchalls Castle.
Births
- May 11 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394)[2]
- August 28 – Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (d. 1421)
- date unknown
- Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noblewoman (d. 1425)
- Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (d. 1408)
- Approximate
- Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (d.1399)[3]
Deaths
- January 25 – Henry Suso, German mystic (b. c. 1295)
- April 26 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
- May 20 – Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)
- Summer – Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia (b. 1331)
- October 14 – Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (b. 1287)[4]
- October 18 – Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
References
- ^ "Closest Approaches to the Earth by Comets". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ^ Andrew, M. (2016). The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer. Springer. p. 11. ISBN 9780230273962.
- ^ "Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
- ^ Rikabi, J. (1971). "Ibn Nubāta". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 900–901. OCLC 495469525.