1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1373rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 373rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 14th century, and the 4th year of the 1370s decade. As of the start of 1373, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1340s 1350s 1360s – 1370s – 1380s 1390s 1400s |
| Years: | 1370 1371 1372 – 1373 – 1374 1375 1376 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2126 |
| Armenian calendar | 822 ԹՎ ՊԻԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6123 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1294–1295 |
| Bengali calendar | 780 |
| Berber calendar | 2323 |
| English Regnal year | 46 Edw. 3 – 47 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1917 |
| Burmese calendar | 735 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6881–6882 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4069 or 4009 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4070 or 4010 |
| Coptic calendar | 1089–1090 |
| Discordian calendar | 2539 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1365–1366 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5133–5134 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1429–1430 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1294–1295 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4473–4474 |
| Holocene calendar | 11373 |
| Igbo calendar | 373–374 |
| Iranian calendar | 751–752 |
| Islamic calendar | 774–775 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōan 6 (応安６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1286–1287 |
| Julian calendar | 1373 MCCCLXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3706 |
| Minguo calendar | 539 before ROC 民前539年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −95 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1915–1916 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1499 or 1118 or 346 — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1500 or 1119 or 347 |
Events
January–December
Date unknown
- Bristol is made an independent county.
- The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is signed (currently the oldest active treaty in the world).
- The city of Phnom Penh (now the capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
- Philip II of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.
- Leo VI succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine VI, as King of Armenian Cilicia (now southern Turkey).
- A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
- Tran Kinh succeeds Tran Phu as King of Vietnam.
- 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.
- The death of Sultan Muhammad as-Said begins a period of political instability in Morocco.
- 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.
Births
Deaths
- January 16 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
- February – Ibn Kathir, Islamic scholar (b. 1301)
- July 23 – Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
- November 3 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (b. 1343)
- December 7 – Rafał z Tarnowa, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)
- date unknown
- Constantine VI of Armenia (assassinated)
- Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor
References
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