
January 16 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English.
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (d. September 22 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. June 25 – Queen Joanna II of Naples (d. March 29 – Marie d'Alençon, French princess (d. 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. Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England. A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile. Bristol is made a county corporate, the first town in the Kingdom of England outside London to be granted this status. The city of Phnom Penh (modern-day capital city of Cambodia) is founded. The death of Sultan Muhammad III ibn Abd al-Aziz begins a period of political instability in Morocco. Assassination of Constantine IV, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (modern-day southern Turkey) he will be succeeded by his distant cousin Leo V. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son. 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. Louis I of Hungary takes Severin again, but the Vlachs will recover it in 1376–1377. November? – Philip II, Prince of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples. August – Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt launches a new invasion of France. June 16 – The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty is signed in London, and is the oldest active treaty in the world.
May 13 – English anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love. April 28 – Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest. March 24 – The Treaty of Santarém is signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and Henry II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries. #KEYSMITH IN 1373 FULL#
Year 1373 ( MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.Įvents January–December 1373 in various calendars Gregorian calendar