1374 Totally Explained

Everything about 1374 totally explained

Year 1374 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

April 23 - In recognition of his services, Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life.
June 24 - The illness dancing mania begins in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), possibly due to ergotism.
King Gongmin is assassinated and King U ascends to the throne of Goryeo (now in Korea).
Leu Thai becomes King of Sukhothai (now in northern Thailand) after the death of King Lithai.
Rao Biram Dev succeeds Rao Kanhadev as ruler of Marwar (now the Jodhpur district of India).
James of Baux succeeds his uncle, Philip II, as Prince of Taranto (now eastern Italy) and titular ruler of the Latin Empire (now northern Greece and western Turkey).
Hasan succeeds his father, Shaikh Uvais, as ruler of the Jalayirid sultanate in present-day Iraq and western Iran. Hasan proves to be an unpopular ruler and is executed in the same year. Hasan's brother, Husain, succeeds him as ruler.
Musa II succeeds his father, Mari Djata II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire (now Mali & Senegal).
Robert de Juilly succeeds Raymond Berenger as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
Princes from the Kingdom of Grenada choose Abu al-Abbas Ahmad to succeed Muhammad as-Said as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco. The Empire is split into the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Marrakech.
The Château de Compiègne royal residence is built in France.

Births

King Jadwiga of Poland

April 11 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)

Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist (d. 1444)

Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (d. 1434)

Martin I of Sicily (d. 1409)

Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (d. 1400)

Deaths

March 12 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336).

June 5/6 - William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury

June 29 – Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformer

July 19 - Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)

September - Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1295)

November 25 - Prince Philip II of Taranto

December 1 - Magnus Ericson, co-king of Norway and former co-king of Sweden

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