Year 1379 (
MCCCLXXIX) was a
common year starting on Saturday
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of the
Julian calendar
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.
Events
January–December
*
May 29 –
John I succeeds his father,
Henry II, as King of
Castile and
King of León.
*
June 30 –
New College, Oxford, is founded in
England
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by
William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.
*
July 1 – Forces of the
Republic of Venice
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and
Ottoman Turks, having invaded
Constantinople
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, restore
John V Palaiologos as
Byzantine
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co-emperor.
Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as co-emperor, but is confined to the city of
Silivri
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for the remainder of his life.
*
September 9 – The
Treaty of Neuberg is signed, splitting the
Austria
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n
Habsburg lands between brothers
Albert III and
Leopold III.
Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.
Date unknown
* Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the
Kara Koyunlu (Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire), in modern-day
Armenia
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.
*
Dmitry Donskoy of
Moscow
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raids
Estonia
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.
* In the
Hundred Years' War
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, the
French lose control of most of
Brittany
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to the English.
*
Wisbech Grammar School is founded in England.
*
Timur conquers the
Sufid Dynasty of Khwarazm.
Births
*
October 4 – King
Henry III of Castile (d.
1406)
* ''date unknown''
**
Jerome of Prague,
Hussite (d.
1416)
**
Empress Zhang (Hongxi) of China (d.
1442)
Deaths
*
February 18 –
Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. )
*
May 29 – King
Henry II of Castile (b.
1333)
*
November 15 –
Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (b.
1346)
*
December 16 –
John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
* ''date unknown'' –
Aqsara'i, Persian physician
References
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