1366
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1330s 1340s 1350s - 1360s - 1370s 1380s 1390s |
| Years: | 1363 1364 1365 - 1366 - 1367 1368 1369 |
| 1366 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1366 MCCCLXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2119 |
| Armenian calendar | 815 ԹՎ ՊԺԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -478 – -477 |
| Berber calendar | 2316 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1910 |
| Burmese calendar | 728 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6874 – 6875 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十一月二十日 (4002/4062-11-20) — to —
丙午年十一月廿九日(4003/4063-11-29) |
| Coptic calendar | 1082 – 1083 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1358 – 1359 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5126 – 5127 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1421 – 1422 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1288 – 1289 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4467 – 4468 |
| Holocene calendar | 11366 |
| Iranian calendar | 744 – 745 |
| Islamic calendar | 767 – 768 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3699 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1909 |
Year 1366 (MCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1366
- Thomas Fraser obtains lands in Aberdeenshire, upon which he starts the building of a towerhouse that will later be known as Muchalls Castle.
- Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.
- Muhammed V builds the Granada Hospital in Granada (in present-day Spain).
- War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in present-day southern India. Tens of thousands of civilians are massacred by each side.
- Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow & Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.
- Abu Faris Abdul Aziz succeeds assassinated Abu Zayyan as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco.
- The Stella Artois brewery is founded in present-day Belgium. they still brew their Lager the same way to this very day.
- The Statutes of Kilkenny are passed in Ireland.
- Zhu Yuanzhang, leader of the Red Turban Rebellion that will overthrow the Yuan Dynasty and establish the Ming Dynasty 2 years later, begins building the walls for a new capital city at Nanjing.
[edit] Births
- March 22 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
- July 11 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 25 – Henry Suso, German mystic
- April 26 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
- May 20 – Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)
- October – Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
- date unknown – Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia

