1377

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Centuries:	13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades:	1340s 1350s 1360s - 1370s - 1380s 1390s 1400s
Years:	1374 1375 1376 - 1377 - 1378 1379 1380

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Year 1377 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

1 Events
2 Arts and Literature
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Other

[edit] Events

January 17 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back from Avignon to Rome.
January 27 - The Bad Parliament begins sitting in England. Influenced by Prince John of Gaunt, it undoes the work done by the Good Parliament, the previous year, to reduce corruption in the Royal Council. It also introduces a poll tax.
March 2 – The Bad Parliament dissolved.
May - Continuous riots in Rome induce Gregory XI to move temporarily back to Avignon.
May 22 - Pope Gregory XI issues five Bulls condemning the opinion of John Wycliffe that Catholic priests should live in poverty like the twelve disciples of Jesus.
June 21 - Edward III of England dies of a stroke at age 65, ending his 50 year reign.
July 16 - Coronation of 10-year-old Richard II, grandson of Edward III. Richard's uncle, John of Gaunt, rules on his behalf until 1381.
August - the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China scraps the Office of Reports Inspection established in 1370 for a new Office of Transmission, in his efforts to create a more efficient communicatory system in the empire. A month before this he noted that anyone could send petitions to the throne; commoners often did, although the only times their petitions were read aloud to the emperor was when they called for the impeachment of local officials that were not up to par with their official duties.
October 13 – Richard II’s first parliament meets.
Informed that Khan Urus of the White Horde has died, Timur of the Timurid Empire sends Tokhtamysh to take the Horde throne, but is defeated by Urus' son, Timur Malik.
A sermon by a German monk states "the game of cards has come to us this year" and prohibitions against cards are issued by Prince John of Castile and the cities of Florence and Basel.
The Pope's representative in northern Italy, Robert of Geneva (the future antipope Clement VII), pillages Cesena and 4,000 antipapal rebels are massacred.
Władysław II Jagiello succeeds his father, Algirdas, as Grand Duke of Lithuania. Jagiello removes his uncle, Kęstutis, as co-ruler.
Sayf ad-Din Berkuk leads a revolt against the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Alah-ad-Din Ali.
7 year old Mary of Sicily succeeds her father, Frederick III the Simple.
Harihara II succeeds Bukka as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire (now in southern India).
Radu I succeeds Vladislav I as Prince of Wallachia (now southern Romania).
Tran Hien succeeds Tran Kính as King of Vietnam.
A rebellion against the Majapahit Empire is squashed in Sumatra.
Mujahid becomes Bahmani Sultan of Deccan (now part of southern India) after the death of his father, Sultan Mohammed Shah I.
The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is completed, and becomes the longest arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries
Coronation of Tvrtko I of Bosnia king of Bosnia, Serbia and seaside.

**1377 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1377 MCCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2130
Armenian calendar	826 ԹՎ ՊԻԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-467 – -466
Berber calendar	2327
Buddhist calendar	1921
Burmese calendar	739
Chinese calendar	4013/4073-11-21 (丙辰年十一月廿一日) — to — 4014/4074-12-1 (丁巳年十二月初一日)
Coptic calendar	1093 – 1094
Ethiopian calendar	1369 – 1370
Hebrew calendar	5137 – 5138
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1432 – 1433
- Shaka Samvat	1299 – 1300
- Kali Yuga	4478 – 4479
Holocene calendar	11377
Iranian calendar	755 – 756
Islamic calendar	778 – 779
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3710
Thai solar calendar	1920
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[edit] Arts and Literature

May 10 – A deputy is appointed to take charge of Chaucer’s duties at customs, Chaucer being busy with diplomatic business.
Geoffrey Chaucer makes two trips to France this year.
Ibn Khaldun begins work on the Muqaddimah.
Nicole Oresme is elected bishop of Lisieux. Oresme's French translations from Latin versions of Aristotle are an important contribution to the development of the French language.
Al-Jurjani returns to Shiraz from Constantinople to become a teacher.