1373 Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1340s 1350s 1360s – 1370s – 1380s 1390s 1400s
Years:	1370 1371 1372 – 1373 – 1374 1375 1376

Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

March 24 – The Treaty of Santarém is signed between D. Fernando of Portugal and Henrique II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries.
May 13 – Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.

Bristol is made an independent county.
The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is signed (currently the oldest active treaty in the world).
The city of Phnom Penh (now the capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
Philip II of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.
Leo VI succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine VI, as King of Armenian Cilicia (now southern Turkey).
A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
Tran Kinh succeeds Tran Phu as King of Vietnam.
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. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son.
The death of Sultan Muhammad as-Said begins a period of political instability in Morocco.
Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.
The Adina Mosque is built in Bengal.
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.

March 29 – Marie of Alencon, French princess (d. 1417)
June 23 – Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435)
September 22 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
date unknown
- Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (d. 1415)
- Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English

January 16 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
February – Ibn Kathir, Islamic scholar (b. 1301)
July 23 – Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
November 3 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (b. 1343)
December 7 – Rafał z Tarnowa, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)
date unknown
- Constantine VI of Armenia (assassinated)
- Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor