1379 facts for kids

The year 1379 was a common year. This means it wasn't a leap year. It started on a Saturday, according to the Julian calendar, which was used a long time ago.

Important Events of 1379

• On September 9, a very important agreement called the Treaty of Neuberg was signed. This treaty divided the lands of the Habsburg family in Austria between two brothers, Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III kept the title of Duke of Austria.
• The people from the Republic of Venice and soldiers from the Ottoman Empire attacked Constantinople. They helped John V Palaiologos become a co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire again. Another co-emperor, Andronikos IV Palaiologos, was allowed to keep his title but had to live in the city of Silivri for the rest of his life.
• John I became the King of Castile and León. He took over after his father, Henry II, passed away.
• Bairam Khawaja started his own independent area called the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire. This area is in what we now call Armenia.
• Dmitri Donskoi, a leader from Moscow, led a raid into Estonia.
• A new school called New College, Oxford was started in Oxford, England.
• Wisbech Grammar School was founded in England.

People Born in 1379

• October 4 – King Henry III of Castile was born. He later became a king and lived until 1406.
• Ferdinand I of Aragon was born. He would become a king and died in 1416.
• Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland was born around this time. She lived until 1440.

People Who Died in 1379

• February 18 – Albert II of Mecklenburg passed away.
• May 29 – King Henry II of Castile died. He was born in 1334.
• December 16 – John Fitzalan, who was a Marshal of England, sadly drowned.
• Aqsara'i, a Persian doctor, also died this year.

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