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| 1374 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1374 MCCCLXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2127 |
| Armenian calendar | 823 ԹՎ ՊԻԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6124 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1295–1296 |
| Bengali calendar | 780–781 |
| Berber calendar | 2324 |
| English Regnal year | 47 Edw. 3 – 48 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1918 |
| Burmese calendar | 736 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6882–6883 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4071 or 3864 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4072 or 3865 |
| Coptic calendar | 1090–1091 |
| Discordian calendar | 2540 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1366–1367 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5134–5135 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1430–1431 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1295–1296 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4474–4475 |
| Holocene calendar | 11374 |
| Igbo calendar | 374–375 |
| Iranian calendar | 752–753 |
| Islamic calendar | 775–776 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōan 7 (応安７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1287–1288 |
| Julian calendar | 1374 MCCCLXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3707 |
| Minguo calendar | 538 before ROC 民前538年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −94 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1916–1917 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1500 or 1119 or 347 — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) 1501 or 1120 or 348 |
Year 1374 (MCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- April 23 – In recognition of his services, Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day, for the rest of his life.
- June 24 – The illness dancing mania begins in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), possibly due to ergotism.
- October 27 – King Gongmin of Goryeo is assassinated and succeeded by U of Goryeo on the throne of Goryeo (in modern-day Korea).
- November 25 – James of Baux succeeds his uncle, Philip II, as Prince of Taranto (modern-day eastern Italy) and titular ruler of the Latin Empire (northern Greece and western Turkey).
Date unknown
- Rao Biram Dev succeeds Rao Kanhadev as ruler of Marwar (the modern-day Jodhpur district of India).
- Shaikh Hasan Jalayir succeeds his father, Shaykh Uways Jalayir, as ruler of the Jalayirid Sultanate in modern-day Iraq and western Iran. Hasan proves to be an unpopular ruler and is executed on October 9 and succeeded by his brother, Shaikh Hussain Jalayir.
- Musa II succeeds his father, Mari Djata II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire (modern-day Mali and Senegal).
- Robert de Juilly succeeds Raymond Berenger as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
- Princes from the Kingdom of Granada choose Abu al-Abbas Ahmad to succeed Muhammad as-Said, as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco. The Empire is split into the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Marrakech.
- A form of the Great Plague returns to Europe.
- The Château de Compiègne royal residence is built in France.
Births
- April 11 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)
- November 26 – Yury Dmitrievich, Russian grand prince (d. 1434)
- probable
- Queen Jadwiga of Poland
- King Martin I of Sicily (d. 1409)
Deaths
- March 12 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (b. 1338).
- June 5 or June 6 – William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury
- June 29 – Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformer
- July 19 – Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
- September – Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1295)
- October 27 – King Gongmin of Goryeo (b. 1330)
- November 25 – Prince Philip II of Taranto
- December 1 – Magnus Eriksson, king of Sweden (b. 1316)
- date unknown – Gao Qi, Chinese poet (born 1336)
- date unknown – Konrad of Megenberg, historian (b. 1309)[1]
References
- ^ "Book of Nature". World Digital Library. August 7, 2013. Retrieved August 27, 2013.