1376 in literature

1376 in literature

Events

*July 22 – Fabled date of the appearance of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
*December 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer goes abroad on secret state business in the company of Sir John Burley.

Births

*"date unknown"
**Gihwa, Buddhist scholar (d. 1433)
**Fernán Pérez de Guzmán, Spanish historian and poet (d. 1458)

Deaths

*"None"


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