1369

Year 1369 (MCCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1369

*March 14 - Pedro of Castile loses the Battle of Montiel to an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II.
*May - King Charles V of France renounces the Treaty of Brétigny and war is declared between France and England. The French recapture most of Aquitaine.
*December - Financed by Charles V of France, Welshman Owain Lawgoch launches an invasion fleet against the English in an attempt to claim the throne of Wales. A storm causes Owain to abandon the invasion.
* Venice repels a Hungarian invasion.
* Hugues Aubriot founds the Bastille in Paris.
* Tamerlane names the city of Samarkand as the capital of his empire.
* Košice becomes the first town in Europe to be granted its own coat of arms.
* The Turks invade Bulgaria.
* The Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya conquers Cambodia for a second time.
* Duong Nhat Le succeeds Tran Hao as King of Vietnam.
* The Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming Dynasty issues a decree ordering every country magistrate in the empire to open a Confucian school of learning.

Births

*May 28 - Muzio Sforza, "condottiero" (d. 1424)
*"date unknown" - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (d. 1414)
*"probable" - King Constantine I of Georgia (d. c. 1412)

Deaths

* January 17 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
* March 23 - King Pedro of Castile (b. 1334) (murdered after the battle of Montiel)
* August 15 - Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (b. 1311) (dropsy)
* September 12 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (plague) (b. 1345)
* October 3 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
*November 13 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
*"date unknown"
**Sir John Chandos, English knight
**Agnes Dunbar, Countess of Moray
**Magnus the Pious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
**Ramathibodi I, first king of Ayutthaya (b. 1314)