1377

Year 1377 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January - June

*January 17 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back from Avignon to Rome.
*January 27
** The Bad Parliament begins sitting in England. Influenced by Prince John of Gaunt, it undoes the work done by the Good Parliament, the previous year, to reduce corruption in the Royal Council. It also introduces a poll tax.
** Fourteen-year-old Mary of Sicily succeeds her father, Frederick III the Simple.
*February - The Pope's representative in northern Italy, Robert of Geneva (the future antipope Clement VII), pillages Cesena and 4,000 antipapal rebels are massacred.
*March 2 – The Bad Parliament dissolved.
*May
** Continuous riots in Rome induce Pope Gregory XI to move temporarily back to Avignon.
** Władysław II Jagiello succeeds his father, Algirdas, as Grand Duke of Lithuania. Jagiello removes his uncle, Kęstutis, as co-ruler.
*May 22 - Pope Gregory XI issues five Bulls condemning the opinion of John Wycliffe that Catholic priests should live in poverty like the twelve disciples of Jesus.

July - December

*July 16 - Coronation of 10-year-old Richard II, grandson of Edward III. Richard's uncle, John of Gaunt, rules on his behalf until 1381.
*August - the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China scraps the Office of Reports Inspection established in 1370 for a new Office of Transmission, in his efforts to create a more efficient communicatory system in the empire. A month before this he noted that anyone could send petitions to the throne; commoners often did, although the only times their petitions were read aloud to the emperor was when they called for the impeachment of local officials that were not up to par with their official duties.
*October 13 – Richard II’s first parliament meets.
*October 26 - Coronation of Tvrtko I of Bosnia king of Bosnia and Serbia.

Undated

*A sermon by a German monk states "the game of cards has come to us this year" and prohibitions against cards are issued by Prince John of Castile and the cities of Florence and Basel.
* Radu I succeeds Vladislav I as Prince of Wallachia (now southern Romania).
* The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is completed, and becomes the longest arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries
* Sayf ad-Din Berkuk leads a revolt against the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Alah-ad-Din Ali.
* Harihara II succeeds Bukka as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire (now in southern India).
*Informed that Khan Urus of the White Horde has died, Timur of the Timurid Empire sends Tokhtamysh to take the Horde throne, but is defeated by Urus' son, Timur Malik.
* Tran Hien succeeds Tran Kính as King of Vietnam.
* A rebellion against the Majapahit Empire is quashed in Sumatra.

Births

* February 11 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414)
* May 2 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian poet (died 1445)
* August 1 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (died 1433)
* August 30 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (died 1447)
* September 19 - Duke Albert IV of Austria (died 1404)
* December 5 - Jianwen Emperor of China (died 1402)
*"date unknown"
**Louis II of Anjou (died 1417)
**Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (died 1446)
**Ernest, Duke of Austria (died 1424)

Deaths

*January 27 - Frederick III the Simple, King of Sicily
*February 6 - Jeanne de Bourbon, queen of Charles V of France (born 1338)
*April - Guillaume de Machaut, French poet and composer
*April 23 (or July 11 - Richardis of Schwerin, queen consort of Sweden (born 1347)
*May - Algirdas, Grand Prince of Lithuania
*June 21 - King Edward III of England (born 1312)
*December 1 - Magnus II, former King of Sweden (born 1316)
*Ibn Battuta, Moroccan explorer (born 1304)