Year 1369 (MCCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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January–December
- February – Vladislav I of Wallachia liberates Vidin from the Hungarians, resulting in the restoration of Ivan Sratsimir on the throne of Bulgaria, in the autumn.
- March 14 – Battle of Montiel: Pedro of Castile loses 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.
- September – Hundred Years' War: The French burn Portsmouth, England;[1] the English raid Picardy and Normandy.[2]
- November 30 – Hundred Years' War: Charles V of France recaptures most of Aquitaine from the English.[2]
- 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.[3] A storm causes Owain to abandon the invasion.
Dates unknown
- The Ottoman Empire invades Bulgaria.
- Venice repels a Hungarian invasion.
- The Thai Ayutthaya Kingdom conquers Cambodia for a second time.[citation needed]
- Charles V of France orders Hugues Aubriot to construct the fortress of the Bastille in Paris.
- Timur 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 Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty issues a decree ordering every country magistrate in the empire to open a Confucian school of learning.
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Births
- January/February – Pope Martin V (d. 1431)
- May 28th – Muzio Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1424)
- date unknown – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (d. 1414)
- probable – King Constantine I of Georgia (d. c. 1412)
- approximate – Jan Hus, Czech priest and philosopher (d. 1415)
- approximate – Margareta, Swedish Sami missionary (d. 1425)
Deaths
- January 17 – King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
- March 23 – King Peter of Castile (b. 1334) (murdered after the battle of Montiel)
- August 15 – Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (b. 1311) (dropsy)
- October 3 – Margaret, 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)
References
- ^ "Dockyard Timeline". Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 06–108. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Pierce, Thomas Jones (1959). "OWAIN ap THOMAS ap RHODRI (' Owain Lawgoch '; died 1378), a soldier of fortune and pretender to the principality of Wales". s-OWAI-APT-1378.