1379

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Calendar year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s
Years:	1376 1377 1378 1379 1380 1381 1382

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Minguo calendar

533 before ROC 民前533年
Nanakshahi calendar	−89
Thai solar calendar	1921–1922
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1505 or 1124 or 352     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1506 or 1125 or 353

Year 1379 (MCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar

• May 29 – John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
• June 30 – New College, Oxford, is founded in England by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.
• Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as co-emperor, but is confined to the city of Silivri
  for the remainder of his life.
• Albert III
  retains the title of Duke of Austria.

• Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the
  Kara Koyunlu (Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire), in modern-day Armenia
  .
• Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow raids Estonia.
• In the Hundred Years' War, the French lose control of most of Brittany to the English.^[1]
• Wisbech Grammar School is founded in England.
• Sufid
  Dynasty of Khwarazm

Births

• October 4 – King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
• date unknown
  • Jerome of Prague, Hussite (d. 1416)
  • Empress Zhang (Hongxi) of China (d. 1442)

Deaths

• Albert II of Mecklenburg
  (b. c. 1318)
• May 29 – King Henry II of Castile (b. 1333)^[2]
• November 15 – Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1346)
• December 16 – John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
• date unknown – Aqsara'i, Persian physician

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