1372

Year 1372 (MCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

1372 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1372 MCCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2125
Armenian calendar	821 ԹՎ ՊԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6122
Balinese saka calendar	1293–1294
Bengali calendar	778–779
Berber calendar	2322
English Regnal year	45 Edw. 3 – 46 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1916
Burmese calendar	734
Byzantine calendar	6880–6881
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4069 or 3862     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4070 or 3863
Coptic calendar	1088–1089
Discordian calendar	2538
Ethiopian calendar	1364–1365
Hebrew calendar	5132–5133
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1428–1429
- Shaka Samvat	1293–1294
- Kali Yuga	4472–4473
Holocene calendar	11372
Igbo calendar	372–373
Iranian calendar	750–751
Islamic calendar	773–774
Japanese calendar	Ōan 5 (応安５年)
Javanese calendar	1285–1286
Julian calendar	1372 MCCCLXXII
Korean calendar	3705
Minguo calendar	540 before ROC 民前540年
Nanakshahi calendar	−96
Thai solar calendar	1914–1915
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1498 or 1117 or 345     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1499 or 1118 or 346

Events

January–December

• March 12 – Saint Bridget sets out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, staying in Cyprus until May 12. In August, she is in Bethlehem where she sees a vision of Jesus' birth. In September, she sets sail for Naples, where she arrives in December.^[1]
• May – Owain Lawgoch makes a second attempt to take the throne of Wales, sailing with French support from Harfleur. Whilst attacking the island of Guernsey, he abandons the invasion in order to fight for France at La Rochelle.
• June 22 – Battle of La Rochelle: The French and the Castilians defeat the English.^[2] The French gain control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340.
• July 10 – The Treaty of Tagilde is signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and representatives of John of Gaunt of England, marking the beginning of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, which remains in effect into the 21st century.^[3]
• November 9 – Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.

Date unknown

• Encounter of Sintra: Twenty Portuguese knights rout four hundred Castilian infantrymen of the country.
• Peace is declared between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
• The Kingdom of Chūzan (in modern-day southern Japan) enters tributary relations with Ming dynasty China.
• Four-year-old Muhammad as-Said succeeds his father, Abu l-Fariz Abdul Aziz I, as Marinid Sultan of Morocco.
• Newaya Maryam succeeds his father, Newaya Krestos, as ruler of Ethiopia.
• The city of Aachen, Germany, begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini date to a few of its coins, the first city in the world to do so.

Births

• February 18 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (d. 1449)^[4]
• March 13 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, son of King Charles V of France (d. 1407)
• September 8 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (d. 1400)
• October – John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1389)
• approximate date
  • Helena Dragaš, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1450)
  • Olivera, daughter of Lazar of Serbia and wife of Bayezid I

Deaths

• January 11 – Eleanor of Lancaster, English noblewoman (b. 1318)
• March 19 – John II, Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1321)
• March 21 – Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden
• August 24 – Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1348)
• August 31 – Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
• date unknown – Bagrat I of Imereti, King of Georgia
• date unknown – Newaya Krestos, Emperor of Ethiopia