1372

1372 (MCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1372nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 372nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 14th century, and the 3rd year of the 1370s decade. As of the start of 1372, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1340s  1350s  1360s  – 1370s –  1380s  1390s  1400s
Years:	1369 1370 1371 – 1372 – 1373 1374 1375

1372 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1372 MCCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2125
Armenian calendar	821 ԹՎ ՊԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6122
Balinese saka calendar	1293–1294
Bengali calendar	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) 4068 or 4008     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4069 or 4009
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

• In this year, the city of Aachen, Germany begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini date to a few of its coins. It is the first city in the world to do so.
• The French & the Castilians defeat the English in the naval Battle of La Rochelle. The French gain control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340.
• 4 year old Muhammad as-Said succeeds his father, Abu l-Fariz Abdul Aziz I, as Marinids Sultan of Morocco.
• Welshman Owain Lawgoch makes a second attempt to take the throne of Wales from the English. Whilst attacking the island of Guernsey, Owain abandons the invasion in order to fight the English at the Battle of La Rochelle.
• Newaya Maryam succeeds his father, Newaya Krestos, as ruler of Ethiopia.
• Peace declared between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
• The Kingdom of Chūzan (now in southern Japan) enters tributary relations with Ming Dynasty China.

Births

• March 13 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, son of king Charles V of France (died 1407)
• Makhdoom Ali Mahimi, Sufi saint from India
• Princess Beatrice of Portugal, future Queen of Portugal and Queen-consort of Castile (died 1410)

Deaths

• August 31 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (born 1301)
• Eleanor of Lancaster, English noblewoman (born 1318)
• Bagrat I the Little, King of Georgia