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1378

Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

Decades: 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s - 1370s - 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s

Years: 1373 1374 1375 1376 1377 - 1378 - 1379 1380 1381 1382 1383

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• March - John Wyclif tried to gain public favour by laying his theses before parliament, and then made them public in a tract. He appeared before Simon of Sudbury at the episcopal palace at Lambeth to defend himself.
• April 9 - Pope Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano, archbishop of Bari) elected. In the Great Schism the papacy moves from Avignon to Rome, ending the Avignon Papacy.
• September 20 - Unhappy with Pope Urban's behavior, a group of cardinals meet at Fondi and elect Clement VII antipope.
• Dmitri Donskoi of Vladimir defeated a small Mongol army.

Births

• December 31 - Pope Callixtus III
• Lorenzo Ghiberti, a sculptor and metal smith.

Deaths

• February - Queen Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of King Charles V of France
• March 27 - Pope Gregory XI
• Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
• King Enrique of Castile

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