1374

Year 1374 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

* April 23 - In recognition of his services, Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life.
* June 24 - The illness dancing mania begins in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), possibly due to ergotism.
*November 25 - James of Baux succeeds his uncle, Philip II, as Prince of Taranto (now eastern Italy) and titular ruler of the Latin Empire (now northern Greece and western Turkey).
*King U of Goryeo ascends to the throne of Goryeo (now in Korea) after the assassination of King Gongmin.
* Leu Thai becomes King of Sukhothai (now in northern Thailand) after the death of King Lithai.
* Rao Biram Dev succeeds Rao Kanhadev as ruler of Marwar (now the Jodhpur district of India).
* Hasan succeeds his father, Shaikh Uvais, as ruler of the Jalayirid sultanate in present-day Iraq and western Iran. Hasan proves to be an unpopular ruler and is executed in the same year. Hasan's brother, Husain, succeeds him as ruler.
* Musa II succeeds his father, Mari Djata II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire (now Mali & Senegal).
* Robert de Juilly succeeds Raymond Berenger as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
* Princes from the Kingdom of Grenada choose Abu al-Abbas Ahmad to succeed Muhammad as-Said as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco. The Empire is split into the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Marrakech.
* The Château de Compiègne royal residence is built in France.

Births

* April 11 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)
*November 26 - Yury Dmitrievich, Russian grand prince (d. 1434)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (d. 1400)
*"probable"
**Queen Jadwiga of Poland
**King Martin I of Sicily (d. 1409)

Deaths

* March 12 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336).
* June 5/6 - William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury
* June 29 – Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformer
* July 19 - Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
* September - Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1295)
* November 25 - Prince Philip II of Taranto
* December 1 - Magnus Ericson, co-king of Norway and former co-king of Sweden
*"date unknown"
**King Gongmin of Goryeo
**Gao Qi, Chinese poet (born 1336)
**King Lithai of Sukhothai