1366

Year 1366 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1366

* Thomas Fraser obtains lands in Aberdeenshire, upon which he starts the building of a towerhouse that will later be known as Muchalls Castle.
* Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.
* Muhammed V builds the Granada Hospital in Granada (in present-day Spain).
* War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in present-day southern India. Tens of thousands of civilians are massacred by each side.
* Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow & Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.
* Abu Faris Abdul Aziz succeeds assassinated Abu Zayyan as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco.
* The Stella Artois brewery is founded in present-day Belgium.
* The Statutes of Kilkenny are passed in Ireland.
* Zhu Yuanzhang, leader of the Red Turban Rebellion that will overthrow the Yuan Dynasty and establish the Ming Dynasty 2 years later, begins building the walls for a new capital city at Nanjing.

Births

*March 22 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
*July 11 - Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
*August 28 - Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (d. 1421)
*"date unknown"
**Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noblewoman (d. 1425)
**Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (d. 1408)

Deaths

*January 25 - Henry Suso, German mystic
*April 26 - Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
*May 20 - Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)
*October - Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
*"date unknown" - Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia