1370

Year 1370 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1370

* May 24 - The Treaty of Stralsund ends the war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League.
* October 20 - Philip of Anjou, Titular Emperor of Constantinople, marries Elisabeth of Slavonia, daughter of Stephen, duke of Transylvania and Slavonia, and Margareta of Bavaria.
* December 20 - Pope Gregory XI succeeds Pope Urban V as the 201st pope.

Undated

* The steel crossbow is first used as a weapon of war.
* Carthusian monks build the Charterhouse in London.
* Xian City (Chang'an) is fortified against invasion.
* Timur completes his conquest of Central Asia and parts of Persia, establishing the Timurid Empire.
* Tran Phu deposes Duong Nhat Le as King of Vietnam.
* For the second time since 1368, Moscow attacks Tver, which again counter-attacks with the aid of Lithuania and the Blue Horde.
* Casimir III of Poland is succeeded jointly by his sister, Elisabeth of Kujavia, and her son, Louis I of Hungary, beginning the rule of Poland by the Capet-Anjou family.

Births

*April 11 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1428)
*July 23 - Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder, humanist (d. 1444/1445)
*"date unknown"
**Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (d. 1443)
**Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (d. 1460)
**John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1408)
**King Olav IV of Norway (d. 1387)
**Jan Piast, Duke of Ziebice (d. 1428)
**Jan Sindel, Polish scientist (d. 1443)
*"probable"
**Joanna of Navarre, daughter of Charles II of Navarre (d. 1437)
**John Lydgate, English Benedictine monk and poet (d. 1451)
**Paulus Vladimiri, Polish scholar (d. 1435)
**Duke William of Austria (d. 1406)

Deaths

*May 31 - St Vitalis of Assisi (b. 1295)
*November 5 - Casimir III of Poland (b. 1310)
*December 19 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
*"date unknown"
**Vedanta Desika, Hindu poet (b. 1269)
**Yang Weizhen, painter (b. c. 1296)
**Ukhaantu Khan, Emperor Huizong of Yuan, Grand khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1320)