- 1375
Year 1375 was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1375
*
April 14 - TheMamluks fromEgypt complete their conquest of theArmenian Kingdom of Cilicia .Levon V Lusignan of Armenia is imprisoned for several years inCairo until a ransom is paid by KingJohn I of Castile .
*October -Margaret I of Denmark becomes Regent of Denmark after the death of her father Valdemar IV.Undated
*
Coluccio Salutati is appointedChancellor of Florence .
*Heirin-ji Temple is built nearTokyo .
*Hundred Years' War : The English, weakened by the plague, lose so much ground to the French that they agree to sign theTreaty of Bruges , leaving them with only the coastal towns ofCalais ,Bordeaux andBayonne .
* Petru I succeeds his father, Costea, as ruler ofMoldavia (nowMoldova & easternRomania ).
* TheRussia n town ofKostroma is destroyed by the ushkuinik pirates fromNovgorod .
* Mujahid Shah succeeds his father, Mohammad Shah I, as Sultan of the Bahmanid Empire inDeccan , southernIndia .
* Moscow &Tver sign a truce. Tver agrees to help Moscow fight theBlue Horde .
* InNanjing , capital of theMing Dynasty ofChina , a bureau secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Ru Taisu, sends a 17,000 character-long memorial to the throne, to be read aloud to theHongwu Emperor . By the 16,370th character, the emperor has been offended by several passages, and has Ru Taisu summoned to court and flogged for the perceived insult. The next day, having had the remaining characters read to him, he likes four of Ru's recommendations, and instates these in reforms. Ru is nevertheless castigated for having forced the emperor to hear thousands of characters before getting to the part with true substance. The last 500 characters are elevated in court as the model-type memorial that all officials should aspire to create while writing their own.Births
*
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (approximate date; d.1415 )
*Nicolas Grenon , French composer (approximate date; d.1456 )
*Lan Kham Deng , King ofLan Xang 1416 -1428 (d. 1428)Deaths
*
May 16 -Liu Ji , Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (b.1311 )
*July 5 -Charles III of Alençon , French archbishop (b.1337 )
*October 24 - KingValdemar IV of Denmark
*December 21 -Giovanni Boccaccio , Italian writer (b.1313 )
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.