1379

Year 1379 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

*May 29 - John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
*September 9 - Treaty of Neuberg signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.
* The Venetians and Ottomans invade Constantinople and restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as Byzantine co-emperor but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.
* Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present day Armenia.
* Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Estonia.
*Foundation of New College, Oxford.
*Foundation of Wisbech Grammar School in England.

Births

* October 4 - King Henry III of Castile (died 1406)
*"date unknown" - Jerome of Prague, Hussite (died 1416)

Deaths

*February 18 - Albert II of Mecklenburg (born c. 1318)
*May 29 - King Henry II of Castile (born 1334)
*November 15 - Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (born 1346)
*December 16 - John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
*"date unknown" - Aqsara'i, Persian physician