1374

This article is about the year 1374.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1340s  1350s  1360s  – 1370s –  1380s  1390s  1400s
Years:	1371 1372 1373 – 1374 – 1375 1376 1377

1374 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1374 in poetry

1374 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1374 MCCCLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2127
Armenian calendar	823 ԹՎ ՊԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6124
Bengali calendar	781
Berber calendar	2324
English Regnal year	47 Edw. 3 – 48 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1918
Burmese calendar	736
Byzantine calendar	6882–6883
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4070 or 4010     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4071 or 4011
Coptic calendar	1090–1091
Discordian calendar	2540
Ethiopian calendar	1366–1367
Hebrew calendar	5134–5135
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1430–1431
- Shaka Samvat	1296–1297
- Kali Yuga	4475–4476
Holocene calendar	11374
Igbo calendar	374–375
Iranian calendar	752–753
Islamic calendar	775–776
Japanese calendar	Ōan 7 (応安７年)
Julian calendar	1374 MCCCLXXIV
Korean calendar	3707
Minguo calendar	538 before ROC 民前538年
Thai solar calendar	1916–1917

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

Events

January–December

• 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).

Date unknown

• 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 Granada 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.

• A form of the Great Plague returns to Europe

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)
• Konrad of Megenberg, historian (b. 1309)

probable

• Queen Jadwiga of Poland
• King Martin I of Sicily (d. 1409)

Deaths

• March 12 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (b. 1336).
• June 5 or June 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, king of Sweden 1319–1364 (drowned) (b. 1316)

date unknown

• King Gongmin of Goryeo
• Gao Qi, Chinese poet (born 1336)
• King Lithai of Sukhothai