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

Events of 1370

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

  • Duke William of Austria (d. 1406)
  • Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (d. 1460).
  • Joanna of Navarre, daughter of Charles II of Navarre (d. 1437)
  • John Lydgate, English Benedictine monk and poet (d. 1451)
  • Queen Mary of Sicily (d. 1402)
  • Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (d. 1443)
  • King Olaf IV of Norway (d. 1387)
  • John VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1408)
  • Jan Piast, Duke of Ziebice (d. 1428)
  • Jan Sindel, Polish scientist (d. 1443)
  • Jan Zizka, leader of the Hussites (d. 1424)
  • Pawel Wlodkowic, Polish scholar (d. 1435)
  • Leonardo Bruni, Florentine rhetorician, historian
  • Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder

    Deaths

  • December 19 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
  • Casimir III of Poland (b. 1310)
  • Ukhaatu Khan, Grand khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1320)
  • Shi Nai'an, Chinese author (b. 1296)Further Information

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