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 in topic:
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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
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Year 1374 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- 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).
- 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 Grenada 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.
1374 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1374
MCCCLXXIV
Ab urbe condita
2127
Armenian calendar
823
ԹՎ ՊԻԳ
Bahá'í calendar
-470 – -469
Berber calendar
2324
Buddhist calendar
1918
Burmese calendar
736
Byzantine calendar
6882 – 6883
Chinese calendar
癸丑年閏十一月十八日
(4010/4070-
intercalary 11-18)
— to —
甲寅年十一月廿八日
(4011/4071-11-28)
Coptic calendar
1090 – 1091
Ethiopian calendar
1366 – 1367
Hebrew calendar
5134 – 5135
Hindu calendars
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Vikram Samvat
1429 – 1430
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Shaka Samvat
1296 – 1297
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Kali Yuga
4475 – 4476
Holocene calendar
11374
Iranian calendar
752 – 753
Islamic calendar
775 – 776
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar
3707
Thai solar calendar
1917
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