1366

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1330s  1340s  1350s  – 1360s –  1370s  1380s  1390s
Years:	1363 1364 1365 – 1366 – 1367 1368 1369

1366 (MCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1366th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 366th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 14th century, and the 7th year of the 1360s decade. As of the start of 1366, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• Thomas Fraser obtains lands in Aberdeenshire, upon which he starts the building of a towerhouse that would later be known as Muchalls Castle.
• Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.
• Muhammed V builds the Granada Hospital in the Granada (in present-day Spain).
• War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in present-day southern India. Tens of thousands of civilians massacred by each side.
• Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow & Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.
• Abu Faris Abdul Aziz succeeds assassinated Abu Zayyan as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco.
• Foundation of the Stella Artois brewery in present-day Belgium.

Births

• March 22 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
• July 11 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (died 1394)
• Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noblewoman (died 1425)
• Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (died 1408)

Deaths

• January 25 – Henry Suso, German mystic
• Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
• Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia