1379
1379 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1340s 1350s 1360s – 1370s – 1380s 1390s 1400s |
| Years: | 1376 1377 1378 – 1379 – 1380 1381 1382 |
Events
- 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.
- John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
- 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)
- Ferdinand I of Aragon (died 1416)
- Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland (approximate date; died 1440)
Deaths
- February 18 – Albert II of Mecklenburg
- May 29 – King Henry II of Castile (born 1334)
- December 16 – John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
- Aqsara'i, Persian physician