1370
Year 1370 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–December
- May 24 - The Treaty of Stralsund ends the war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League.
- October 20 - Philip of Anjou, Titular Emperor of Constantinople, marries Elisabeth of Slavonia, and Margareta of Bavaria.
- December 20 - Pope Gregory XI succeeds Pope Urban V, as the 201st pope.
Date unknown
- The steel crossbow is first used as a weapon of war.
- Xian City is fortified against invasion.
- Timur completes his conquest of Central Asia and parts of Persia, establishing the Timurid Empire.
- Trần Nghệ Tông deposes Dương Nhật Lễ as emperor of Đại Việt, now Vietnam.
- For the second time since 1368, the Grand Duchy of Moscow attacks Tver, which again counter-attacks, with the aid of the Grand Duchy 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.
- The Siege of Limoges is launched.
Births
- April 11 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony
- July 23 - Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder, Italian humanist
- date unknown
- * Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary
- * Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist
- * John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor
- * King Olav IV of Norway
- * Jan Piast, Duke of Ziebice
- * Jan Sindel, Polish scientist
- probable
- * Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, Duchess regent of Brittany
- * John Lydgate, English Benedictine monk and poet
- * Paulus Vladimiri, Polish scholar
- * Duke William of Austria
Deaths
- May 31 - St. Vitalis of Assisi
- November 5 - Casimir III of Poland
- December 19 - Pope Urban V
- date unknown
- * Simeon Uroš, Emperor of Serbs and Greeks and half-brother of Stefan Dušan
- * Vedanta Desika, Hindu poet
- * Yang Weizhen, Chinese painter
- * Ukhaantu Khan, Emperor Huizong of Yuan, last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
- probable date
- * Empress Gi of China
