1377

January–December

• January 17 - Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back from Avignon to Rome.
• January 27 - The Bad Parliament begins sitting in England. Influenced by John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, it undoes the work done by the Good Parliament, the previous year, to reduce corruption in the Royal Council. It also introduces a poll tax.
• February - The Pope's representative in northern Italy, Robert of Geneva, pillages Cesena, and 4,000 antipapal rebels are massacred.
• March 2 - The Bad Parliament dissolves.
• May
• * Continuous riots in Rome induce Pope Gregory XI to move temporarily back to Avignon.
• * Władysław II Jagiełło succeeds his father, Algirdas, as Grand Duke of Lithuania. Jagiello removes his uncle, Kęstutis, as co-ruler.
• May 22 - Pope Gregory XI issues five Bulls condemning the opinion of John Wycliffe, that Catholic priests should live in poverty, like the twelve disciples of Jesus.
• July 16 - Richard II, the 10-year-old grandson of Edward III, is crowned. A minority government is established, and a series of continual councils rule on his behalf until 1381.
• July 27 - Fourteen-year-old Maria of Sicily succeeds her father, Frederick the Simple.
• August - The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China scraps the Office of Reports Inspection for a new Office of Transmission, in his efforts to create a more efficient communicatory system in the empire. A month before this he noted that anyone could send memorials to the throne; commoners often did, although the only times their petitions were read aloud to the emperor, was when they called for the impeachment of local officials, that were not up to par with their official duties.
• August 2 - Battle on Pyana River: The Russians are defeated, while their commander drowns in the river.
• October 13 - Richard II's first parliament meets.
• October 26 - Tvrtko I of Bosnia is crowned.

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• A sermon by a German monk states "the game of cards has come to us this year", and prohibitions against cards are issued by Prince John of Castile, and the cities of Florence and Basel.
• Radu I succeeds Vladislav I as Prince of Wallachia.
• The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is completed, and becomes the longest arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries.
• Sayf ad-Din Barquq leads a revolt against the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, Alah-ad-Din Ali.
• Harihara II succeeds Bukka Raya I, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire.
• Informed that Khan Urus of the White Horde has died, Timur of the Timurid Empire sends Tokhtamysh to take the Horde throne, but is defeated by Urus' son, Timur Malik.
• King U of Goryeo adopts the Ming calendar, and begs to be invested by the Hongwu Emperor.
• Tran Hien succeeds Tran Kính, as King of Vietnam.
• A rebellion against the Majapahit Empire is quashed in Sumatra.