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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1366 MCCCLXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2119 |
| Armenian calendar | 815 ԹՎ ՊԺԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6116 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1287–1288 |
| Bengali calendar | 773 |
| Berber calendar | 2316 |
| English Regnal year | 39 Edw. 3 – 40 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1910 |
| Burmese calendar | 728 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6874–6875 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4062 or 4002 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4063 or 4003 |
| Coptic calendar | 1082–1083 |
| Discordian calendar | 2532 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1358–1359 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5126–5127 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1422–1423 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1287–1288 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4466–4467 |
| Holocene calendar | 11366 |
| Igbo calendar | 366–367 |
| Iranian calendar | 744–745 |
| Islamic calendar | 767–768 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōji 5 (貞治５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1279–1280 |
| Julian calendar | 1366 MCCCLXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3699 |
| Minguo calendar | 546 before ROC 民前546年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −102 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1908–1909 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1492 or 1111 or 339 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1493 or 1112 or 340 |
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
[change | change source]- 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
[change | change source]- 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
[change | change source]- 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