1366

{{C14 year in topic}}Year 1366 (MCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

March 13 – Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.
October 12 – Frederick III of Sicily forbids decorations on synagogues.
October 26 – Comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle passes {{convert|0.0229|AU|km mi|abbr=on|lk=on}} from Earth.{{cite web |title=Closest Approaches to the Earth by Comets |publisher=Minor Planet Center |url=https://minorplanetcenter.net//iau/lists/ClosestComets.html |access-date=2012-06-28}}

War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India.
Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.
Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz I of Morocco succeeds assassinated Abu Zayyan as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco.
The Statutes of Kilkenny are passed, aiming to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland.
The Den Hoorn brewery is founded at Leuven in the Low Countries. In 1717 this will be renamed the Brouwerij Artois, and later releases a beer in 1926 named Stella Artois.
Zhu Yuanzhang, leader of the Red Turban Rebellion that will overthrow the Yuan dynasty and establish the Ming dynasty two years later, begins building the walls for a new capital city at Nanjing.
Thomas Fraser obtains lands in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) on which he starts the building of a towerhouse, that will later be known as Muchalls Castle.

May 11 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394){{cite book |last1=Andrew |first1=M. |title=The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9780230273962 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LhsCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|language=en}}
August 28 – Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (d. 1421)
date unknown
Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noblewoman (d. 1425)
Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (d. 1408)
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Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (d.1399){{cite web |title=Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/eleanor-de-bohun-duchess-of-gloucester |website=Westminster Abbey |access-date=18 March 2019 |language=en}}

January 25 – Henry Suso, German mystic (b. c. 1295)
April 26 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
May 20 – Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)
Summer – Ming Yuzhen, founder of the rebel empire of Daxia (b. 1331)
October 14 – Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (b. 1287){{EI2 | last = Rikabi | first = J. | title = Ibn Nubāta | volume= 3 | pages = 900–901 | doi =10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3325}}
October 18 – Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala