October 28: French diplomat Guillaume de Grimoard, the papal legate to Naples for Pope Innocent VI, is secretly elected as the new Pope, but not informed until being summoned by the Cardinals to Avignon; he takes the name Pope Urban V.
February 7– General Hu Dahai, the chief military adviser to the Chinese warlord Zhu Yuanzhang, the future Emperor of China and the ruler of most of the Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, is assassinated by General Jiang Ying after being lured to the city of Jinhua in the Zhejiang on the pretext of reviewing the troops. Distracting Hu, Jiang kills him with an iron hammer, as well as killing two other visitors, Hu Guanzhu and Geng Zaicheng.
February 15– King Haakon VI of Norway, son of King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden, proclaims himself king of Sweden in opposition to his father. However, later in the year, father and son are reconciled and rule Sweden together.
The nation of Champa (now in southern Vietnam), ruled by King Po Binasuor, raids the Hóa Châu prefecture of Đại Việt (now in northern Vietnam), then withdraws.
April 25– After the former Sultan Muhammad VI of Granada arrives in the Crown of Castile, King Pedro I not only denies him asylum, but has him executed.
May 1–Ulrich IV, co-ruler with his brother Eberhard II as Count of Württemberg in Germany, is forced by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV to resign after his insistence that Württemberg be divided between the two counts. As compensation, Ulrich receives Hohenneuffen Castle and several towns and castles.
June– Under the terms of the will of Sir John de Wingfield (died 1361), the church of St. Andrew and a college of priests are founded in Wingfield, Suffolk, England.
July–September
July 3–Ahi Ayna, the Emir of Erzincan and conqueror of much of eastern Turkey, the Kingdom of Georgia and the Kingdom of Trebizond and reportedly dies as a martyr after Pir Husayn's invasion of the emirate.
October 28–Guillaume de Grimoard, the apostolic legate to the Kingdom of Naples, is selected in absentia as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church after 30 days of disagreements in Avignon on a successor, in that none of the proposed candidates receives the require two-thirds (14 of 20) necessary votes. Rather than informing Grimoard of his election, the cardinals send a message to Florence, stating that they wish to consult with him at Avignon, in that Grimoard (who wishes to keep the papacy at Avignon rather than returning it to Rome) might be detained by authorities in Italy. Grimoard reaches Avignon after nine days of travel from Florence, and takes the papal name of Pope Urban V.
October 30– The English Parliament ends its session after 17 days, and royal assent is given by King Edward III to laws passed therein, including the Purveyance Acts 1363, limiting government purchases to the King and Queen (or authorized representatives), and penalties for purveyors who violate the law, as well as the Parliament Act 1363 ("A parliament shall be holden once in the year.")
November 6–Pope Urban V is crowned after his arrival in Avignon and his consecration as a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, after having been elected on October 28.
December 5– The Battle of Launac is fought in France between Jean II, Count of Armagnac and Gaston III Febus, Count of Foix. Not only does Febus triumph in battle, supported by a archers for Foix who fire a volley of arrows into the Armagnac cavalry, Count Jean II and most of the Armagnac leaders are captured as prisoners of war and held for a total ransom of 600,000 gold florins, each with 3.5g of pure gold, equal to 2,100 kilograms (more than 74,000 ounces) of gold. Of this, 300,000 florins are paid for the release of Count Jean.
The Öræfajökull volcano erupts in Iceland, resulting in the destruction of the district of Litlahérað by flood and tephra fall.
The English Hospice of the Most Holy Trinity and St Thomas is founded in Rome. It goes on to become the English College, a centre for training English priests in Rome.
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