1379

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Events

• September 9 – Treaty of Neuberg signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.
• The Venetians and Ottomans invade Constantinople and restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as Byzantine co-emperor but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.
• John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
• Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present-day Armenia.
• Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Estonia.
• Foundation of New College, Oxford.
• Foundation of Wisbech Grammar School in England.

Births

• October 4 – King Henry III of Castile (died 1406)
• Ferdinand I of Aragon (died 1416)
• Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland (approximate date; died 1440)

Deaths

• February 18 – Albert II of Mecklenburg
• May 29 – King Henry II of Castile (born 1334)
• December 16 – John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
• Aqsara'i, Persian physician