1375

1375 (MCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1375th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 375th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 14th century, and the 6th year of the 1370s decade. As of the start of 1375, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• The English, weakened by the plague, lose so much ground to the French that they agree to sign the Treaty of Bruges, leaving them with only the coastal towns of Calais, Bordeaux and Bayonne.
• The Russian town of Kostroma is destroyed by the ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod.
• October 24 – Death of Valdemar IV of Denmark.
• Petru I succeeds his father, Costea, as ruler of Moldavia (now Moldova & eastern Romania).
• The Mamluks from Egypt conquer the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Leo VI of Armenia is imprisoned for several years in Cairo until a ransom is paid by King John I of Castile.
• Mujahid Shah succeeds his father, Mohammad Shah I, as Sultan of the Bahmanid Empire in Deccan, southern India.
• Moscow & Tver sign a truce. Tver agrees to help Moscow fight the Blue Horde.

Births

• Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (approximate date; d.1415)
• Nicolas Grenon, French composer (approximate date; d. 1456)
• Lan Kham Deng, King of Lan Xang 1416-1428 (d. 1428)

Deaths

• July 5 – Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)
• October 24 – King Valdemar IV of Denmark
• December 21 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (born 1313)