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 from Earth.

Date unknown

• 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.

Births

• May 11 Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394)

• August 28 Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (d. 1421)

date unknown

• Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk, English noblewoman (d. 1425)

• Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (d. 1408)

Approximate

• Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (d.1399)

Deaths

• 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)

• October 18 Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala

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