1378

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Years: 1375 1376 1377 - 1378 - 1379 1380 1381
Decades: 1340s 1350s 1360s - 1370s - 1380s 1390s 1400s
Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

1378 by topic
Politics
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**1378 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1378 MCCCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2131
Armenian calendar	827 ԹՎ ՊԻԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-466 – -465
Buddhist calendar	1922
Chinese calendar	4014/4074-12-2 (丁巳年十二月初二日) — to — 4015/4075-12-12 (戊午年十二月十二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1370 – 1371
Hebrew calendar	5138 – 5139
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1433 – 1434
- Shaka Samvat	1300 – 1301
- Kali Yuga	4479 – 4480
Holocene calendar	11378
Iranian calendar	756 – 757
Islamic calendar	779 – 780
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2038 (皇紀2038年)
- Jōmon Era	11378
Julian calendar	1423
Korean calendar	3711
Thai solar calendar	1921
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[edit] Events

March - John Wyclif tries to gain public favour in England by laying his theses before parliament and making them public in a tract. He appears before Simon of Sudbury at the episcopal palace at Lambeth to defend himself.
Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV meets with his nephew Charles V of France to publicly celebrate the friendship between their two nations.
Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV dies and is succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus.
The Papacy makes a permanent move back from Avignon to Rome, ending the Avignon Papacy.
Pope Gregory XI dies. Due to riots in Rome calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who were mostly French, elect Pope Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano, Archbishop of Bari) as the 202nd Pope.
September 20 - Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at Fondi and elect Clement VII as antipope and establish a rival papal court at Avignon. This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the Western Schism.
France, Aragon, Castile and León, Cyprus, Burgundy, Savoy, Naples and Scotland choose to recognise Antipope Clement VII. Denmark, England, Flanders, the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, northern Italy, Ireland, Norway, Poland and Sweden continue to recognise Pope Urban VI.
Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow & Vladimir resists a small invasion by the Mongol Blue Horde.
Revolt of the Ciompi - discontent wool carders briefly take over the government of Florence. For the first time, a European government represents all social classes.
Tokhtamysh dethrones Timur Malik as Khan of the White Horde.
Kara Osman establishes the Turkomans of the White Sheep dynasty at Diyarbakır in present-day southeast Turkey.
The Turks capture the town of Ihtiman in west Bulgaria.
An English spy assassinates Owain Lawgoch, claimant to the throne of Wales and ally of France.
Gian Galeazzo Visconti succeeds his father, Galeazzo II Visconti, as ruler of Milan.
Uskhal Khan succeeds his father, Biligtü Khan, as ruler of the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia.
Balša II succeeds his father, Durađ I, as ruler of Zeta (now Montenegro).
Tai Bian succeeds Zhao Bing Fa as King of Mong Mao (now northern Myanmar).
Appearance of Halley's Comet.
Da'ud Shah succeeds his assassinated nephew, Aladdin Mujahid Shah, as Bahmani Sultan in present-day southern India. Da'ud Shah is assassinated in the same year and is succeeded by Mohammed Shah II.