This page relates to the year 1372 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

• Beginning of the reign of Néouya-Maryam, king of Ethiopia (fine in 1382). It reigns in peace because the Moslems of the Ifat are divided by quarrels of succession.

Asia

• the Chinese cross the Mongolian border but are crushed in the area of the Toula by large the khan Ayourchiridhara.

Europe

• June 23rd: The Castilians destroy the English fleet with the broad of the La Rochelle.
• July 17th: Secret treaty between Jean IV of Brittany and Edouard III of England. He is discovered in October by the French.
• August 13rd: Of Guesclin takes Poitiers.
• August 23rd: Of Guesclin takes La Rochelle.
• October 5th: The Prince Noir gives up the principality of Guyenne.

• New failure of Olgierd of Lithuania in front of Moscow.

Art & culture

• Ibn Khaldoun share to insulate itself close to the modern city to Frenda, in Algeria, and devotes four years to the writing of its Muqaddima , ( Prolégomènes ) which will be used as introduction to its universal history Kitab Al-ibar ( Livre of the considerations on the history of the Arabs, Persan and Berber the ).
• Jean Froissart enters the orders and is ordered priest of the village of Lestines, in the diocese of Liege. Between 1372 and 1384, it composes a novel arthurien, in worms, heading Méliador and works with its Chronique of France, of England, of Scotland and Spain .

Births in 1372

Death in 1372

• August 24th: Casimir III of Poméranie, duke of Szczecin.

• November 17th: Jehan de Mandeville, with Liege. Doctor and traveller, he would have visited the East. The relation of its voyage, the Livre of the wonders of the world , where precise observations and legends mix, is written in French and is translated into several languages. She is a great popular success, in particular in Germany, as from the 15th century.
• Milič de Kromĕřiz. He denounced in Czech the richnesses of the Church of Bohemia and announced the arrival of the Antéchrist.
• Jean I {{er}} the Scholastic, duke of Oświęcim.

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