Events
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* Hundred Years' War: Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor appoints Edward III of England as a vicar-general of the Holy Roman Empire. Louis supports Edward's claim to the French throne, under the terms of the Treaty of Koblenz. * Philip VI of France besieges Guienne in Southwest Kingdom of France, France, and his navy attacks Portsmouth, Kingdom of England, England. * Ashikaga Takauji is granted the title of ''shōgun'' by the emperor of Japan, starting the Ashikaga Shogunate. * Nicomedia is captured by the Ottoman Empire. * Black Death plague strain originates near Lake Issyk-Kul in modern Kyrgyzstan, according to Syriac language, Syriac tombstone inscriptions and genetic material from exhumed bodies.Births
* January 13 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392) * January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380) * February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of France (d. 1378) * March 23 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, Northern Court emperor during a conflict between two imperial lines (d. 1374) * October 5 – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390) * November 29 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1368) * ''date unknown'' ** George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (d. 1420) ** Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada (d. 1391) ** Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1388) ** Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (d. 1383) ** Margaret de Stafford (d. 1396) ** Tvrtko I of Bosnia (d. 1391)Deaths
* April 8 – Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London * April 24 – Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. c. 1270) * May – John Wishart (bishop), John Wishart, Scottish bishop * May 5 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324) * May 23 – Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (b. 1287) * June 10 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318; d. in battle) * July – Muhammad Khan (Ilkhan), Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch * August 4 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300) * August 17 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301; d. in battle) * August 22 – William II, Duke of Athens (b. 1312) * December 21 – Thomas Hemenhale, Bishop of Worcester * ''date unknown'' ** Alfonso Fadrique, Sicilian noble ** Awhadi Maraghai, Persian poet ** Marino Sanuto the Elder, Venetian statesman and geographer (b. c. 1260) ** Nitta Yoshiaki, Japanese samurai * ''probable'' – Prince Narinaga, Japanese ''shōgun'' (b. 1325)References
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