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# 1366

Year 1366 (MCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) 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 0.0229 AU (3,430,000 km; 2,130,000 mi) 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 1708 this will be renamed the Brouwerij Artois, and later releases a beer 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
   * Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, 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
