title: 1366
text: # 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
  