1378

Events

• March - John Wyclif tried to gain public favour by laying his theses before parliament, and then made them public in a tract. He appeared before Simon of Sudbury at the episcopal palace at Lambeth to defend himself.
• April 9 - Pope Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano, archbishop of Bari) elected. In the Great Schism the papacy moves from Avignon to Rome, ending the Avignon Papacy.
• September 20 - Unhappy with Pope Urban's behavior, a group of cardinals meet at Fondi and elect Clement VII antipope.
• Dmitri Donskoi of Vladimir defeated a small Mongol army.

Births

• December 31 - Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
• Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal smith (d. 1455)

Deaths

• February 6 - Queen Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
• March 27 - Pope Gregory XI
• May 29 - King Enrique of Castile (b. 1334)
• November 29 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)

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