1379

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1340s  1350s  1360s  – 1370s –  1380s  1390s  1400s
Years:	1376 1377 1378 – 1379 – 1380 1381 1382

1379 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1379 MCCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2132
Armenian calendar	828 ԹՎ ՊԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6129
Balinese saka calendar	1300–1301
Bengali calendar	786
Berber calendar	2329
English Regnal year	2 Ric. 2 – 3 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1923
Burmese calendar	741
Byzantine calendar	6887–6888
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4075 or 4015     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4076 or 4016
Coptic calendar	1095–1096
Discordian calendar	2545
Ethiopian calendar	1371–1372
Hebrew calendar	5139–5140
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1435–1436
- Shaka Samvat	1300–1301
- Kali Yuga	4479–4480
Holocene calendar	11379
Igbo calendar	379–380
Iranian calendar	757–758
Islamic calendar	780–781
Japanese calendar	Eiwa 5 / Kōryaku 1 (康暦元年)
Javanese calendar	1292–1293
Julian calendar	1379 MCCCLXXIX
Korean calendar	3712
Minguo calendar	533 before ROC 民前533年
Nanakshahi calendar	−89
Thai solar calendar	1921–1922
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1505 or 1124 or 352     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1506 or 1125 or 353

1379 (MCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1379th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 379th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 14th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1370s decade. As of the start of 1379, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• September 9 – Treaty of Neuberg signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.
• The Venetians and Ottomans invade Constantinople and restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as Byzantine co-emperor but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.
• John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
• Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present-day Armenia.
• Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow raids Estonia.
• Foundation of New College, Oxford.
• Foundation of Wisbech Grammar School in England.

Births

• October 4 – King Henry III of Castile (died 1406)
• Ferdinand I of Aragon (died 1416)
• Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland (approximate date; died 1440)

Deaths

• February 18 – Albert II of Mecklenburg
• May 29 – King Henry II of Castile (born 1334)
• December 16 – John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)
• Aqsara'i, Persian physician