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Events

Politics and world affairs

Republic of Venice
February 5: Five new Provveditores arrive in Crete. They have a free hand to suppress the last remnants of the uprising of the Venetian settlers.
April: The uprising in Crete is finally put down after three years. Leading men of the uprising fall into Venetian hands and are executed.

Crusades
January: The crusade against Alexandria, led by King Peter I of Cyprus, invades and plunders Tripoli and Tartus before the European crusade participants return to their respective homes. Peter I does not try to keep Tripoli or Tartus, especially since the cities have no city walls.

Holy Roman Empire
11 July: With a peace treaty mediated after lengthy negotiations, the Falkenstein feud between Philip VI began in 1364. from the Licher line of the Lords of Falkenstein on the one hand, the Wetterauer Landvogt Ulrich III. of Hanau and the imperial cities of Frankfurt, Friedberg, Wetzlar and Gelnhausen on the other side. The Falkensteiners retain Lich, but without Warnsberg Castle. Hofheim remains with Kurmainz, who conquered the city earlier this year.

Further events in Europe
King Charles II. of Navarra, Geoffrey Chaucer, who is on the diplomatic mission of the English king, and three companions issue a letter of protection, granting them free passage through his kingdom to the Castilian border.

The Kilkenny Statutes are enacted at a meeting of the Irish Parliament in Kilkenny, chaired by the son of King Edward III of England, Lionel, Duke of Clarence. With them, the English crown aims to separate the English upper class from the population of the conquered or still to be conquered lordship of Ireland. Above all, the family mixture of the claimed master and the (explicitly so-called) enemy people should be prevented. By creating as unconnected social spheres as possible, the antagonism between the Gaelic-iroceltic indigenous population on the one hand and the society of the original Anglo-Norman conquerors on the other is to be cemented.

India
The Bahmani Sultanate conquers Warangal.

First documentary mentions
Beavers are mentioned for the first time in documents.

Science and technology
A comet is sighted, which is most likely a 55P/temple Tuttle.

Culture
The Kochbrunnen in Wiesbaden is mentioned for the first time as "Brühborn". It brings together 15 springs and was the centre of the Wiesbadener Trinkkur in the 19th century. The 66 °C hot sodium chloride thermal bath is the most famous spring in the city and provides 346 liters of healing water per minute.

Company
Geoffrey Chaucer marries Philippa Roet, a court lady of the English royal wife Philippa von Hennegau.
In Vadstena, Sweden, the Order of Knights is called by the Most Holy Redeemer and the