1370

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The year 1370 is a common year starting on a Tuesday.

Events

10 April: Mongolian leader Tamerlan (Timour Lenk), after murdering his brother-in-law Husayn proclaimed himself king in Balkh and then established his domination over the Kharezm (finally in 1379).
23 May: On the death of the great Khan of the Mongols Toghan Tèmur, his son Ayourchiridhara took the title of emperor in Karakorum, without abandoning the plan to win back China (end of reign in 1378).
June, China: Reform of the Mandarin recruitment system (competition) and restoration of titles of nobility. Prohibited on the secret societies of White Lotus and White Cloud at the end of the month.

7 August: Tlemcen taken by Morocco Mérinides.
25 August - December: negotiation and peace treaty between the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Sultan of Egypt.

9 November: Emir Hafside Abul-Abbas seized Tunis and was declared a Caliph.

Violent famines in India (end of 1395).

Europe
2 January: truce between Jeanne of Naples and Louis of Anjou negotiated by Pope Urban V. Jeanne designates Charles Duras as heir.
: John V Paleologist signed a treaty in Rome with the envoys of the Republic of Venice.
February 17: Teutonic Knights defeat Lithuanians in Sambie.
March 25: Installation at the Palais Royal in Paris of the first public clock in Paris.
22 April: The first stone of the Bastille is laid in Paris.
May 8: Cardinal Jean de Dormans, former bishop of Beauvais, founded the Collège dit de Beauvais in the University of Paris.
24 May: signing of Stralsund peace following Hanse's victory over Denmark. Danes grant the Hanse Teutonic (70 cities) important military and financial privileges on the Sund (free passage in the Detroits). The power of Hanse is at its peak and dominates the Baltic.
24 August: Limoges goes to King Charles V of France.
19 September: Bag of Limoges by the Black Prince who takes over the city: massacre of the "French" garrison. »
September 27: Return of Pope Urban V to Avignon.

October 2 : Bertrand Du Guesclin is named connetable, in the service of King Charles V. He was responsible for hunting the English, thus bringing the Poitou, Saintonge, Guyenne and Normandy under the king's authority.
5 November: Casimir III of Poland dies in Krakow without leaving any direct heir. He appointed his nephew Louis d'Anjou, king of Hungary, to succeed him. End of the Piast dynasty.
17 November: King Louis of Hungary, heir to the crown of Poland, entered Krakow for his coronation. He was elected king by the diet of Poland. It receives a restored Poland but deprived of maritime outlets, always threatened from the outside by the Teutonic order and from the inside by the independence of the high nobility. He managed to maintain the unity of the kingdom, but did not personally govern Poland, and left power to a council of regency presided over by the bishop and the president of Poland