1378

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1340s  1350s  1360s  – 1370s –  1380s  1390s  1400s
Years:	1375 1376 1377 – 1378 – 1379 1380 1381

1378 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1378 MCCCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2131
Armenian calendar	827 ԹՎ ՊԻԷ
Assyrian calendar	6128
Balinese saka calendar	1299–1300
Bengali calendar	785
Berber calendar	2328
English Regnal year	1 Ric. 2 – 2 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1922
Burmese calendar	740
Byzantine calendar	6886–6887
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4074 or 4014     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4075 or 4015
Coptic calendar	1094–1095
Discordian calendar	2544
Ethiopian calendar	1370–1371
Hebrew calendar	5138–5139
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1434–1435
- Shaka Samvat	1299–1300
- Kali Yuga	4478–4479
Holocene calendar	11378
Igbo calendar	378–379
Iranian calendar	756–757
Islamic calendar	779–780
Japanese calendar	Eiwa 4 (永和４年)
Javanese calendar	1291–1292
Julian calendar	1378 MCCCLXXVIII
Korean calendar	3711
Minguo calendar	534 before ROC 民前534年
Nanakshahi calendar	−90
Thai solar calendar	1920–1921
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1504 or 1123 or 351     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1505 or 1124 or 352

1378 (MCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1378th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 378th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 14th century, and the 9th year of the 1370s decade. As of the start of 1378, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• March – In England, John Wycliffe tries to promote his ideas for Catholic reform by laying his theses before parliament and making them public in a tract. He is subsequently summoned before Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon of Sudbury, at the episcopal palace at Lambeth to defend his actions.
• September 20 – Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at Fondi and elect Clement VII as antipope and establish a rival papal court at Avignon. This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the Western Schism.

Undated

• Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV meets with his nephew Charles V of France to publicly celebrate the friendship between their two nations.
• Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV dies and is succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus.
• The Papacy makes a permanent move back from Avignon to Rome, ending the Avignon Papacy.
• Pope Gregory XI dies. Due to riots in Rome calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who were mostly French, elect Pope Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano, Archbishop of Bari) as the 202nd Pope.
• France, Aragon, Castile and León, Cyprus, Burgundy, Savoy, Naples and Scotland choose to recognise Antipope Clement VII. Denmark, England, Flanders, the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, northern Italy, Ireland, Norway, Poland and Sweden continue to recognise Pope Urban VI.
• Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow & Vladimir resists a small invasion by the Mongol Blue Horde.
• Revolt of the Ciompi – discontent wool carders briefly take over the government of Florence. For the first time, a European government represents all social classes.
• Tokhtamysh dethrones Timur Malik as Khan of the White Horde.
• Kara Osman establishes the Turkomans of the White Sheep dynasty at Diyarbakır in present-day southeast Turkey.
• The Turks capture the town of Ihtiman in west Bulgaria.
• An English spy assassinates Owain Lawgoch, claimant to the throne of Wales and ally of France.
• Gian Galeazzo Visconti succeeds his father, Galeazzo II Visconti, as ruler of Milan.
• Uskhal Khan succeeds his father, Biligtü Khan, as ruler of the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia.
• Balša II succeeds his father, Durađ I, as ruler of Zeta (now Montenegro).
• Tai Bian succeeds Zhao Bing Fa as King of Mong Mao (now northern Myanmar).
• Appearance of Halley's Comet.
• Da'ud Shah succeeds his assassinated nephew, Aladdin Mujahid Shah, as Bahmani Sultan in present-day southern India. Da'ud Shah is assassinated in the same year and is succeeded by Mohammed Shah II.

Births

• August 16 – Hongxi Emperor of China (died 1425)
• October 24 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (died 1402)
• December 31 – Pope Callixtus III (died 1458)
• Robert Campin, Flemish painter (died 1444)
• Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (died 1446)
• Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal smith (died 1455)
• John Hardyng, English chronicler (died 1465)

Deaths

• February 6 – Jeanne de Bourbon, queen of Charles V of France (born 1338)
• March 27 – Pope Gregory XI
• May 29 – King Henry II of Castile (born 1334)
• July – Owain Lawgoch, titular Prince of Wales – assassinated (born circa 1330)
• August 16 – San Rocco di Venezia, patron saint of pestilence (born 1340)
• November 29 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1316)
• Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan