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Calendar year
Year 1378 (MCCCLXXVIII common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar .
Events
January – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor , visits his nephew Charles V of France in Paris, to celebrate publicly the friendship between their two nations.January 13 – Balša II succeeds his brother, Durađ I , as ruler of Lower Zeta (modern-day Montenegro ).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 the Archbishop of Canterbury , Simon of Sudbury , at the episcopal palace at Lambeth , to defend his actions.April 9 – Following the death of Pope Gregory XI , and riots in Rome calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who are mostly French, elect Pope Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano, Archbishop of Bari ) as the 202nd Pope .April 16 – Da'ud Shah succeeds his assassinated nephew, Aladdin Mujahid Shah, as ruler of the Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India . Da'ud Shah is assassinated in the following month, and is succeeded by Mohammad Shah II.May – Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür succeeds his father, Biligtü Khan Ayushiridara , as ruler of the Northern Yuan dynasty in Mongolia .July 21 – Ciompi Revolt : Discontented wool carders briefly take over the government of Florence .August 4 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti succeeds his father, Galeazzo II Visconti , as ruler of Milan .August 11 – Battle of the Vozha River : Prince Dmitri Ivanovich of Moscow resists a small invasion by the Mongol Blue Horde under Mamai .September – A contract is set up between Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton and the mason Johan Lewyn, for the construction of Bolton Castle in the north of England.September 20 – Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at Fondi , 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 , also known as the Great Schism.[ 1] 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 .November 10 – Estimated appearance date of Halley's Comet .[ 2] November 29 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor , dies in Prague . He is succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus , as King of Bohemia , but the office of Holy Roman Emperor falls into abeyance, until Charles's son Sigismund is crowned in 1433 .
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Births
Deaths
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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