Year 1374 (MCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 23 – In recognition of his services, Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life.
• June 24 – The illness dancing mania begins in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), possibly due to ergotism.
• November 25 – James of Baux succeeds his uncle, Philip II, as Prince of Taranto (now eastern Italy) and titular ruler of the Latin Empire (now northern Greece and western Turkey).
• King U of Goryeo ascends to the throne of Goryeo (now in Korea) after the assassination of King Gongmin.
• Leu Thai becomes King of Sukhothai (now in northern Thailand) after the death of King Lithai.
• Rao Biram Dev succeeds Rao Kanhadev as ruler of Marwar (now the Jodhpur district of India).
• Hasan succeeds his father, Shaikh Uvais, as ruler of the Jalayirid sultanate in present-day Iraq and western Iran. Hasan proves to be an unpopular ruler and is executed in the same year. Hasan's brother, Husain, succeeds him as ruler.
• Musa II succeeds his father, Mari Djata II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire (now Mali & Senegal).
• Robert de Juilly succeeds Raymond Berenger as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
• Princes from the Kingdom of Grenada choose Abu al-Abbas Ahmad to succeed Muhammad as-Said as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco. The Empire is split into the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Marrakech.
• The Château de Compiègne royal residence is built in France.

Births

• April 11 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)
• November 26 – Yury Dmitrievich, Russian grand prince (d. 1434)
• date unknown – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (d. 1400)
• probable
  • Queen Jadwiga of Poland
  • King Martin I of Sicily (d. 1409)

Deaths

• March 12 – Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336).
• June 5/6 – William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury
• June 29 ? Jan Milí? of Krom??í?, Czech priest and reformer
• July 19 – Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
• September – Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1295)
• November 25 – Prince Philip II of Taranto
• December 1 – Magnus Ericson, co-king of Norway and former co-king of Sweden (drowned) (b. 1316)
• date unknown
  • King Gongmin of Goryeo
  • Gao Qi, Chinese poet (born 1336)
  • King Lithai of Sukhothai

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