Events of 1369

• March 14 – Pedro of Castile loses the Battle of Montiel to an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II.

• May – King Charles V of France renounces the Treaty of Brétigny and war is declared between France and England. The French recapture most of Aquitaine.

• December – Financed by Charles V of France, Welshman Owain Lawgoch launches an invasion fleet against the English in an attempt to claim the throne of Wales. A storm causes Owain to abandon the invasion.

• Venice repels a Hungarian invasion.

• Hugues Aubriot founds the Bastille in Paris.

• Tamerlane names the city of Samarkand as the capital of his empire.

• Košice becomes the first town in Europe to be granted its own coat of arms.

• The Turks invade Bulgaria.

• The Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya conquers Cambodia for a second time.

• Duong Nhat Le succeeds Tran Hao as King of Vietnam.

• The Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming Dynasty issues a decree ordering every country magistrate in the empire to open a Confucian school of learning.

Births

• May 28 – Muzio Sforza, condottiero (d. 1424)

• date unknown – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (d. 1414)

• probable – King Constantine I of Georgia (d. c. 1412)

Deaths

• January 17 – King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)

• March 23 – King Pedro of Castile (b. 1334) (murdered after the battle of Montiel)

• August 15 – Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III of England (b. 1311) (dropsy)

• September 12 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (plague) (b. 1345)

• October 3 – Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)

• November 13 – Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick

• date unknown

• * Sir John Chandos, English knight

• * Agnes Dunbar, Countess of Moray

• * Magnus the Pious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

• * Ramathibodi I, first king of Ayutthaya (b. 1314)