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Year 1374 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 Milíč of Kroměříž, 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
date unknown
*King Gongmin of Goryeo
*Gao Qi, Chinese poet (born 1336)
*King Lithai of Sukhothai
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