History
1377
General
Population: 363 Million*
- Religion: Pope of Gregory XI returns to Rome from France – end of Babylonian captivity
Popes Urban VI and Pope Clement VII elected
- Deaths: Edward III of England (stroke), Poet Guillaume de Machaut,
Europe
- England: Death of Edward III of England - son Richard II rules with John of Gaunt as regent and Thomas of Gloucester assisting
Order of the Garter - Richard and Henry Bolingbroke initiated – they promised never to fight – Henry IV
- German States: Playing cards displace dice in Germany
- Italian States: Catherine of Siena persuades pope to return - Papacy moves back to Rome