History
1378
General
Population: 364 Million*
- Religion: Death of Pope Gregory XI
Start of Great Schism when two popes are elected
Public demands Roman Pope, so Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano) at Rome (corrupt and cruel). Declared "not fairly elected" by college of cardinals.
Clement VII (antipope) at Avignon
End of "Babylonian Captivity"
- Deaths: Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg, Pope Gregory XI
Europe
- General: Renewal of Anglo-French war
- Holy Roman Empire: Death of Charles IV of Luxembourg emperor – son Wenceslas IV rules
- Independence for Trubczewsk in the Volga to 1399