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1375| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | c. 1375 | Flanders [Christianity] | The Dutch mystic Gerhard Groot of Deventer forms the Brethren of the Common Life, a religious society of clergy and lay people, at Windesheim. Their teachings, known as the Devotio moderna/Modern Devotion, had an important impact during the 14th and 15th centuries. | | c. 1375 | England [fiction] | The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Mandeville, Knight, a collection of travel tales, appears in England. It claims to have been written by a gouty English knight, Sir John Maundeville (Mandeville), though it is likely that Sir John is the creation of the French chronicler and poet Jean d'Outremeuse. The work first appears in a French text dated about 1357. Popular throughout Europe, the book appears many times in English, notably in a 1496 printing. | | 1375 | England [poetry] | The anonymous Middle English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a chivalric romance, is written. The author may also have written The Pearl about 1370. | | 27 June 1375 | England, France, Flanders [Hundred Years War (1337–1453)] | English and French embassies confer at Bruges, Flanders, and conclude a general treaty of truce. King Edward III of England now holds only Calais, Brest, Bordeaux, and Bayonne in France. | | 21 December 1375 | Italy [births and deaths] | Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet and scholar who, with Petrarch (Petrarca), laid the foundations of Renaissance humanism, author of the Decameron, dies in Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy (c. 62). |
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