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The 1380s

453 sourced entries across 10 years, inside the 14th century. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.

1380 CE49 entries

  • January 30 – Simon Sudbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, becomes the new Lord Chancellor of England, succeeding Baron Scrope of Bolton. Sudbury will continue in office as both archbishop and lord chancellor until his assassination on June 14, 1381, during the Peasants' Revolt.
  • April 17 – The impostor Tagaris follows his donation of relics to Ancona with what he claims is one of the nails from the True Cross upon which Jesus of Nazareth had been crucified in the first century, as well as a foot from the skeleton of Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus. His claims are believed by the leaders of Ancona and he is appointed as the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by Pope Urban VI .
  • November 7 – Sheikh Karimul Makhdum, a Syrian Sunni Muslim missionary, brings the religion of Islam to the Philippine Islands by establishing a mosque on the island of Tawi-Tawi. The date of November 7 is now celebrated annually as a holiday in the Bangsamoro region of the Philippines.

1381 CE42 entries

  • June 12 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels from Kent and Essex, led by Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, meet at Blackheath. There the rebels are encouraged by a sermon, by renegade priest John Ball.
  • June 15 – Peasants' Revolt: During further negotiations, Wat Tyler is murdered by the King's entourage. Noble forces subsequently overpower the rebel army. The rebel leaders are eventually captured and executed and Richard II revokes his concessions. The revolt is discussed in John Gower's Vox Clamantis and Froissart's Chronicles.
  • October 10 – The Church of Koratty Muthy is established by Roman Catholic missionaries and local Christians on the Indian subcontinent at Koratty in the Venadu kingdom, now part of the Kerala state in India.

1382 CE55 entries

  • April 9 – Ming dyansty China, ruled by the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, completes the conquerst of Yunnan the remaining portion of China still occupied by the Yuan dyansty in what is now the Yunnan province. General Fu Youde leads 250,000 Ming Chinese troops overwhelming the smaller Yunnan force of Mongol and Chinese Muslim troops.
  • August 10 – The Treaty of Elvas is signed between King Fernando of Portugal and King Juan of Castile to end the Third Fernandine War. Under the agreement, Portugal ends its alliance with England and joins Castile and France in the Hundred Years' War, and recognizes the jurisdiction of the antipope Clement VII over the Portuguese church. Castile returns all Portuguese prisoners of war and ships, and gives Almeida and Miranda back to Portugal. Finally, King Fernando's daughter Beatriz marries King Juan's son Ferdinand.
  • October 20 – Winchester College is founded in England.

1383 CE48 entries

  • March 16 – In France, Évrart de Trémaugon, an adviser to King Charles V, interrupts the King's dinner at the Louvre Palace and accuses Guillaume de Chamborant, the King's equerry, of the murder of Evrart's brother Yvon.Famiglietti 2015, vol.1, p.279. Charges are eventually dropped against Chamborant 16 months later and Evrart is ordered on July 30, 1484, to pay 500 Livres tournois, equivalent to more than 404 kilograms of fine silver, to Chamborant.
  • May 17 – King John I of Castile and Leon marries Beatrice of Portugal.
  • October 22 – King Fernando I of Portugal dies, and is succeeded by his 10-year-old daughter, Beatriz. Her mother, Fernando's widow Leonor Teles, proclaims herself the regent A period of civil war and anarchy, known as the 1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum, begins in Portugal, due to Beatriz being married to Juan King of Leon and Castile.

1384 CE44 entries

  • February 7 – Nicholas Brembre, Lord Mayor of London after defeating John Northampton's bid for re-election, arranges to have Northampton arrested on charges of sedition.
  • February 11 – In protest of former mayor Northampton's arrest in London, local businessman and shoe manufacturer John Constantine incites other business owners to close their shops and to disrupt commerce. Constantine is then arrested and beheaded at Cheapside for leading an insurrection, and his severed head is placed on the Newgate entrance to the London Wall.
  • August 16 – The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore paper money notes, while fighting over them. Under the law, this is considered an act of destroying stamped government documents, which is to be punished by a caning with a bamboo rod of 100 strokes. However, the Emperor decides to pardon them, on the grounds that it was unintentional.

1385 CE47 entries

  • June 10 – English invasion of Scotland (1385): Preparing to lead invade Scotland as soon as the truce between England and Scotland expires on July 15, King Richard II of England assembles an army at Nottingham.
  • August 31 – King Richard II of England begins an invasion of Scotland. The English burn Holyrood and Edinburgh, but return home without a decisive battle.
  • September 18 – Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha, near Berat.

1386 CE38 entries

  • March 4 – Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania is crowned Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland, beginning the Jagiellonian dynasty.
  • July 9 – John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and oldest surviving son of the late King Edward II of England, departs from England with 5,000 men and a fleet of English and Portuguese ships to make good his claim to the throne of Castile. John, whose nephew became King Richard II upon Edward's death, claims the Castilian throne by right of his marriage to Constanza of Castile in 1371.
  • October 18 – Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), the oldest in Germany, is founded at the behest of Rupert I, Elector Palatine, by charter of Pope Urban VI.

1387 CE35 entries

  • March 25– The Battle of Margate, a naval battle off the coast of England at Margate, ends with the England navy, commanded by the Earl of Arundel, victorious over a combined fleet of shipsf rom the Kingdom of France, the Crown of Castile and the County of Flanders.
  • April 12– Admiral Arundel of the English Navy brings 68 captured ships from Margate battle to the port of Orwell.
  • June 2 – John Holland, a maternal half-brother of Richard II of England, is created Earl of Huntingdon.

1388 CE44 entries

  • February 3 – The five Lords Appellant, regents for King Richard II open a new session of the House of Commons and the House of Lords with the goal of exposing King Richard's attempt to make peace with France in order to drive them from power. After hearing the case of the Lords Appellant, the Parliament convicts five of King Richard's associates— Lord Chancellor Michael de la Pole; London's former Lord Mayor Nicholas Brembre; Duke of Ireland Robert de Vere; Archbishop of York Alexander Neville; and Chief Justice Robert Tresilian— guilty of ""living in vice, deluding the said king" and embracing the mammon of iniquity for themselves".
  • May 21 – Permission to create the University of Cologne is granted to the city of Köln by Pope Urban VI. By the 21st century it will be the largest university in Germany.
  • December 12 – Maria of Enghien sells the Lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.

1389 CE51 entries

  • June 15 – At the Battle of Kosovo, The Ottoman Empire and the Serbs fight an inconclusive clash, with both sides suffering heavy losses. Both Sultan Murad I and Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic are killed in the battle.
  • July 12 – English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, who has recently started writing of the works that will be assembled in The Canterbury Tales, is given a job to supplement his income as a writer when he is appointed by King Richard II of England as Clerk of the King's Works, overseer of the construction of royally-sponsored buildings.
  • August 23 – Isabeau of Bavaria, who married King Charles V of France on July 17, 1385, is crowned as Queen consort of France.(1978).