date: June 25

text: June 25 – Queen Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)


date: September 22

section: Births

text: September 22 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)

source_section: Births


text: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (d. 1415)


text: Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English


date: January 16

section: Deaths

text: January 16 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)

source_section: Deaths


date: February

text: February – Ibn Kathir, Mamluk Islamic scholar (b. 1301)


date: July 23

text: July 23 – Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)


date: November 3

text: November 3 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (b. 1343)


date: December 7

text: December 7 – Rafał of Tarnów, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)


text: Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor


text: Tiphaine Raguenel, Breton astrologer (b. c. 1335)


text: Constantine IV, King of Armenia (assassinated)


date: March 20

section: Geopolitics & Diplomacy

text: March 20 – In a meeting at Dax in what is now the département of Landes, Gaston III of Foix, overlord in France of multiple territories in the Pyrenees as Count of Foix and Viscount of Béarn forms an alliance with England's John of Gaunt

source_section: Events › January–March


date: April 12

text: April 12 – At Almazán, now part of Spain but at the time a town in the Kingdom of Castile and León, a peace agreement is executed by King Enrique II of Castile and King Pedro IV of Aragon, with the two monarchs agreeing to the wedding of Enrique's son and Pedro's daughter.

source_section: Events › April–June


date: August 18

text: August 18 – King Lajos of Hungary pledges his infant daughter, Princess Hedwig, to marriage to Wilhelm of Habsburg, the four-year-old son of Leopold III, Duke of Austria, as part of an alliance between Austria and Hungary.

source_section: Events › July–September


date: August 27

text: August 27 – In France, after 14 years as territory of the Kingdom of England, the village of Martel, Lot is retaken by Bertrand du Guesclin, "The Eagle of Brittany".


date: February 3

section: Conflict & Security

text: February 3 –After invading Cyprus, the Republic of Genoa bombards the city of Kyrenia, but the Cypriots repel the invasion and force the Genoese to retreat to Nicosia.


date: March 3

text: March 3 – Genoa makes a second assault on Kyrenia in Cypturs by land and sea and overcomes the defenders.


date: September 12

text: September 12 – King Jayasthiti Malla of Nepal leads soldiers into battle against the Kingdom of Patan and captures its capital, Bhadagon, as well as imprisoning and killing 53 of the Patan leaders.


date: October 8

text: October 8 – Shaikh Hasan Jalayir became the ruler of the Jalayirid Sultanate, in what is now Iraq, as the eldest son of the late Shaykh Uways Jalayir, who had been Sultan since 1356, but would reign for only one day.

source_section: Events › October–December


date: October 27

text: October 27 – King Gongmin of Goryeo is assassinated by several men who invade the royal palace at Songdo, enter the King's private chamber and hack him to death with swords. King Gongmin is succeeded by U of Goryeo as ruler of Goryeo (now part of South Korea).


text: Rao Biram Dev succeeds Rao Kanhadev as ruler of Marwar (the modern-day Jodhpur district of India).

source_section: Events › Date unknown


text: Princes from the Kingdom of Granada 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 Marrakesh.


text: Musa II succeeds his father, Mari Djata II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire (modern-day Mali and Senegal).


date: November 25

section: Exploration & Expansion

text: November 25 – James of Baux succeeds his uncle, Philip II, as Prince of Taranto (modern-day eastern Italy) and titular ruler of the Latin Empire (northern Greece and western Turkey).


date: January 17

section: Religion & Belief

text: January 17 – King Federico of Sicily swears his allegiance to Pope Gregory XI as part of the Treaty of Villeneuve after the Pope's recognition of him as the sovereign.


date: April 8

text: April 8 – Pope Gregory XI issues the papal bull Salvator humani generis, condemning 14 articles of the Sachsenspiegel, challenging canon law.


date: April 15

text: April 15 – The Council of Narbonne is convened for the first time since 1261 by orders of Pope Gregory XI, and will publish 28 canons of Roman Catholic law.


date: April 23

text: April 23 – On Saint George's Day, in recognition of services, King Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day, for the rest of his life.


date: May 20

text: May 20 – Edward the Black Prince, eldest son and heir apparent to England's King Edward III, presides over a council of bishops and nobles at Westminster on Whitsunday to review a demand by Pope Gregory XI for a subsidy from England to help the Papal States in the war against the Republic of Florence. In his letter, the Pope asserts his right as Lord Spiritual and refers to himself as "Lord of all". The English nobles conclude, and the bishops agree, that the Kingdom of England will not be subject to the Pope's authority.


date: October 9

text: October 9 – Hussain Jalayir was installed as the new ruler of the Jalayirid Sultanate after he and the other emirs arrested and executed Hussain's older brother, the Sultan Hasan, who had reigned for only one day.


date: December 18

text: December 18 – Alexander Neville is installed in England as the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of York.


text: Shaikh Hasan Jalayir succeeds his father, Shaykh Uways Jalayir, as ruler of the Jalayirid Sultanate in modern-day Iraq and western Iran. Hasan proves to be an unpopular ruler and is executed on October 9 and succeeded by his brother, Shaikh Hussain Jalayir.


text: Robert de Juilly succeeds Raymond Berenger as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.


section: Technology & Infrastructure

text: The Château de Compiègne royal residence is built in France.


date: February

section: Health & Medicine

text: February – In what is now Hanoi in Vietnam, the Emperor Trần Duệ Tông of Đại Việt issues decrees establishing an imperial examination for civil servants.


date: June 24

text: June 24 – The illness dancing mania begins in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), possibly due to ergotism.


text: A form of the Great Plague returns to Europe.


section: Crime & Justice

text: January 17 – In Italy, at Padua, Alvise Forzatè is arrested on charges of treason and conspiracy with his nephew Filippo Forzate, in 1373, to assassinate Francesco I da Carrara, Lord of Padua. The two men are beheaded one week later on January 24.


date: February 11

section: Climate & Environment

text: February 11 – In Germany, the Rhine river rises high enough in the Mosel River Valley during a flood that horses reportedly drown in the streets at Koln


date: April 11

text: April 11 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)


date: November 26

text: November 26 – Yury Dmitrievich, Russian grand prince (d. 1434)


text: King Martin I of Sicily (d. 1409)


date: February 16

text: February 16 – Robert de Juilly becomes the new Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller upon the death of Raymond Berengar.


date: March 12

text: March 12 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (b. 1338).


text: April 23 – Casimir IV becomes the new Duke of Pomerania upon the death of his father Bogislaw V, while Bogislaw's nephew, Bogislaw VI becomes Prince of Rügen.


date: June 5

text: June 5 or June 6 – William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury


date: June 29

text: June 29 – Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformer


date: July 19

text: July 19 – Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)


date: July 26

text: July 26 – Levon of Lusignan arrives at Sis, capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and now a set of ruins near the town of Kozan, Adana in Turkey, to take the Cilician throne left vacant by the death of King Constantine IV. Marie of Korikos, Constantine's widow, has been ruling as the regent and supports Levon's the election by Cilician nobles.


date: September

text: September – Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1295)


date: October 27

text: October 27 – King Gongmin of Goryeo (b. 1330)


date: November 25

text: November 25 – Prince Philip II of Taranto


date: December 1

text: December 1 – Magnus Eriksson, king of Sweden (b. 1316)


text: date unknown – Konrad of Megenberg, historian (b. 1309)


text: date unknown – Gao Qi, Chinese poet (born 1336)


date: February 7

text: February 7 – In what is Myanmar, King Swa Saw Ke of Ava declares that occupiers from the neighboring Shan State of Möng Mao have been driven out of the kingdom, and a monument is inscribed at the capital, Inwa.


date: December 28

text: December 28 – King Edward III summons the English Parliament to assemble at Westminster on April 28, 1376.


text: Petru succeeds as Voivode (ruler) of Moldavia (modern-day Moldova & eastern Romania). He is the first ruler from the dynastic House of Bogdan.


date: March 31

text: March 31 – In the Principality of Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal (now part of Russia), the Grand Prince Dmitry of Suzdal oversees the massacre of the Tatar prisoners of war who had been captured during the Blue Horde's unsuccessful attempt by Sary-Aka to incite a rebellion against the principality's domination by Moscow.


date: April 14

text: April 14 – The Mamluks from Egypt complete their conquest of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. King Levon V is imprisoned for several years in Cairo, until a ransom is paid by King John I of Castile.


date: May 1

text: May 1 – The third war between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire as the 40,000 Hungarian troops, led by King Lajos of Hungary depart from Várad (now Oradea in Romania) and march into the Principality of Wallachia, whose ruler, Vladislav, has recently changed his alliance from Hungary to the Ottoman sultanate.


date: July 3

text: July 3 – The fortress of St. Sauveur le Viconte surrenders to a French fleet commanded by Jean de Vienne after a siege of more than six months.


date: September 4

text: September 4 – In the Duchy of Aquitaine, now part of France but at the time ruled by the King of England, the civic leaders of the town of Soule sign an agreement with Gaston III of Foix, popularly known as "Fébus", for his protection against raids from John of Gaunt.


text: Approximate date – Battle of Gardiki: The Principality of Achaea defeats the Despotate of the Morea.


text: The Grand Duchy of Moscow and Tver sign a truce. Tver agrees to help Moscow fight the Blue Horde.


text: The Russian town of Kostroma is destroyed by the ushkuynik pirates from Novgorod.


date: February 13

text: February 13 – Pope Gregory XI issues the bull Debitum pastoralis offici, establishing a second ecclesiastical province in the Kingdom of Poland, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halych.


date: May 4

text: May 4 – Simon Sudbury, the Catholic Bishop of London becomes the new Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the Kingdom of England, upon his appointment by Pope Gregory XI following the death almost a year earlier of the Archbishop William Whittlesey. Sudbury will preside for six years until his assassination in 1381.


date: July 24

text: July 24 – Despite an appeal by Pope Gregory XI to cities in Tuscany to remain allied to the Catholic Church in a war with the Republic of Florence, the city of Pisa enters a defensive alliance with the Visconti family of Florence and supplies are sent by Florence for lance-bearing soldiers, as well as archers and infantry as part of a federation of Tuscan communes.


date: August 8

text: August 8 – In Switzerland, the Roman Catholic bishop Guichard Tavel becomes a victim of the long-standing feud between the Tavel family and the de la Tour family. Antoine de la Tour and a group of soldiers enter the Soie Castle (now in the Canton of Valais), ostensibly to arrest Bishop Tavel. The la Tour gang drags the Bishop up to the top of the castle walls and throws him off to his death.


date: December 2

text: December 2 – With the threat of the Russian Orthodox believers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania being converted to the Roman Catholic Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Philotheos Kokkinos, creates the Orthodox metropolis of Lithuania with the approval of the other bishops at the Council of Constantinople. Philotheos consecrates Cyprian as the first Orthodox Metropolitan of Lithuania and designates Cyprian will be the successor to Alexius II, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia.


date: December 20

text: December 20 – Pope Gregory XI designates nine new cardinals at Avignon, having appointed 21 new cardinals to supplement the 20 who had been living when he became Pope. Among those selected are Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor, who becomes the second antipope at Avignon during the Western Schism between Avignon and Rome.


text: Heirin-ji Temple is founded near Tokyo.


date: June 27

text: June 27 – Hundred Years' War: The English, weakened by the plague, lose so much ground to the French that they agree to sign the Treaty of Bruges, leaving them with only the coastal towns of Calais, Bordeaux and Bayonne.


date: July 15

text: July 15 – During a plague in England, Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, sends a call for prayers to all churches, asking that believers "pour out unceasing prayers to The Most High for the cessation of this pestilence or epidemic and for the tranquility of peace, and to entreat mercy of Him with a humble heart," and adds "For prayer is an immediate defence, an immolation of the enemy, a solace to angels and a pleasing sacrifice to God, and assiduous appeals for mercy made by a just man very often carry great power."


date: June 26

text: June 26 – Shortly after an earthquake in Japan, the Southern Court, ruled by Emperor Chōkei, changes the name of the Bunchū era, and the Tenju era begins.


date: January 30

section: Culture & Society

text: January 30 – (28th day of 12th month of Bunchu 3) Emperor Go-En'yū is enthroned in Kyoto as Emperor of Northern Japan, after having succeeded his father, Emperor Go-Kōgon, in 1374.


date: March 4

text: March 4 – Under an agreement between King Lajos of Hungary and Leopold III, Duke of Austria, Ludvik's one-year-old daughter, Princess Jadwiga, is betrothed to Leopold's four-year-old son Wilhelm of Habsburg.


date: June 18

text: June 18 – In Spain, the eldest son of Henry II of Castile, Prince Juan of Trastámara marries the daughter of King Pedro of Aragon, Princess Leonor of Aragon as part of a peace agreement between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon. The marriage takes place at Soria, a town on the Douro river, the border between the two kingdoms. Juan will become King of Aragon in 1379 and Leonor the Queen consort.


date: November 12

text: November 12 – At Brno, now in the Czech Republic, Jobst of Luxembourg (Jošt Lucemburský) becomes the new margrave of Moravia, succeeding his father Jan Jindřich Lucemburský.


text: Coluccio Salutati is appointed Chancellor of Florence.


date: October

text: October – Joanna of Aragon, Countess of Foix, Aragonese throne claimant (d. 1407)


text: Nicolas Grenon, French composer (approximate date; d. 1456)


text: Lan Kham Deng, King of Lan Xang 1416–1428 (d. 1428)


text: Johannes Abezier (1375–1424), Roman Catholic religious and political leader of the Teutonic Knights, over Polish territory


text: Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (approximate date; d. 1415)


date: April 16

text: April 16 – John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1347)


date: April 21

text: April 21 – Elisabeth of Meissen, Burgravine consort of Nuremberg (b. 1329)


date: May 16

text: May 16 – Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (b. 1311)


date: July 5

text: July 5 – Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)


date: September 1

text: September 1 – Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (b. 1336)


date: October 19

text: October 19 – Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1340)


date: October 24

text: October 24 – Margaret I of Denmark becomes Regent of Denmark after the death of her father, Valdemar IV.


text: October 24 – King Valdemar IV of Denmark


text: November 12 – John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (b. 1322)


date: December 21

text: December 21 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (b. 1313)


date: December 25

text: December 25 – Queen Joanna of Naples signs a marriage contract for the fourth time, agreeing to be married to Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. Queen Joanna's first three husbands (Andrew of Calabria, King Louis I of Naples and the Margrave James IV of Majorca) had all died, in 1345, 1362 and 1375, respectively.


text: Margaret Drummond, dowager queen consort of Scotland (b. c.1340)


text: Adityawarman, king of Malayapura


text: Presumed death of Tenoch, ruler of the Mexica; he is succeeded by Acamapichtli who becomes first tlatoani (ruler) of the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan and founder of the Aztec imperial dynasty.


date: March 12

text: March 12 – The Treaty of Bruges, signed on June 27, 1375 between England and France to end hostilities in the Hundred Years' War for a year, is extended by agreement to June 24, 1377.


date: April 28

text: April 28 – The Good Parliament, so called because its members attempt to reform the corrupt Royal Council, begins in England .


date: July 10

text: July 10 – The Good Parliament is dissolved (at this time, it is the longest Parliament to have sat in England).


date: January

text: January – In what is now Myanmar Ma Sein of Toungoo, the Viceroy of Taungoo who had been appointed by the King of Binnya U of Hanthawaddy to replace the assassinated Viceroy Pyanchi, is murdered near Pyay while trying to forment a rebellion against the Kingdom of Ava.


date: February 26

text: February 26 – The Böse Fasnacht, a riot in the Swiss city of Basel, breaks out during a tournament at a carnival and numerous people are killed, including several of the soldiers of the Duke of Austria, Leopold III. The city council arrests and executes 12 perpetrators, but Duke Leopold proceeds with placing the city under stricter control.


date: July 6

text: July 6 – The Swiss city of Basel is placed under an imperial ban by the Habsburg dynasty's Leopold III, Duke of Austria because of the February 26 riot.


date: August 12

text: August 12 – With the help of the Genoese, Byzantine co-emperor Andronicus IV Palaeologus invades Constantinople and dethrones his father, John V Palaeologus, as co-emperor. John V Palaeologus is taken prisoner.


date: February 12

text: February 12 – English mercenary John Hawkwood, condottiero for Pope Gregory XI in the War of the Eight Saints against the Republic of Florence, arrives at Faenza to suppress a potential revolt against the papal governor. He and his soldiers, who were not paid by the Pope, go on to loot the town instead of protecting it.


date: March 31

text: March 31 – Pope Gregory XI excommunicates all members of the government of the Republic of Florence, and places the city under an interdict.


date: June 10

text: June 10 – Wenceslaus the Idle, son of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is elected King of the Romans by the prince-electors.


date: June 18

text: June 18 – Saint Catherine of Siena, now the Roman Catholic patron saint of Italy, visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon in France, to attempt to persuade him to make peace with Florence, and move the Papacy back to Rome.


text: July 6 – Wenceslaus the Idle is crowned King of the Romans at a ceremony in the Aachen Cathedral.


date: September 13

text: September 13 – Pope Gregory XI departs from Avignon in France to begin his journey to Rome in an attempt to make peace between the Republic of Florence and the Papal States.


date: September

text: September – John of Gaunt summons religious reformer John Wyclif to appear before the Royal Council.


date: October 7

text: October 7 – King Edward III of England makes out his Last Will and Testament, formally declaring his grandson Prince Richard as his successor, describing him as "Next we give and leave to our future heir, on whom may God confer his saving Grace, Richard, namely the son of Edward of honoured memory lately prince of Wales our firstborn son".


date: October 12

text: October 12 – Pope Gregory XI and several cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church depart on a ship from the port of Marseille in France, and encounter severe storms before arriving in Genoa. He will finally arrive in Rome on January 17, 1377.


date: January 23

text: January 23 – In the Holy Roman Empire, Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Elector of Saxony, marries Cecilia da Carrara, daughter of Francesco I da Carrara, Lord of Padua.


date: June 7

text: June 7 – The day before his death, Prince Edward of Wales, heir to the English throne and known as "The Black Prince" summons his father, King Edward III, and brother, John of Gaunt, and makes them swear to uphold the claim to the throne of his son Richard. Edward is the first "English" Prince of Wales (as opposed to Welsh) not to become King of England.


date: November 20

text: November 20 – Richard of Bordeaux, son of the Black Prince, is created Prince of Wales in succession to his father.


date: December 25

text: December 25 – John of Gaunt presents his nephew, Richard of Bordeaux, to the feudatories of the realm and swears to uphold Richard's right to succeed Edward III.


date: November 9

text: November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (d. c. 1409)


text: Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1425)


text: Gihwa, scholar in Korean Buddhism (d. 1433)


text: Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada (d. 1417)


date: January 24

text: January 24 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader


date: February 19

text: February 19 – Jan III becomes the new Duke of Oświęcim in Poland upon the death of his father, Jan II of Oświęcim.


date: April 6

text: April 6 – Przecław of Pogorzela, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (b. 1310)


date: May 3

text: May 3 – Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.


date: May 30

text: May 30 – Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon, French countess regent


date: June 8

text: June 8 – Edward the Black Prince, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1330)


date: July 22

text: July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)


date: September 30

text: September 30 – Adelaide of Vianden, German countess


date: October 28

text: October 28 – Pope Gregory XI and his cardinals sail out of the Bay of Genoa toward Corneto. Several cardinals become seriously ill, including Cardinal de Narbonne, who disembarks at Pisa and dies there.


date: January 27

text: January 27 – The "Bad Parliament", the 48th and last to be convened during the reign of King Edward III of England, begins its session with the goal of repealing most of the acts of the 1376 Parliament. Influenced by John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and son of King Edward, it undoes the work done by the Good Parliament, the previous year, to reduce corruption in the Royal Council. For the first time, the leader of the members of the House of Commons has a title, as Sir Thomas Hungerford, Gaunt's steward, is selected as the first "Speaker of the House of Commons".


date: March 2

text: March 2 – The Bad Parliament dissolves and King Edward III gives royal assent to measures that roll back the 1376 legislation that he had been forced to agree to. He also approves the Bad Parliament's passage of a poll tax of four pennies for every male voter at least 14 years old, an attempt by the House of Commons to expand voting to the lower economic classes in return for expanding the tax burden from property owners to include those citizens who did not own property.


date: March 13

text: March 13 – At Thang Long, capital of Dai Viet (now Hanoi, capital of the Republic of Vietnam), Tran Phe De succeeds his late father, Tran Due Tong as the Emperor of Dai Viet. However, the real power remains with Nghe Tong, the regent for Phe De.


date: June 24

text: June 24 – The Caroline War, which had been fought for six years from 1369 until the Treaty of Bruges on June 27, 1375, resumes between the kingdoms of England and France as the treaty expires. The war, a dispute over the control of Aquitaine, will last until 1389.


date: August 4

text: August 4 – The members of England's House of Commons and House of Lords are directed, in the name of the new King Richard II, to assemble at Westminster on October 13.


date: October 13

text: October 13 – Richard II of England's first parliament assembles for a session of almost two months. The House of Commons members elect Peter de la Mare as the Speaker of the House.


date: December 5

text: December 5 – The English Parliament adjourns and laws passed therein are given royal assent by Queen Joan of Kent, regent for King Richard II. Among the laws enactted are the Purveyance Act ("Prelants shall have their action of trespass against purveyors offending"), the Arrest of Clergy Act (setting "the penalty for arresting of priests during divine service.") and the Villanies Act ("Commissions shall be awarded to enquire of and punish the misbehaviour of villains and land-tenants to their lords").


text: Radu I succeeds Vladislav I as Prince of Wallachia in what is now southern Romania.


date: January

text: January – On the 24th day of the first lunar month of the year Dinh Ty, Tran Due Tong, Emperor of Đại Việt (Vietnam), is killed in the Battle of Đồ Bàn.


date: February 24

text: February 24 – In southern India, Harihara II succeeds Bukka Raya I, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire at its capital, Vijayanagara (now Hampi in Karnataka state).


date: March 15

text: March 15 – Al-Ashraf Sha'ban, the Sultan of Egypt since 1363, is assassinated in Cairo and his 9-year-old son, Al-Mansur Ali II is installed as the new Sultan by the rebel leader Emir Aynabak al-Yalbughawi, who serves as the sultanate's actual leader.


date: March 21

text: March 21 – John Minsterworth, who had plotted a French invasion of the Kingdom of England in conjunction with France's King Charles V, is arrested in Pamplona, and letters to him regarding the proposed invasion are discovered. Minsterworth is taken first to Bordeaux in France and then returned for imprisonment in the Tower of London, where he reveals plans for a May 1378 invasion by the French Navy. Convicted of treason, he is executed on April 12 and his body is drawn and quartered.


date: November 30

text: November 30 – The Battle of Fornarina is fought in Italy when the independent village of San Ginesio (now in Italy's Macerata province) is invaded by mercenaries from the larger city of Fermo from a neighboring province. As the mercenaires cross through an unguarded and open gate, a baker in the middle of baking bread hears the troops approach, throws hot ashes into the first line of soldiers, and alerts the Ginosan troops who drive the invaders up a hill and over the side of a steep cliff.


text: A rebellion against the Majapahit Empire is quashed in Sumatra in what is now Indonesia.


date: January 17

text: January 17 – Pope Gregory XI moves the papacy back from Avignon to Rome.


date: February 3

text: February 3 – The Pope's representative in northern Italy, Robert de Geneve (the future antipope Clement VII), and mercenaries commanded by English soldier of fortune John Hawkwood, complete the three-day pillaging of Cesena in the Papal States, and 4,000 antipapal rebels are massacred.


date: May 22

text: May 22 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls condemning the opinion of John Wycliffe, who has argued that Catholic priests should live in poverty, like the twelve disciples of Jesus.


date: July 16

text: July 16 – Richard II, the 10-year-old grandson of Edward III, is crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey. A minority government is established, and a series of continual councils rule on his behalf until 1381.


date: August 21

text: August 21 – Pope Gregory XI agrees to acknowledge the right of existence of the Bolognese Republic as autonomous within, and separate from, the other Papal States.


date: October 26

text: October 26 – Stefan Tvrtko is crowned as the first King of Bosnia at a monastery in Mileševa on the feast day of Saint Demetrius.


text: A sermon by a German monk states "the game of cards has come to us this year", and prohibitions against cards are issued by Prince John of Castile, and the cities of Florence and Basel.


date: August

text: August – The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China scraps the Office of Reports Inspection (established in 1370) for a new Office of Transmission, in his efforts to create a more efficient communicatory system in the empire. A month before this he noted that anyone could send memorials to the throne; commoners often did, although the only times their petitions were read aloud to the emperor were when they called for the impeachment of local officials who were not up to par with their official duties.Wilkinson, 534–535.


text: The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is completed in Lombardy, and becomes the longest single-arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries.


date: November 16

text: November 16 – The village of Westkerke in the Netherlands, on the island of Wolphaartsdijk is entirely washed away by a flood. Three centuries later, the Dutch will reclaim the land from sea by the building of dikes, Wolphaartsdijk will no longer be an island and the area where Westkerke had existed will be resettled. The remains of the lost village will be found in 1975, almost six centuries after its destruction.


date: April 23

text: April 23 – King Edward III of England formally confers knighthood upon two of his grandsons, both aged 10, Prince Richard of Woodstock (son of King Edward's deceased son Edward the Black Prince), and upon Henry Bolingbroke (son of John of Gaunt), as well as his 13-year-old illegitimate son John de Southeray, and 11-year-old John de Mowbray. Two months later, Prince Richard will become King Richard II upon Edward's death, and in 1399, Bolingbroke will overthrow Richard and becomes King Henry IV.


date: May 24

text: May 24 – Władysław II Jagiełło succeeds his father, Algirdas, as Grand Duke of Lithuania. Jagiello initially shares power with his uncle, Kestutis Giedyminowicz, until 1381.


text: King U of Goryeo adopts the Ming calendar and begs to be invested by the Hongwu Emperor.


date: February 15

text: February 15 – King Ladislaus of Naples (d. 1414)


date: August 1

text: August 1 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)


date: August 20

text: August 20 – Shahrukh Mirza, ruler of Persia and Transoxiania (d. 1447)


date: September 19

text: September 19 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)


date: December 5

text: December 5 – Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)


text: Ernest, Duke of Austria (d. 1424)


text: Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian poet (d. 1445)


text: Stefan Lazarević, Despot of Serbia (d. 1427)


text: Anglesia Visconti, queen consort of Cyprus (d. 1439)


text: Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (d. 1446)


text: Đurađ Branković, Despot of Serbia (d. 1456)


date: January 27

text: January 27 – Frederick the Simple, King of Sicily (b. 1341)


date: March 16

text: March 16 or March 17 – Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke and Foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge (b. c.1303)


text: April 23 or July 11 – Richardis of Schwerin, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1347)


date: April

text: April – Guillaume de Machaut, French poet and composer (b. c. 1300)


date: May

text: May – Algirdas, Grand Prince of Lithuania


date: June 21

text: June 21 – After a reign of more than 50 years, King Edward III of England dies at Sheen Palace in Richmond at the age of 64. His 10-year-old grandson, Prince Richard of Woodstock, succeeds to the throne as King Richard II. Richard is the son of King Edward's oldest son, Edward the Black Prince, who had died a year earlier.


text: June 21 – King Edward III of England (b. 1312)


date: July 27

text: July 27 – Frederick the Simple, who has reigned as King Federico III of Sicily since 1355, dies in Messina at the age of 35 and is succeeded by his 14-year-old daughter, Maria of Aragon, who becomes the Queen of Sicily. The kingdom is administered by a regency of four "vicars", led by Artale I d'Alagona.


date: September 24

text: September 24 – The Spanish Aragonese knight Juan Fernández de Heredia becomes the new Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, who control the island of Rhodes, one of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and the island of Cyprus. Fernandez is elected by his fellow Knights to replace the late Grand Master Robert de Juilly, who had died on July 29.


text: Ibn Battuta, Moroccan explorer (b. 1304)


text: Vladislav I, Prince of Wallachia


text: Informed that Khan Urus of the White Horde has died, Timur of the Timurid Empire sends Tokhtamysh to take the Horde throne, but is defeated by Urus' son, Timur Malik.


date: January 13

text: January 13 – Balša II succeeds his brother, Durađ I, as ruler of Lower Zeta in what is now Montenegro.


date: September 3

text: September 3 – As regent for the 11-year-old King Richard II of England, his mother Joan of Kent summons the English Parliament, directing the members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords to assemble at Gloucester on October 20.


date: October 22

text: October 22 – Sir James Pickering is elected as Speaker of the English House of Commons.


text: Tai Bian succeeds Zhao Bing Fa as King of Mong Mao (modern-day northern Myanmar).


date: April 16

text: April 16 – Mujahid Shah, ruler of the Bahmani Sultanate in what is now the Karnataka state in southern India, is assassinated by his uncle, Da'ud Shah, while traveling between Adoni and Kulbarga. Da'ud and three accomplices enter Mujahid's tent and stab him to death, after which Da'ud declares himself to be the new Sultan of Bahmani.


date: May 21

text: May 21 – After only five weeks as Sultan of Bahmani in India, Da'ud Shah is assassinated while praying in the grand mosque at the capital, Kalaburagi. Da'ud Shah is succeeded by one of his nephews, Mahmud Shah.


date: May 30

text: May 30 – The War of Chioggia begins on the Italian peninsula between the navies of the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa, with a surprise attack on 11 Genoese galleys at Capo d'Anzio by a 10-galley fleet led by Venetian Admiral Vettor Pisani. Venice captures five of the Genoese ships and takes their crews as prisoners of war, including the Genoese admiral, Luigi de' Fieschi.


date: June 17

text: June 17 – In the wake of the recent defeat of the Genoese Navy at the battle of Capo d'Anzio, Domenico di Campofregoso, Doge of the Republic of Genoa, is removed from office by the Genoese Senate and replaced by Nicolò Guarco.


date: July 21

text: July 21 – The Ciompi Revolt becomes violent in the Republic of Florence as a group of 64 discontented wool carders, led by Salvestro de' Medici, briefly take over the government of Florence and place Michele di Lando in the executive office.


date: August 4

text: August 4 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti succeeds his father, Galeazzo II Visconti, as ruler of Milan.


date: August 11

text: August 11 – Battle of the Vozha River: Prince Dmitri Ivanovich of Moscow resists a small invasion by the Mongol Blue Horde under Mamai.


text: Tokhtamysh dethrones Temur-Malik to become Khan of the White Horde.


text: Uthman Beg establishes the Aq Qoyunlu (Turkomans of the White Sheep) dynasty at Diyarbakır, in modern-day southeast Turkey.


date: April 18

text: April 18 – The coronation of Pope Urban VI takes place in Rome on Easter Sunday.


date: September 20

text: September 20 – Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at Fondi, elect Clement VII as antipope, and establish a rival papal court at Avignon. This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the Western Schism, also known as the Great Schism. France, Aragon, Castile and León, Cyprus, Burgundy, Savoy, Naples and Scotland choose to recognise Antipope Clement VII. Denmark, England, Flanders, the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, northern Italy, Ireland, Norway, Poland and Sweden continue to recognise Pope Urban VI.


date: October 31

text: October 31 – The coronation of Count Onorato Caetani as the antipope Clement VII takes place in Italy at Fondi at the cathedral of San Pietro adjacent to the Caetani palace. Clement operates as a rival leader of the Roman Catholic Church for about a year before he and his cardinals relocate to Avignon.


date: November 16

text: November 16 – The English Parliament concludes its session after four weeks, and royal assent is given to new laws passed during the session, including the Scandalum Magnatum Act 1378, prescribing penalties for "telling slanderous lies of the great men of the realm", the Pope Urban VI Act 1378


date: December 16

text: December 16 – The antipope Clement VII declares nine clerics to be added as cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, joining those already allied with him as part of the Avignon Obedience against the cardinals of Pope Urban VI. Among the new "pseudo-cardinals", assigned to secure allegiance to the Antipope Clement from other European nations are Niccolò Brancaccio, Nicolas de Saint-Saturnin, Pierre Raimundi de Barrière Mirepoix, and Giacomo d'Itri.


text: The Raseborg Castle is mentioned for the first time in documents, but its actual date of foundation is unknown.


date: November 10

section: Science & Discovery

text: November 10 – The first observation of Halley's Comet from Earth is made, based on an estimate from orbital calculations.


text: Ottoman Turks capture the town of Ihtiman in west Bulgaria.


text: Sa'im al-Dahr is hanged for blowing the nose off the Great Sphinx of Giza.


date: January 6

text: January 6 – At the Great Hall of the Conciergerie in Paris, King Charles V of France hosts the Banquet of the Three Kings with his uncle, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and the Emperor's son, Wenzel the Idle, King of the Romans as his guests (along with 800 German and French knights), to celebrate the friendship between the nations. The banquet, held on the day of the Feast of the Epiphany, has three courses, with 10 dishes in each course.


date: May 26

text: May 26 – Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür succeeds his father, Biligtü Khan Ayushiridara, as ruler of the Northern Yuan dynasty in Mongolia.


date: January 23

text: January 23 – Louis III, Elector Palatine (d. 1436)


date: May 27

text: May 27 – Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (d. 1448)


date: August 16

text: August 16 – Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)


date: October 24

text: October 24 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to throne of Scotland (d. 1402)


date: December 31

text: December 31 – Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)


text: Joan II, Countess of Auvergne, French vassal (d. 1424)


text: John Hardyng, English chronicler (d. 1465)


text: Narasimha Saraswati - Indian Guru and Saint


text: Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal-worker (d. 1455)


text: Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (d. 1446)


date: January 14

text: January 14 – King Richard II opens the Irish Parliament for the first time since the death of his father, King Edward III, a year earlier.


date: February 6

text: February 6 – King Charles V of France is widowed when his queen consort, Joanna dies at age 40, two days after giving birth to their last child, Catherine. Against medical advice, Queen Joanna had taken a hot bath in order to induce labor.


text: February 6 – Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of Charles V of France (b. 1338)


date: February 12

text: February 12 – Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev and spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1354, dies of old age and his designated successor, Cyprian, Metropolitan of Lithuania, attempts to become the new leader. However, Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow denies Cyprian permission and appoints Pimen as successor to Alexius.


date: March 27

text: March 27 – Pope Gregory XI (b. c. 1329)


text: March 27 – Pope Gregory XI dies at the Vatican in Rome after a little more than seven years as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and shortly after moving the church leadership back to Rome from the French city of Avignon. Officials of Rome begin a campaign of intimidation to prevent the Roman Catholic cardinals, a majority of whom are French, from electing a French cardinal as Gregory's successor.


date: July

text: July – Owain Lawgoch, titular Prince of Wales and mercenary – assassinated (b. c. 1330)


date: August 4

text: August 4 – Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. c. 1320)


date: November 29

text: November 29 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)


text: November 29 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, dies in Prague. He is succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus, as King of Bohemia, but the office of Holy Roman Emperor falls into abeyance, until Charles's son Sigismund is crowned in 1433.


date: November 30

text: November 30 – Andrew Stratford, English verderer and landowner


date: February 16

text: February 16 – King Richard II of England issues an order directing the English Parliament to assemble on April 24 in London.


date: March 31

text: March 31 – The Treaty of Briones is signed between King Carlos of Navarre and King Enrique of Castile, ending a war that started the previous year. The Kingdom of Navarre ends its alliance with the Kingdom of England, whose troops it had allowed passage during the Hundred Years War.


date: April 24

text: April 24 – The English Parliament opens for a five-week session under the direction of King Richard II.


text: May 27 – The English Parliament closes after a short session, and King Richard II issues royal assent to legislation passed, including the Riots Act 1379, a prohibition against "fraudulent deeds made by debtors to avoid their creditors", and a confirmation of liberties of the Church.


date: May 29

text: May 29 – John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.


date: September 9

text: September 9 – The Treaty of Neuberg is signed, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between brothers Albert III and Leopold III. Albert III retains the title of Duke of Austria.


date: October 20

text: October 20 – King Richard II issues a summons directing the English Parliament to assemble on January 16.


text: Bairam Khawaja establishes the independent principality of the Kara Koyunlu (Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire), in modern-day Armenia.


date: February 28

text: February 28 – In what is now part of Kazakhstan and Russia, Tulak Khan of Borjigin is confirmed by the Beylerbey Mamai of the Golden Horde, with the approval of the ruler Tokhtamysh, after Mamai arranges the assassination of Tulak's cousin, the former khan.


date: March 24

text: March 24 – The First War of the Guelderian Succession ends after eight years of fighting in what is now the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, between Wilhelm of Jülich and the Duchess Mechteld of Guelders. Duchess Mechteld, wife of John II, Count of Blois, who renounces all claims to further rule after a defeat at the Battle of Hönnepel. In return for her surrender of claims to Guelders, she receives an annual pension of 33,000 gold pieces.


date: May 7

text: May 7 – The Battle of Pola is fought in the Adriatic Sea between the navies of the Republic of Genoa and the Republic of Venice. The Venetian fleet, commanded by Admiral Vettor Pisani loses 19 of its 25 galleys in the battle, but Genoese Admiral Luciano Doria is killed in the battle. One of Doria's lieutenants conceals the admiral's death from the rest of the sailors by donning the admiral's clothes. Admiral Pisani is put in prison upon his return to Venice, but later released when Genoa invades in the Battle of Chioggia.


date: July 1

text: July 1 – Forces of the Republic of Venice and Ottoman Turks, having invaded Constantinople, restore John V Palaiologos as Byzantine co-emperor. Andronikos IV Palaiologos is allowed to remain as co-emperor, but is confined to the city of Silivri for the remainder of his life.


date: August 16

text: August 16 – The Republic of Genoa, led by the Doge Nicolò Guarco and its allies from Hungary and Padua, captures Venice's port of Chioggia and seize the Venetian Army garrison there and soon threaten to take Venice and the Venetian Republic. An attempt by the Venetian Senate to apply for peace is rejected as Genoa demands a full surrender, and the Venetians resolve to fight, releasing Admiral Pisani from prison.


date: September 14

text: September 14 – Andrea Contarini, Doge of Venice, announces to the besieged Venetians that the Republic will fight Genoa rather than surrender their nation.


date: December 22

text: December 22 – Andrea Contarini, the Doge of the Republic of Venice, directs Admiral Pisani to blockade the port of Genoa, effectively trapping the Genoese fleet and preventing the occupation of Venice.


text: In the Hundred Years' War, the French lose control of most of Brittany to the English.


text: Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow raids Estonia.


text: Timur conquers the Sufid Dynasty of Khwarazm.


date: June 30

text: June 30 – New College, Oxford, is founded in England by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.


date: November 28

text: November 28 – From Avignon in France, the antipope Clement VII issues his own a papal bull confirming the foundation of the University of Perpignan.


date: April 9

text: April 9 – (22nd day of third month of Eiwa 5) The Kōryaku era begins in the Northern Court of Japan at Kyoto on decree of the northern Emperor Go-En'yū because of a disastrous time of plague and war.


date: January 23

text: January 23 – Maria, Queen of Sicily since 1377, is kidnapped from her home at the Ursino Castle in Catania by Guglielmo Raimondo III of the rival House of Moncada claimants to the throne held by the House of Aragon. The action takes place with the support of King Pero IV of Aragon, who installs his son Martin of Aragon as the Viceroy of Sicily.


text: Wisbech Grammar School is founded in England.


date: October 4

text: October 4 – King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)


text: Jerome of Prague, Hussite (d. 1416)


text: Empress Zhang (Hongxi) of China (d. 1442)


date: February 18

text: February 18 – Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. c. 1318)


text: February 18 – Heinrich III is installed as the new Duke of Mecklenburg at Schwerin (now part of Germany) upon the death of his father, Albrecht II.


text: May 29 – King Henry II of Castile (b. 1333)


date: November 15

text: November 15 – Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1346)


date: December 16

text: December 16 – John Fitzalan, Marshal of England (drowned)


text: date unknown – Aqsara'i, Persian physician


text: In Jiaozhi (present-day northern Vietnam), during the Second Era of Northern Domination, a peace agreement was made between the Han governor and the Cham rebels following their uprising in 137. Historical records do not clarify the terms of the agreement.

source_section: Events › By place › Asia


date: February 25

text: February 25 – Emperor Hadrian makes Antoninus Pius his successor, on condition that he adopt Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

source_section: Events › By place › Roman Empire


text: Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as Roman Emperor, and asks the Senate to confer divine honors for Hadrian.


section: Economy & Finance

text: The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 75 percent under Emperor Antoninus Pius, down from 87 percent under Hadrian.

source_section: Events › By topic › Commerce


text: Construction begins on the Theater of Philadelphia (Amman).


text: Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, is finished.


text: Han Zhidi, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. 146)


text: Marcus Ummidius Quadratus, Roman politician (d. 182)


date: January 1

text: January 1 – Lucius Aelius Caesar, Roman politician and adopted son of Hadrian (b. 101)


date: July 10

text: July 10 – Hadrian, Roman emperor died at Baie (b. AD 76)


text: July 10 – Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae, and is buried at Rome in the Gardens of Domitia beside his wife, Vibia Sabina.


text: Zenobius, Greek sophist and writer (b. 117)


date: January 16

text: January 16 – The fourth parliament of King Richard II assembles at Westminster after being summoned on October 20 for a six week session. The House of Commons elects Sir John Guildesborough as Speaker of the House.


date: May 31

text: May 31 – Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila signs the secret Treaty of Dovydiškės, with the Teutonic Knights. This sparks a civil war with his uncle Kęstutis.


date: August 26

text: August 26 – King Richard II of England summons the English Parliament five months after the dissolution of the previous meeting, and directs the members of the House of Commons and House of Lords to assemble on November 5 at Westminster.


date: September 16

text: September 16 – Charles V of France is succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, Charles VI.


date: November 5

text: November 5 – The English parliament assembles, and the House of Commons re-elects Sir John Guildesborough as its speaker.


date: December 6

text: December 6 – The English parliament adjourns and King Richard II gives royal assent to laws passed during the 31 day session, including an act providing that "All vessels of wine, honey, and oil brought into this realm shall be gauged" and a general pardon of "escapes and felons and clerks convict."


text: The Hongwu Emperor purges the chancellor of China, Hu Weiyong, and abolishes that office, as he imposes direct imperial rule over the six ministries of central government, for the Ming Empire.


text: The last islands of Polynesia are discovered and inhabited.


text: January 1 – The Republic of Venice's Admiral Carlo Zeno returns to Venice with 18 ships, after the city is on the verge of falling to conquest by the Republic of Genoa.


date: January 30

text: 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.


date: February 12

text: February 12 – Hu Weiyong, the Grand Chancellor of Ming dynasty China, is accused of treason and executed as the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (Emperor Hongwu) begins a purge of over 30,000 people perceived as opponents of the Imperial government.


date: March 13

text: March 13 – The southern England town of Winchelsea in East Sussex is attacked and burned by an expeditionary force from France for a second time.


date: June 24

text: June 24 – At the Battle of Chioggia, the navy of the Republic of Venice, with 48 galleys, defeats the invading fleet of the Republic of Genoa, clearing a blockade of the Venetian harbor, regaining control of the Adriatic Sea, and beginning the dominance of the Venetian Navy. Venice supplements its fleet with the capture of 17 of Genoa's ships.


date: September 8

text: September 8 – At the Battle of Kulikovo, Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow resist a large invasion, led by Mamai Khan, commander of the Blue Horde of Lithuania and Ryazan, stopping their advance.


text: Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde dethrones Mamai of the Blue Horde. The two hordes unite to form the Golden Horde.


date: March 4

text: March 4 – The impostor Paul Palaiologos Tagaris becomes noticed by the Eastern Orthodox church when he donates a purported Christian relic, the skull of James the Just, the 1st century leader of the Church of Jerusalem, to the city of Ancona.


date: April 17

text: 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 .


date: November 7

text: 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.


text: The imposter Paul Palaiologos Tagaris, having been appointed Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by Pope Urban VI, takes up residence in his see at Chalcis.


text: Karim Al-Makhdum arrives in Jolo, and builds a mosque.


text: The Companhia das Naus is founded by King Ferdinand I of Portugal.


date: March 3

text: March 3 – The 4th English parliament of King Richard II adjourns, and the King gives royal assent to the Assize of Cloths Act 1379 (providing a penalty for "the aulneger that setteth his seal to faulty cloths" and to the Farming of Benefices for Aliens Act 1379 (providing that "None shall take any benefice of an alien, or convey money to him.")


text: Sir William Walworth, a member of the Fishmongers Guild, becomes Lord Mayor of London for the second time.


date: July 29

text: July 29 – At the age of 10, King Olaf II of Denmark is proclaimed as King Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margete) as regent. Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as parts of Norway, pass under the Danish crown.


date: October 2

text: October 2 – Caterina Visconti marries her first cousin, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, later Duke of Milan, at the Church of San Giovanni in Conca.


date: November 3

text: November 3 – Charles VI of France, who succeeded his father (Charles V of France) in September, is crowned.


date: February 11

text: February 11 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (d. 1459)


text: September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)


date: November 27

text: November 27 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (d. 1416)


text: Jan Želivský, Hussite priest (d. 1422)


text: Nguyễn Trãi, Confucian scholar (d. 1442)


text: Huitzilihuitl II, 2nd Tlatoani (king) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1396–1417, father of Moctezuma I (d. c. 1417)


text: Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (d. 1471)


text: Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Bistami, Ottoman Sufi (d. 1455)


text: Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Tarentum (d. 1449)


text: Parameshvara, Indian mathematician (d. 1425)


text: King Lukeni lua Nimi of the Kingdom of Kongo (d. 1420)


text: Anne de Bourbon, French noble (d. 1408)


text: Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1429)


date: April 29

text: April 29 – Saint Catherine of Siena, Italian theologian (b. 1347)


date: May 5

text: May 5 – Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr


date: July 13

text: July 13 – Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France (b. c. 1320)


date: July 26

text: July 26 – Emperor Kōmyō, former Emperor of Japan (b. 1322)


text: September 8 – Alexander Peresvet, venerated Russian Orthodox monk and champion of Kulikovo


date: September 16

text: September 16 – King Charles V of France (b. 1338)


date: December 29

text: December 29 – Elizabeth of Poland, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1305)


text: Khadijah of the Maldives, sovereign sultan of the Maldives


text: Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh al-Khalīlī, Syrian astronomer (b. 1320)


text: Nissim of Gerona, Catalan rabbi (b. 1320)


date: January 25

text: January 25 – King Charles VI the Beloved re-confirms the 1315 Charter to the Normans (Charte aux Normands), recognizing the rights and privileges of the residents of the Duchy of Normandy to self-government within France. The Charter had lapsed in 1364 when King Charles V the Wise declined to confirm it after ascending the throne.


date: January 26

text: January 26 – Japan's Kōwa era begins.


date: April 14

text: April 14 – The second Treaty of Guérande is concluded in France between Jean, Count of Penthièvre and Yann IV, Duke of Brittany as Penthièvre drops his claim to rulership of the Duchy in return for being released from Gloucester Castle in England and being paid a substantial indemnity. Penthièvre had been the eldest son of Charles of Blois-Châtillon, who had been Duke of Brittany until his death in 1364.


date: July 16

text: July 16 – King Richard II of England summons the members of the English Parliament to assemble at Westminster on November 3.


date: August 8

text: August 8 – The Treaty of Turin is signed between the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa to end the three-year War of Chioggia against Genoa, on terms favorable to Venice. The settlement comes more than a year after Venice's triumph in the Battle of Chioggia on June 24, 1380.


date: September 25

text: September 25 – King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia grants Count Bernhard of Wurttemberg permission to rebuild fortresses that had been destroyed during the war with the Swabian League, despite an order by the Holy Roman Emperor Karl that forbids rearmament within the Empire.


date: September 27

text: September 27 – John IV, Duke of Brittany, executes the Second Treaty of Guérande with Charles VI of France, pledging the Duchy's neutrality in any war between France and England.


text: November 3 – The English Parliament assembles at Westminster on orders of King Richard II. The House of Commons elects Sir Richard Waldegrave as the Speaker of the House. The Parliament meets for almost four months before being adjourned on February 25.


text: Sonam Drakpa deposes Drakpa Changchub as ruler of Tibet.

source_section: Events › Date not known


date: January 14

text: January 14 – Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and son of the late King Edward III of England, ends his siege of the French city of Nantes after two months, having started on 8 November 1380.


date: March 14

text: March 14 – The Italian town of Chioggia concludes an alliance with the Croatian towns of Zadar and Trogir against the Republic of Venice, which lsts until 1412.


date: April

text: April – (Muharram 783 AH) In what is now Afghanistan, the Siege of Herat by the Mongol conqueror Timur ends with the Persian city surrendering to the Mongols, in return for the populace being spared.


date: May 21

text: May 21 – Al-Salih Hajji succeeds his older brother, Al-Mansur Ali II as the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt. The Egyptian government continues to be controlled by rebel leader Barquq.


date: June 12

text: 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.


date: June 15

text: June 15 – (23rd day of 6th month of Kowa) – In Japan's Higo Province, Imagawa Sadayo and Imagawa Nakaaki capture Kikuchi Castle and Somedo Castle.


date: July 17

text: July 17 – The Battle of Saltes Island is fought off of the coast of Spain between the navies of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, with all but one of the Portuguese fleet of 23 galleys being captured, and their crews taken prisoner, by a smaller force of 17 galleys commanded by Fernando Sánchez de Tovar.


date: July 21

text: July 21 – Gaston III of Foix, commonly known as Gaston Fébus, launches an attack against the regents for King Charles V of France, defeating a brigade of 2,500 mercenaries enlisted by one of the regents, the Duke of Berry.


date: August

text: August – Kęstutis overthrows his nephew, Jogaila, as Grand Duke of Lithuania. Jogaila is allowed to remain as governor of eastern Lithuania. This marks the beginning of the Lithuanian Civil War (1381–84).


date: October 14

text: October 14 – Fishmonger John Northampton is elected as Lord Mayor of London to succeed Sir William Walworth, who had retired after suppressing Wat Tyler's rebellion.


date: December 26

text: December 26 – Count Febus of Foix and the Duke of Berry meet at Capestang and work out an agreement to end their war, with the Duke agreeing to cease support of Febus's enemies, the Armagnacs, and Febus agreeing to recognize the Duke's authority over Languedoc.


text: Timur conquers east Persia, ending the rule of the Sarbadar dynasty.


text: The Ming dynasty of China annexes the areas of the old Kingdom of Dali, in modern-day Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, inhabited by the Miao and Yao peoples. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese (including military colonists) will migrate there from the rest of China.


date: June 2

text: June 2 – Due to the support by Queen Joanna I of Naples for the antipope Clement VII, Pope Urban VI declares her cousin, Carlo di Durazzo to be the new ruler of the Kingdom of Naples. Afterward, with the help of the Hungarians, Charles advances on Naples and captures Joanna. James of Baux, the ruler of Taranto and the Latin Empire, claims the Principality of Achaea after Joanna's imprisonment.


date: June 14

text: June 14 – Peasants' Revolt: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury


date: August 25

text: August 25 – Queen Joanna I of Naples surrenders the kingdom to Carlo di Durazzo, Duke of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia, who had been able to start an invasion of Naples after the excommunication and order of deposition of Joanna by order of Pope Urban VI]. The Duke then takes the throne as King Carlo III.


date: October 10

text: 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.


date: February 1

text: February 1 – Sir Robert Hales is appointed by King Richard II of England as the new Lord High Treasurer, replacing Thomas de Brantingham in an office that will eventually cost him his life. Because Hales administers the collection of taxes, including the new poll tax passed into law by Brantingham,


text: In Ming dynasty China, the lijia census registration system begun in 1371 is now universally imposed, during the reign of the Hongwu Emperor. The census counts 59,873,305 people living in China in this year. This depicts a drastic drop in population since the Song dynasty, which counted 100 million people at its height in the early 12th century. A modern historian states that the Ming census is inaccurate, as China at around this time has at least 65,000,000 inhabitants, if not 75,000,000.


text: 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.


date: January 13

text: January 13 – Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (d. 1447)


date: October 13

text: October 13 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1415)


text: Anna of Celje, Queen consort of Poland (d. 1416)


text: Itzcóatl, fourth Tlatoani for the Mexica Empire (d. 1440)


text: Johann Schiltberger, German traveller and writer (d. 1440)


text: John I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1434)


date: March 24

text: March 24 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1331 or 1332)


date: May 15

text: May 15 – Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron


text: June 14 – Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (murdered)


text: June 15 – John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (murdered)


date: July 15

text: July 15 – John Ball, renegade priest (executed)


date: December 2

text: December 2 – John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic


date: December 27

text: December 27 – Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician


date: February 25

text: February 25 – The English Parliament adjourns after a seession of almost four months that had started on 30-day session that began on November 3. Among the laws given royal assent by King Richard II are the Treason Act 1381, the Forcible Entry Act 1381 and the confirmations of the liberty of the church, prohibition of the exportation of gold or silver without permission, and setting of price ceilings on wine.


date: August 9

text: August 9 – King Richard II summons the English Parliament for the third time in the year, directing the Lords and members of Commons to assemble at Westminster on October 6.


date: August 10

text: 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.


date: January 6

text: January 6 – Basalawarmi, the Yuan dynasty Prince of Liang (now in the Henan province), commits suicide at his palace in Kaifeng after having been forced to retreat from the Ming dynasty armies.


date: March 3

text: March 3 – The Mailottins massacre takes place in Paris when revenue agents for King Charles VI arrive at the Les Halles market to collect taxes. The agents are killed by a mob of almost 500 merchants, and the number of people involved increases to several thousand, with the rioters seizing a large store of iron mallets (mallots) at the Place de Greve. Armed with heavy weapons, the mallotins begin attacking and looting churches, businesses, government offices and homes of wealthy people and then attack the Jewish section of city. An estimated 30 people are killed by the mob.


date: March 5

text: March 5 – King Charles VI arrives at the gates of the walled city of Paris and, with the Duke of Burgundy as his intermediary, attempts to negotiate peace to end the rebellion in Paris. While their demands are not met, the mob opens the cells of the city's prisons and frees the persons incarcerated.


date: March 10

text: March 10 – (24th day of Leap Month of Kōwa 2) Kusunoki Masanori, fighting for Southern Japan, is defeated in a battle at Kawachi Hirao with Yamana Ujiyoshi and is forced to retreat back to Tokyo.


date: March 29

text: March 29 – Troops commanded by the King of France and the Duke of Burgundy liberate Rouen from rebel control, without resistance, and all but 12 of the rebels are spared from execution.


date: April 9

text: 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.


date: August 23

text: August 23 – The Siege of Moscow begins as Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde attacks the capital of the Principality of Muscovy while its ruler, Prince Dmitry Donskoy, is away seeking assistance from other Russian princes.


date: August 26

text: August 26 – After three days, Tokhtamysh promises the highest ranking official in Moscow, Prince Ostei, that if a peaceful surrender can be negotiated, the Tatars of the Golden Horde will spare the population. As Ostei opens the gate of the walled city and walks out with his team, Tokhtamysh kills the Russian group and his troops begin looting, raping and killing the Moscow residents.


date: November 27

text: November 27 – After a five-year revolt, Barquq deposes Hajji II as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, marking the end of the Bahri Dynasty and Qalawunid Dynasty, and the start of the Burji Dynasty.


text: November 27 – Battle of Roosebeke: A French army under Louis II, Count of Flanders defeats the Flemings, led by Philip van Artevelde.


text: Ahmed deposes his brother, Hussain, as ruler of the Jalayirid Dynasty in western Persia.


text: Dawit I succeeds his brother Newaya Maryam, as Emperor of Ethiopia.


text: Ibrahim I is selected to succeed Husheng, as Shah of Shirvan (now Azerbaijan).


text: The Ottomans take Sofia from the Bulgarians.


text: Balša II of Zeta conquers Albania.


text: Khan Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde overruns Muscovy, as punishment for Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy's resistance to Khan Mamai of the Blue Horde in the 1370s. Dmitry Donskoy pledges his loyalty to Tokhtamysh, and is allowed to remain as ruler of Moscow and Vladimir.


text: Rana Lakha succeeds Rana Kshetra Singh, as ruler of Mewar (now part of western India).


date: September 30

text: September 30 – The inhabitants of Trieste (now in northern Italy) donate their city to Duke Leopold III of Austria.


date: May 12

text: May 12 – Charles of Durazzo executes the cimprisoned Joanna I of Naples, and succeeds her as Charles III of Naples.


date: May 21

text: May 21 – John Wycliffe's teachings are condemned by the Synod of London, which becomes known as the "Earthquake Synod", after its meetings are disrupted by an earthquake.


text: August 26 – The iconic painting the Black Madonna of Częstochowa is brought from Jerusalem, to the Jasna Góra Monastery in Poland on her the day celbrated as the feast day in her honor.


text: Abraham bar Garib becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.


text: Conrad Zöllner von Rothenstein succeeds Winrich von Kniprode, as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.


date: July 19

text: July 19 – Joanna of Anjou, who had been Queen of Naples until being deposed on August 25, 1381, is murdered by strangulation after being transferred in May to the prison at the Castle of Muro Lucano.


text: Kęstutis, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, is taken prisoner by former Grand Duke Jogaila, whilst meeting him to hold negotiations. Kęstutis is subsequently murdered, and Jogaila regains the rule of Lithuania.


date: January 20

text: January 20 – Princess Anne of Bohemia, a daughter of the late Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the Queen Consort of England by marrying King Richard II; the marriage produces no heirs before her death in 1395.


date: August 15

text: August 15 – Jogaila resumes his position as Grand Duke of Lithuania.


date: October 20

text: October 20 – Winchester College is founded in England.


date: November 25

text: November 25 – The nobles of Greater Poland assemble at Radomsko and, not wishing to be ruled by Mary' of Hungarys fiancee, the future Sigismund of Luxembourg, choose Mary's younger sister, Jadwiga, to become ruler of Poland.


date: December 12

text: December 12 – The noblemen of Lesser Poland meet at Wiślica and, as with the November 25 decision of the nobles of Greater Poland, vote to invite Jadwiga of Hungary to be their ruler.


date: January 23

text: January 23 – Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (d. 1439)


text: Joan, princess regent of Navarre (d. 1413)


text: Frederick IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1439)


text: probable – Erik of Pomerania, King of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (d. 1459)


text: Lope de Barrientos, powerful bishop in Castile


date: January 5

text: January 5 – Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (b. 1355)


date: February 8

text: February 8 – Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (b. 1328)


date: February 15

text: February 15 – William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (b. c. 1339)


date: June 10

text: June 10 – Michele Morosini is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Venice, five days after the death of Andrea Contarini, but serves for only four months before dying in office.


date: July 11

text: July 11 – Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (b. 1325)


date: August 13

text: August 13 – Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (b. 1358)


date: September 10

text: September 10 – Lajos I, King of Hungary and Croatia and Poland, dies at the age of 56 after 40 years as the Hungarian monarch.


date: September 17

text: September 17 – Following the death of King Lajos, his daughter Mary is crowned the "King" of Hungary in a ceremony at Székesfehérvár, carried out by Cardinal Demeter, Archbishop of Esztergom.


date: September 29

text: September 29 – 'Izz al-Din ibn Rukn al-Din Mahmud, malik of Sistan


date: October 13

text: October 13 – While being held as a prisoner in the Republic of Genoa, Jacques de Lusignan is elected by a parliament of Cypriot nobles to succeed his nephew, Peter II (who died on September 9), as King of Cyprus.


text: October 13 – King Peter II of Cyprus


date: October 16

text: October 16 – Michele Morosini, Doge of Venice, dies after contracting the bubonic plague. Antonio Venier is elected to succeed him. Vernier will be the chief executive of the republic for 18 years until his death in 1400.


date: October 18

text: October 18 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (b. 1331)


date: November 27

text: November 27 – Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (b. 1340) (killed in battle)


date: January 7

text: January 7 – King Richard II issues a summons for the Lords and members of the House of Commons to assemble for the English Parliament, to convene on February 23.


date: January 13

text: January 13 – At Heian-kyō (now Kyoto), Go-Komatsu is enthroned as the Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan, after having succeeded to the throne on the abdication of Emperor Go-En'yū on November 19.


date: February 2

text: February 2 – The Doge of Genoa agrees to release King James I of Cyprus from captivity in return for an agreement that the King's son, Janus, will become the new prisoner.


date: February 23

text: February 23 – The English Parliament opens at Westminster for its 9th session under the rule of King Richard II, and Sir James Pickering is elected as the Speaker of the House of Commons.


date: March 10

text: March 10 – The English Parliament adjourns. Among the laws given royal assent by King Richard are the pardon of most "offenders in the last insurrection, with few exceptions" and a statute of limitations on actions for trespass.


date: August 20

text: August 20 – King Richard II summons the English Parliament five months after the adjournment of the last session, and directs the members to assemble at Westminster on October 26.


date: October 26

text: October 26 – The English Parliament is opened at Westminster for a one-month session. The House of Commons re-elects Sir James Pickering as Speaker of the House.


date: November 26

text: November 26 – The English Parliament adjourns and King Richard II gives royal assent to multiple laws, including "a confirmation of the liberties of the church", a prohibition of exports of weapons or food to the Kingdom of Scotland without royal approval, and the Vagabonds Act.


text: Rao Chanda succeeds Rao Biram Dev as Rathore ruler of Marwar (in modern-day western India).


date: February 11

text: February 11 – King Carlo III of Naples confiscates the property of Pietro d'Enghien and Luigi d'Enghien (both of whom are in Venice) and declares them both to be rebels against the Neapolitan crown.


date: May 5

text: May 5 – (3rd waxing of Nayon 745 ME) In what is now Myanmar, Prince Binnya Nwe begins a rebellion against his aunt, the regent Maha Dewi of Hanthawaddy, as he and 30 of his men seize the governor's residence at Dagon, near Yangon.


date: June 16

text: June 16 – At a meeting of the Polish nobles at Sieradz, Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia announces that he will claim the crown as King of Poland. Queen Elizabeth of Hungary sends an army of 12,000 soldiers two months later to devastate the Duchy of Masovia and its capital, Warsaw, forcing Siemowit to give up his claims to the throne .


date: August 27

text: August 27 – (End of Tawthalin 745 ME) Queen Maha Devi gives word to the army of Hanthawaddy that she will suppress the rebellion by Prince Binnya Nwe, with an attack to be launched at the end of Burma's rainy season.


date: September 19

text: September 19 – In Macedonia in Greece, the city of Serres is conquered and occupied by forces of the Ottoman Empire and renamed Siroz. Under the terms of surrender, the Greek population keeps control of the churches and most homes inside the walled city, while the Ottoman Turks settle outside the walls, which are eventually torn down.


date: October 28

text: October 28 – (3rd waxing of Nadaw, 745 ME) With the rainy season over in Burma, Queen Maha Dewi of Hanthawaddy dispatches armies from Pegu, Martaban and Myaungmya to attack her rebel nephew, Binnya Nwe, at Dagon.


date: November 19

text: November 19 – (10th waning of Nadaw 745 ME) The Pegu army of Smin Maru is driven back by the rebel Nwe, while General Zeik-Bye declines to intervene.


date: December 6

text: December 6 – In a coup d'etat, Count João Fernandes Andeiro, the brother of the regent Leonor Teles and uncle of Queen Beatriz of Portugal, is assassinated by João, Master of Aviz.


date: December 10

text: December 10 – (12th waning of Pyatho 745 ME) After breaking through Queen Maha Dewi's last defenses, Binnya Nwe's troops reach the walls of Pegu and forces a stalemate between Queen Maha and Prince Nwe.


date: December 16

text: December 16 – As Queen Beatriz of Portugal flees Lisbon toward Alenquer. João, Master of Aviz is declared to be the new regent.


text: The Teutonic Knights recommence war against pagan Lithuania.


date: April 7

text: April 7 – Nicolò Guarco is deposed as Doge of the Republic of Genoa and is replaced by Federico di Pagana, who in is forced to resign at the end of the day in favor of Leonardo Montaldo.


text: The Wat Phra That Doi Suthep Temple is built in modern-day Thailand, by King Kuena of Lanna.


text: Löwenbräu beer is first brewed.


text: Construction of the Bastille fortress is completed in Paris, France.


date: March 16

text: 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.


date: September 12

text: September 12 – Shortly before his death, King Fernando I of Portugal creates the kingdom's first police force, the Quadrilheiros, initially consisting of 20 of the strongest men in Lisbon, and gives them the authority to arrest criminals. The concept of a city police force is expanded to other communities and becomes the basis for the Polícia de Segurança Pública.


date: March 13

text: March 13 – Michael de la Pole becomes the new Lord Chancellor of the England for King Richard II.


date: March 28

text: March 28 – In a proclamation made by her envoys to Poland, Elizabeth, the former Queen consort of Hungary and regent for her 10-year-old daughter Mary, Queen of Hungary, formally releases the Kingdom of Poland from an oath of loyalty to Mary and announces that she will send her 9-year-old daughter Hedwig to be the queen of Poland.


date: May 17

text: May 17 – King John I of Castile and Leon marries Beatrice of Portugal.


text: Dan I succeeds his father Radu as Prince of Wallachia. He is the ancestor of the House of Dăneşti.


text: Completion of the original inner courtyard of Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somersetshire, England.


date: April 30

text: April 30 - Anne of Gloucester, English countess, granddaughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1438)


date: September 4

text: September 4 - Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, aka Antipope Felix V (d. 1451)


date: November 9

text: November 9 - Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1441)


text: date unknown - Pope Eugene IV (d. 1447)


date: March 1

text: March 1 – Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)


date: June 5

text: June 5 – Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)


date: June 8

text: June 8 – Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)


date: June 15

text: June 15 – John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)


date: July 7

text: July 7 – James of Baux, ruler of Taranto and Achaea, and last titular Latin Emperor, dies childless. As a result, Charles III of Naples becomes ruler of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece); Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, the widower of Joanna I of Naples, becomes ruler of Taranto (eastern Italy); and Louis I, Duke of Anjou inherits the claim to the Latin Empire (western Turkey), but never uses the title of Emperor.


text: July 7 James of Baux, titular Latin Emperor


date: October 22

text: 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.


text: October 22 – King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)


date: December 7

text: December 7 – Wenceslaus II the Lazy, who is also King of Bohemia, becomes the new Duke of Luxembourg upon the death of his uncle, Duke Wenceslaus I.


text: December 7 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337)


date: December 23

text: December 23 – Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia (b. 1320)


text: date unknown – Radu I, Prince of Wallachia


date: March 3

text: March 3 – King Richard II of England summons the members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords to assemble at Salisbury on April 29.


date: May 27

text: May 27 – The English Parliament adjourns and King Richard II gives royal assent to laws passed during the session.


date: July 26

text: July 26 – The Treaty of Heidelberg ends a fight between the Süddeutscher Städtebund (South German League of Cities, with 28 member cities) and the allies of Wenceslaus IV, King of Germany.


date: September 28

text: September 28 – King Richard II summons the English Parliament to meet on November 12.


date: November 12

text: November 12 – The 12th parliament of King Richard II assembles and elects James Pickering as Speaker of the House for the fourth consecutive time.


date: December 14

text: December 14 – The second assembly in 1384 of the English Parliament is adjourned.


text: The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China reinstates the Imperial examination system for drafting scholar-officials to the civil service, after suspending the system since 1373, in favor of a recommendation system to office.

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date: January 2

text: January 2 (10th waxing of Tabodwe, 745 ME) – King Binnya U of Burma's Hanthawaddy kingdom is killed in a rebellion at the capital, Bago. His 16-year-old son, Pasoom-Paing-Cek, is installed by the rebels as King Razadarit.


date: January 26

text: January 26 – England and France agree to a truce and ceasefire in the ongoing Revolt of Ghent. The Kingdom of Scotland goes to war to retake Scottish territory occupied by the English Army.


date: February 4

text: February 4 – Scottish forces make an attack against English occupation forces in Scotland and recapture Lochmaben Castle and Teviotdale.


date: February 11

text: 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.


date: May 29

text: May 29 – The army of the Crown of Castile army begins the siege of Lisbon, capital of the Kingdom of Portugal.


date: July 19

text: July 19 – Portugal's Navy, with 34 ships, breaks the Castilian blockade of bhe besieged city of Lisbon, defeating a force of 53 Castilian ships in the Battle of Tejo.


date: September 3

text: September 3 – The siege of Lisbon by the Castilian Army ends as the Portuguese defenders protect the capital of the kingdom of Portugal.


text: Timur conquers the northern territories of the Jalayirid Empire, in western Persia.


text: Zain Al-Abidin succeeds his father, Shah Shuja, as ruler of the Muzaffarids in central Persia.


date: April 29

text: April 29 – The Parliament of England opens a four-week session at Salisbury at the palace of the Bishop of Salisbury. Sir James Pickering is elected as Speaker of the House of Commons for the third consecutive time of his career.


text: Shortly before his death on the last day of the year, John Wycliffe sends out tracts against Pope Urban VI, who has not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.


date: February 7

text: 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.


date: August 16

text: 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.


date: August 5

text: August 5 – An earthquake strikes the island of Lesbos in Greece, killing numerous people including the Genoan Lord of Lesbos, Francesco I Gattilusio, along with his two eldest sons, Andronico and Domenico. His son Jacopo Gattiliuso survives and rules the island under the name Francesco II.


text: Qara Muhammad succeeds Bairam Khawaja, as ruler of the Kara Koyunlu ("Black Sheep Turkomans"), in modern-day Armenia and northern Iraq.


text: The Nasrid princes of Al-Andalus replace Abu al-Abbas with Abu Faris Musa ibn Faris, as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco.


date: December 25

text: December 25 – Use of the Spanish era dating system in the Crown of Castile is suppressed.


text: Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is founded in Gloucestershire, England.


date: August 11

text: August 11 – Yolande of Aragon (d. 1442)


date: August

text: August – Antoine, Duke of Brabant (d. 1415)


text: Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana (d. 1411)


text: Sigismondo Polcastro, Italian physician and natural philosopher (d. 1473)


date: January 30

text: January 30 – Louis II, Count of Flanders (b. 1330)


text: January 30 – Margaret III becomes the Countess of Flanders upon the death of her 53-year-old father, Count Louis II. Margaret and her husband Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, become co-rulers of both Flanders and Burgundy.


date: May

text: May – William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish magnate (b.c. 1327)


date: June 8

text: June 8 – Kan'ami, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1333)


date: June 15

text: June 15 – Antoniotto I Adorno is elected as Doge of the Republic of Genoa following the death of the Doge Leonardo Montaldo from bubonic plague the day before. Adorno serves as the Republic's chief executive until 1390.


date: August 6

text: August 6 – Francesco I of Lesbos


date: August 20

text: August 20 – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)


date: September 10

text: September 10 – Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and nominal Duchess of Brittany (b. 1319)


date: September 20

text: September 20 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (b. 1339)


date: October 16

text: October 16 – At the age of 10, Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland in Kraków following the 1382 death of her father, King Louis of Hungary.


date: October

text: October – Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1350)


date: December 23

text: December 23 – Thomas Preljubović, ruler of Epirus


date: December 31

text: December 31 – John Wycliffe, English theologian, Bible translator and Catholic reform campaigner


text: Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili al-Jizzini also known as al-Shahid al-Awwal, author of al-Lum'ah al-Dimashqiyah (b. ca 1334)


date: April 6

text: April 6 – At Coimbra, João, Master of Aviz, son of the late King Pedro I of Portugal, is declared by the Cortes of Coimbra to be the new King of Portugal.


text: Olav IV of Norway is elected as titular King of Sweden, in opposition to the unpopular King Albert.


date: February 14

text: February 14 – John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of the late King Edward III of England and uncle of King Richard II, flees London after learning during a joust that he has been targeted for assassination by the King's advisors Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford; and John de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury


date: March 22

text: March 22 – From the port of Sluis (now in the Netherlands), the Kingdom of France dispatches a fleet of ships, carrying an army of 1,315 soldiers, 300 crossbowmen and 200 assistants, to aid the Kingdom of Scotland in defense of an invasion by the Kingdom of England. The fleet arrives at the Scottish port of Leith, near Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, on March 25.


date: May 6

text: May 6 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti leads a coup d'etat against his uncle, Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan and begins conquests to transform Milan into a Duchy, with himself as the Duke of Milan.


date: May 14

text: May 14 – The two-day Battle of Sluys concludes on the North Sea off of the coast of the Netherlands as England's Royal Navy, led by the Admiral, Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester attempts to blockade the Flemish port of Sluis and more than 100 ships stationed there. Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France, makes a successful counter-attack and the Royal Navy ships sail back to England to defend London.


date: May 29

text: May 29 – The Battle of Trancoso is fought between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile after a Castilian army pillages and burns the city of Viseu. As the Castilians are marching back with their plundered loot and prisoners, they are met by the Portuguese Army, which kills more than 400 soldiers along with six of the seven Castilian officers, then recovers the stolen treasure and releases all of the Portuguese citizens taken prisoner.


date: June 10

text: 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.


date: July 8

text: July 8 – English invasion of Scotland (1385): King Robert II of Scotland sends two armies of Scottish soldiers and French mercenaries south from Edinburgh and raids the English county of Northumberland.


date: July 16

text: July 16 – King Richard II directs suppliers in Durham, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland to be prepared to supply food to the English Army, to be purchased "at a reasonable price for ready payment."


date: August 6

text: August 6 – English invasion of Scotland (1385): After setting off from Berwick-upon-Tweed, the English Army invades Scotland. The English soldiers quickly run out of food, since to supply lines have been created and the residents of the border towns in Scotland have fled, taking their food with them.


date: August 14

text: August 14 – Battle of Aljubarrota: John of Aviz defeats John I of Castile in the decisive battle of the 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal. John of Aviz is crowned King John I of Portugal, ending Queen Beatrice's rule, and Portugal's independence from the Kingdom of Castile is secured.


date: August 15

text: August 15 – English invasion of Scotland (1385): With England's Army having left its borders undefended, Scottish and French troops invade England and plunder Cumberland in retaliation for the burning of Edinburgh.


date: August 17

text: August 17 – English invasion of Scotland (1385): Having accomplished nothing but destruction of property, the English Army begins its withdrawal from Scotland and returns to England.


date: August 31

text: 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.


date: September 7

text: September 7 – Scottish and French troops unsuccessfully try to besiege the walled city of Carlisle in England, but Sir Henry Percy, nicknamed "Hotspur" breaks the siege and the attackers withdraw to Scotland, ending the war between the two kingdoms.


date: September 18

text: September 18 – Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha, near Berat.


date: October 15

text: October 15 – Battle of Valverde: The armies of Portugal defeat Castile.


text: The Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming dynasty relents after eighteen tribute missions over the previous eight years, and agrees to invest King U of Goryeo.


text: Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde conquers parts of the Jalayirid Sultanate in western Persia, causing a rift between himself and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia.


date: January 11

text: January 11 – After learning that several of his cardinals had been debating whether to depose him on grounds that he is insane, Pope Urban VI orders the arrest of all of the cardinals within his reach. Giovanni da Amelia, Gentile di Sangro, Adam Eston, Ludovico Donato, Bartolomeo da Cogorno, and Marino del Giudice are all arrested and imprisoned and tortured at the castle of Nocera. Except for Eston, the cardinals arrested are put to death in Genoa by the end of 1386.


date: February 3

text: February 3 – (2 Muharram 787 AH) The madrasa (a religious school) of the Emir of Artuqid Empire, Majd al-Din Isa Al-Zahir, is dedicated and the date is placed on an inscription on the wall. The building is now a historic landmark in the city of Mardin, now located in Turkey.


date: December 31

text: December 31 – King Carlo III, ruler of the Kingdom of Naples, is crowned as King Károly II of Hungary by the Archbishop Demeter of Esztergom at Székesfehérvár after a group of Hungarian nobles helps him overthrow Queen Maria.


date: March 13

text: March 13 – Officials in the Kingdom of Scotland discover that 700 pounds sterling of bullion has been taken from the customs collectors of Edinburgh by John Stewart, the Earl of Carrick, who diverted the funds while acting as Guardian of Scotland.


text: Castello Estense in Ferrara (now in Italy)


text: Bodiam Castle (East Sussex, England)


date: July 17

text: July 17 – Charles VI of France marries Isabeau of Bavaria; the wedding is celebrated with France's first court ball.


date: July 21

text: July 21 – King Juan of Castile asserts in his will that he is the King of Portugal by virtue of his marriage in 1383 to Queen Beatriz of Portugal


text: August 6 – Edmund of Langley is elevated to become the first Duke of York in England.


text: August 14 – The Union of Krewo establishes the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania, through the proposed marriage of Queen regnant Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania, and sees the acceptance of Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite, and an end to the Greater Poland Civil War.


date: August 23

text: August 23 – In celebration of the marriage of Wilhelm the Courteous, Duke of Austria, to Jadwiga, Queen of Poland, the leaders of the city of Kraków grant amnesty to the prisoners in the city jail.


date: November 1

text: November 1 – Sigismund of Luxembourg, Margrave of Brandenburg and son of the late Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, enforces a 1373 agreement of betrothal and marries Mary, Queen of Hungary, citing an agreement that had been made by King Louis I of Hungary.


date: June 23

text: June 23 – Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (d. 1459)


date: August 1

text: August 1 – John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel, English noble (d. 1421)


text: August 15 – Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1417)


text: Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (approximate date; d. 1441)


text: Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence, English noble (d. 1429)


text: Jean I, Duke of Alençon (d. 1415)


date: February

text: February – Bugaya becomes the new Sultan of Kano in what is now northern Nigeria, upon the death of his brother Yaji I.


date: June 28

text: June 28 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire


date: August 7

text: August 7 – Joan of Kent, Dowager Princess of Wales, widow of Edward the Black Prince (b. 1328)


text: September 18 – Balša II, ruler of Zeta


text: October 15 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow


date: December 19

text: December 19 – Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. 1319)


text: Xu Da, Chinese military leader (b. 1332)


date: January 6

text: January 6 – Officials from the Swiss Canton of Lucerne, arrive in the village of Sempach, at the time under control of Austria and the Habsburg family, and offer Swiss citizenship and rights. Lucerne's representatives enter into similar pacts with other Austrian-controlled towns, including Meienberg, and bring with them soldiers from the Swiss Confederacy.


date: February 13

text: February 13 – The Republic of Venice takes control of the island of Corfu.


date: February 18

text: February 18 – Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania marries Queen Jadwiga of Poland, unifying the two nations.


date: May 9

text: May 9 – King John I of Portugal and King Richard II of England ratify the Treaty of Windsor.


date: August 17

text: August 17 – Karl Thopia, Prince of Albania, enters into an alliance with the Republic of Venice. Albania agrees to participate in all wars of the Republic or to pay auxiliary funds and supply grain, as well as to protect Venetian buyers in Albania. [19] In return, Venice supplies a galley to Albania and protect Albania's coast from the Ottoman Empire.


date: October 1

text: October 1 – The "Wonderful Parliament" is opened at Westminster by King Richard's Chancellor Michael de la Pole, while King Richard declines to attend after failing to call off his decision to summon the members.


text: Abu al-Abbas is reinstated as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco.


date: January 14

text: January 14 – The Austrian garrison at Meienberg responds to the overtures from the Swiss canton of Lucerne and kills over 140 of the Swiss Confederacy troops, starting a war between the two nations.


date: February 24

text: February 24 – Elizabeth of Bosnia, the mother of the overthrown Queen Mary of Hungary and Croatia, arranges the assassination of Charles III of Naples, the ruler of Hungary, Naples, Achaea and Croatia, with the result that Mary is reinstated as Queen of Hungary and Croatia; Charles' son, Ladislaus, becomes King of Naples; and a period of interregnum begins in Achaea, lasting until 1396. The rule of Achaea is sought by numerous pretenders, none of whom can be considered to have reigned.


date: April 29

text: April 29 – The Lithuanian Army, led by Skirgaila, conquers the Principality of Smolensk in the Battle of the Vikhra River.Prince Sviatoslav IV, who had supported a rebellion by Grand Duke Jolaila's younger brother Andrei of Polotsk, is killed in combat and Smolensk becomes a vassal state of Lithuania.