1384
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| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1350s 1360s 1370s - 1380s - 1390s 1400s 1410s |
| Years: | 1381 1382 1383 - 1384 - 1385 1386 1387 |
| 1384 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1384 MCCCLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2137 |
| Armenian calendar | 833 ԹՎ ՊԼԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -460 – -459 |
| Berber calendar | 2334 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1928 |
| Burmese calendar | 746 |
| Chinese calendar | 4020/4080-12-8 (癸亥年十二月初八日) — to —
4021/4081-11-19(甲子年十一月十九日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1100 – 1101 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1376 – 1377 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5144 – 5145 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1439 – 1440 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1306 – 1307 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4485 – 4486 |
| Holocene calendar | 11384 |
| Iranian calendar | 762 – 763 |
| Islamic calendar | 785 – 786 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3717 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1927 |
Year 1384 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- May / September 3 - Lisbon is besieged by the Castilian army, during the 1383-1385 Crisis.
- August 16 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitates 100 floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decides to pardon them, seeing as how their intention was not to tear up the money.
- The Hongwu Emperor of China reinstates the civil service examination system for drafting officials after suspending the examination system since 1373 in favor of a recommendation system to office.
- The Nasrid princes of Granada replace Abu al-Abbas with Abu Faris Musa ibn Faris as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present day Morocco.
- Zain Al-Abidin succeeds his father, Shah Shuja, as ruler of the Muzaffarids in central Persia.
- Shortly before his death, John Wycliffe sends out tracts against Pope Urban VI, who had not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.
- Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland after the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.
- Qara Muhammad succeeds Bairam Khawaja as ruler of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present day Armenia and northern Iraq.
- Timur conquers northern territories of the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia.
- Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is founded in Gloucestershire, England.
[edit] Births
- Antoine, Duke of Brabant (d. 1415)
- St Frances of Rome (d. 1440)
- Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana (d. 1411)
[edit] Deaths
- January 30 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
- June 8 - Kanami, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1333)
- August 20 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
- September 20 - Titular King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)
- December 31 - John Wycliffe, English theologian, Bible translator and Catholic reform campaigner
- Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and nominal Duchess of Brittany (b. 1319)
- John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler
- Lubart, King of Galicia
- Peter of Enghien, Count of Lecce
- Ruaidri mac Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht
