1384

Year 1384 (MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• 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 notes while fighting over them. Under the law, this is considered to 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.
• November 16 – Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.

Date unknown

• 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.
• 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.

Births

• January 6 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (d. 1408)
• August – Antoine, Duke of Brabant (d. 1415)
• August 11 – Yolande of Aragon (d. 1442)
• date unknown
  • St Frances of Rome (d. 1440)
  • Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana (d. 1411)

Deaths

• January 30 – Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
• May – William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish magnate. (b.c. 1327)
• June 8 – Kanami, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1333)
• August 6 – Francesco I of Lesbos
• August 20 – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
• September 10 – Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and nominal Duchess of Brittany (b. 1319)
• September 20 – Titular King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)
• December 23 – Thomas II Preljubović, ruler of Epirus
• December 31 – John Wycliffe, English theologian, Bible translator and Catholic reform campaigner
• date unknown
  • John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler
  • Peter of Enghien, Count of Lecce
  • Ruaidri mac Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht
• probable – Liubartas, King of Galicia

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