1384

January–December

• May-September 3 - Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal.
• 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 be 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 - 10-year-old Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland in Kraków following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.
• December 25 - Use of the Spanish era dating system in the Crown of Castile is suppressed.

  Unknown Date

• The Hongwu Emperor of 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.
• 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.
• 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 has not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.
• Qara Muhammad succeeds Bairam Khawaja, as ruler of the Kara Koyunlu, in modern-day Armenia and northern Iraq.
• Timur conquers the 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
• August - Antoine, Duke of Brabant
• August 11 - Yolande of Aragon
• date unknown
• * St Frances of Rome
• * Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana
• * Sigismondo Polcastro, Italian physician and natural philosopher

  Deaths

• January 30 - Louis II, Count of Flanders
• May - William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish magnate
• June 8 - Kan'ami, Japanese actor and playwright
• August 6 - Francesco I of Lesbos
• August 20 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life
• September 10 - Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and nominal Duchess of Brittany
• September 20 - Louis I, Duke of Anjou
• October - Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany
• December 23 - Thomas 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 Ó Conchobair, King of Connacht
• probable - Liubartas, King of Galicia
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