1384

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1384 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1384
MCCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita2137
Armenian calendar833
ԹՎ ՊԼԳ
Assyrian calendar6134
Balinese saka calendar1305–1306
Bengali calendar791
Berber calendar2334
English Regnal year7 Ric. 2  8 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar1928
Burmese calendar746
Byzantine calendar6892–6893
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4080 or 4020
     to 
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4081 or 4021
Coptic calendar1100–1101
Discordian calendar2550
Ethiopian calendar1376–1377
Hebrew calendar5144–5145
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1440–1441
 - Shaka Samvat1305–1306
 - Kali Yuga4484–4485
Holocene calendar11384
Igbo calendar384–385
Iranian calendar762–763
Islamic calendar785–786
Japanese calendarEitoku 4 / Shitoku 1
(至徳元年)
Javanese calendar1297–1298
Julian calendar1384
MCCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar3717
Minguo calendar528 before ROC
民前528年
Nanakshahi calendar−84
Thai solar calendar1926–1927
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1510 or 1129 or 357
     to 
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1511 or 1130 or 358

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • 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 ("Black Sheep Turkomans"), 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 (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)
    • Sigismondo Polcastro, Italian physician and natural philosopher (d. 1473)

Deaths

  • January 30 Louis II, Count of Flanders (b. 1330)
  • May William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish magnate (b.c. 1327)
  • June 8 Kan'ami, 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 Louis I, Duke of Anjou (b. 1339)
  • October Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1350)
  • 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
  • Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili al-Jizzini known as al-Shahid al-Awwal. Author of Al-Lum'a al-Dimashqiyya (book) (b. ca1334)

References

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