1385

Year 1385 (MCCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1385 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1385 in poetry
1385 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1385
MCCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita2138
Armenian calendar834
ԹՎ ՊԼԴ
Assyrian calendar6135
Balinese saka calendar1306–1307
Bengali calendar792
Berber calendar2335
English Regnal year8 Ric. 2 – 9 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar1929
Burmese calendar747
Byzantine calendar6893–6894
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4081 or 4021
    — to —
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4082 or 4022
Coptic calendar1101–1102
Discordian calendar2551
Ethiopian calendar1377–1378
Hebrew calendar5145–5146
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1441–1442
 - Shaka Samvat1306–1307
 - Kali Yuga4485–4486
Holocene calendar11385
Igbo calendar385–386
Iranian calendar763–764
Islamic calendar786–787
Japanese calendarShitoku 2
(至徳２年)
Javanese calendar1298–1299
Julian calendar1385
MCCCLXXXV
Korean calendar3718
Minguo calendar527 before ROC
民前527年
Nanakshahi calendar−83
Thai solar calendar1927–1928
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1511 or 1130 or 358
    — to —
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
1512 or 1131 or 359

Events

January–December
  • July 17 – Charles VI of France marries Isabeau of Bavaria; the wedding is celebrated with France's first court ball.
  • August 6 – Edmund of Langley is elevated to become the first Duke of York in England.
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • August 31 – King Richard II of England begins an invasion of Scotland.[1] The English burn Holyrood and Edinburgh, but return home without a decisive battle.[2]
  • September 18 – Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha, near Berat.
  • October 15 – Battle of Valverde: The armies of Portugal defeat Castile.
  • December – A group of Hungarian nobles helps Charles III of Naples to overthrow Queen Mary, as ruler of Hungary and Croatia.

Date unknown
  • 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.
  • Olav IV of Norway is elected as titular King of Sweden, in opposition to the unpopular King Albert.
  • 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.
  • Construction of:

Births
  • June 23 – Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (d. 1459)
  • August 1 – John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel, English noble (d. 1421)
  • August 15 – Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1417)
  • date unknown
    • Jean I, Duke of Alençon (d. 1415)
    • Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (approximate date; d. 1441)
    • Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence, English noble (d. 1429)
    • Mircea I of Wallachia (d. 1418)

Deaths

References
  1. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  2. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 109–113. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
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