1380s

The 1380s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1380, and ended on December 31, 1389.

1380

January–December

February – Olaf II of Denmark also becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margrete (Margaret) as regent. Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as parts of Norway, pass under the Danish crown.
March 13 – The southern England town of Winchelsea in East Sussex is attacked and burned by an expeditionary force from France for a second time.^[1]
May 31 – Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila signs the secret Treaty of Dovydiškės, with the Teutonic Knights. This sparks a civil war with his uncle Kęstutis.
June 21 – Battle of Chioggia: the Venetian fleet defeats the Genoese.
July 27 – Henry Bolingbroke marries Mary de Bohun at Arundel Castle.
September 8 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow resist a large invasion by the Blue Horde, Lithuania and Ryazan, stopping their advance.
September 16 – Charles V of France is succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, Charles VI.
October 2 – Caterina Visconti marries her first cousin, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, later Duke of Milan, at the Church of San Giovanni in Conca.
November 3 – Charles VI of France, who succeeded his father (Charles V of France) in September, is crowned.

Date unknown

Sir William Walworth, a member of the Fishmongers Guild, becomes Lord Mayor of London for the second time.
Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde dethrones Mamai of the Blue Horde. The two hordes unite to form the Golden Horde.
Karim Al-Makhdum arrives in Jolo, and builds a mosque.
The Hongwu Emperor purges the chancellor of China, Hu Weiyong, and abolishes that office, as he imposes direct imperial rule over the six ministries of central government, for the Ming Empire.
The last islands of Polynesia are discovered and inhabited.
The Companhia das Naus is founded by King Ferdinand I of Portugal.
The imposter Paul Palaiologos Tagaris, having been appointed Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by Pope Urban VI, takes up residence in his see at Chalcis.

1380

February 11 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (d. 1459)
September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
November 27 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (d. 1416)
date unknown
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Bistami, Ottoman Sufi (d. 1455)
- Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Tarentum (d. 1449)
- Nguyễn Trãi, Confucian scholar (d. 1442)
- Anne de Bourbon, French noble (d. 1408)
- Jan Želivský, Hussite priest (d. 1422)
probable
- Huitzilihuitl II, 2nd Tlatoani (king) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1396–1417, father of Moctezuma I (d. c. 1417)^[14]
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1429)
- King Lukeni lua Nimi of the Kingdom of Kongo (d. 1420)
- Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (d. 1471)
- Parameshvara, Indian mathematician (d. 1425)

1381

January 13 – Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (d. 1447)^[15]
October 13 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1415)
date unknown
- Anna of Celje, Queen consort of Poland (d. 1416)
- Johann Schiltberger, German traveller and writer (d. 1440)
- John I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1434)
- Saint Rita of Cascia (d. 1457)
- Itzcóatl, fourth Tlatoani for the Mexica Empire (d. 1440)

1382

January 23 – Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (d. 1439)
date unknown
- Frederick IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1439)
- Joan, princess regent of Navarre (d. 1413)
- Lope de Barrientos, powerful bishop in Castile
- Dawit I of Ethiopia (d. 1413)
probable – Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (d. 1459)

1383

April 30 – Anne of Gloucester, English countess, granddaughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1438)
September 4
- Antipope Felix V (d. 1451)
- Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (d. 1451)
November 9 – Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1441)
date unknown – Pope Eugene IV (d. 1447)^[16]

1384

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)

1385

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)

1386

March 12 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1428)
June 24 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)
August 9 or September 16 – King Henry V of England (d. 1422)
date unknown – Niccolò Piccinino, Italian mercenary (d. 1444)
probable – Donatello, Italian sculptor (d. 1466)^[17]

1387

July 6 – Queen Blanche I of Navarre (d. 1441)
date unknown – Henriette, Countess of Montbéliard, regent of Württemberg (d. 1444)

1388

September 14 – Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
date unknown
- Juliana Berners, English writer
- Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
- Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (d. 1428)
- Dai Jin, Chinese painter (d. 1462)
- Yiğit Şahiner, Turkish musician, historian

1389

March 1 – Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop (d. 1459)
June 20 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
April 10 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
November 9 – Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (d. 1409)^[18]
December 5 – Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Polish cardinal and statesman (d. 1455)
December 24 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)

date unknown – Newaya Maryam, Emperor of Ethiopia 1383

March 1 – Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
March 3 – Hugh III of Arborea
June 5 – Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
June 8 – Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
June 15 – John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)
July 7 James of Baux, titular Latin Emperor
October 22 – King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
December 7 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337)
December 23 – Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia (b. 1320)
date unknown – Radu I, Prince of Wallachia

1380

April 29 – Saint Catherine of Siena, Italian theologian (b. 1347)
May 5 – Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr
July 13 – Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France (b. c. 1320)
July 26 – Emperor Kōmyō, former Emperor of Japan (b. 1322)
September 16 – King Charles V of France (b. 1338)^[19]
December 29 – Elizabeth of Poland, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1305)
date unknown
- Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1340)
- Nissim of Gerona, Catalan rabbi (b. 1320)
- Khadijah of the Maldives, sovereign sultan of the Maldives
- Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh al-Khalīlī, Syrian astronomer (b. 1320)

1381

March 24 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1331 or 1332)^[20]
May 15 – Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
June 14 – Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (murdered)
June 15
- John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (murdered)
- Wat Tyler, English rebel (murdered)
July 15 – John Ball, renegade priest (executed)
December 2 – John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
December 27 – Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician

1382

January 5 – Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (b. 1355)
February 8 – Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (b. 1328)
February 15 – William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (b. c. 1339)
April 5 – Janusz Suchywilk, Polish nobleman
May 12 – Queen Joanna I of Naples (b. 1327) (murdered)
July 11 – Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (b. 1325)
August 3 or August 15 – Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1297)
August 13 – Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
September 10 – King Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)^[21]
September 29 – 'Izz al-Din ibn Rukn al-Din Mahmud, malik of Sistan
October 13 – King Peter II of Cyprus
October 18 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (b. 1331)
November 27 – Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (b. 1340) (killed in battle)
Louis Fadrique, Count of Salona

1384

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. ca 1334)

1385

June 28 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire
August 7 – Joan of Kent, Dowager Princess of Wales, widow of Edward, the Black Prince (b. 1328)
September 18 – Balša II, ruler of Zeta
October 15 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
December 19 – Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. 1319)
date unknown
- Xu Da, Chinese military leader (b. 1332)

1386

July 9 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (in battle) (b. 1351)
August 20 – Bo Jonsson (Grip), royal marshal of Sweden
September 23 – Dan I of Wallachia (in battle)
December 31 – Johanna of Bavaria, Queen of Bohemia (b. c. 1362)
date unknown
- Al-Wathiq II, caliph of Cairo
- Takatsukasa Fuyumichi, Japanese nobleman (b. 1330)
probable – William Langland, English poet (b. 1332)

1387

January – Elizabeth of Bosnia, regent of Hungary
January 1 – King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)^[22]
January 6 – Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
July 20 – Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
July 22 – Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
August 23 – King Olaf IV of Norway/Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)
date unknown
- Richard Óg Burke, second Clanricarde of Ireland
- Sir David Hanmer, Welsh judge, father-in-law of Owain Glyndŵr

1388

March 4 – Thomas Usk, English author
August 14 – James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (killed in battle)
July 15 – Agnes of Durazzo, titular Latin empress consort of Constantinople (d. 1313)
August 15 – Adalbertus Ranconis de Ericinio, Bohemian theologian
date unknown
- Simon de Burley, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq of Delhi
- Uskhal Khan, Emperor Tianyuan of Northern Yuan

1389

March 14 – Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II, Sultan of Delhi (murdered)
May 19 – Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
June 15 (in the Battle of Kosovo)
- Prince Lazar, Prince of Serbia (b. 1329)
- Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
- Miloš Obilić, Serbian knight
October 15 – Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
December 31 (assassination)
- Chang of Goryeo, deposed Korean king (b. 1381)
- U of Goryeo, Korean king (b. 1365)
date unknown
- Isabella, Countess of Fife, Scottish noblewoman (b. 1320)
- Hayam Wuruk, ruler of the Majapahit Empire (b. 1334)
- Ignatius Saba I, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Tur Abdin.^[23]

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[Fires-1] [1]
"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p27

[brook_28-2] [2]
Brook, Timothy (1998). The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22154-3.

[3] [3]
"Earthquake Synod." In Cross, F. L. and E. A. Livingstone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. London: Oxford UP, 1974. p. 437.

[4] "Earthquake Synod." In Cross, F. L. and E. A. Livingstone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. London: Oxford UP, 1974. p. 437.

[4] [4]
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[5] [5]
Barsoum, Ephrem (2003). The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by Matti Moosa (2nd ed.). Gorgias Press. p. 495.

[6] [6]
Lock, Peter (2013). The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. Routledge. p. 130. ISBN 9781135131371.

[7] [7]
Rogers, Clifford J. (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Oxford University Press. pp. 511–513. ISBN 978-0-19-533403-6.

[8] [8]
Frost, Robert I. (2015). The Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania (1st ed.). Oxford, UK. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-19-820869-3. OCLC 880557774.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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"Berkeley [née Clivedon], Katherine, Lady Berkeley (d. 1385), benefactor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54435. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2021-03-25. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[CBH-10] [10]
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 109–113. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[11] [11]
Mayson, Richard (2012). Port and the Douro. Infinite Ideas. p. 4. ISBN 9781908474711.

[12] [12]
Woodward, Bernard Bolingbroke; Cates, William Leist Readwin (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. Lee and Shepard. p. 313.

[lang98-159-13] [13]
Langlois, John D. Jr. (1998). "The Hung-wu reign, 1368–1398". The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 159. ISBN 0-521-24332-7.

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[15] [15]
"Saint Colette | Biography & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 29 April 2022.

[16] [16]
"Eugenius IV | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 10 May 2021.

[17] [17]
"Donatello | Italian sculptor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2018.

[18] [18]
Panton, James (24 February 2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy. Scarecrow Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8.

[19] [19]
"Charles V | king of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2018.

[20] [20]
"Saint Catherine of Sweden | Swedish saint". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 18 March 2019.

[21] [21]
"Louis I | king of Hungary". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

[22] [22]
"Charles II | king of Navarre". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 March 2019.

[23] [23]
Kiraz, George A. (2011). "Sobo, Ignatius". In Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Gorgias Press. pp. 381–382. Retrieved 26 December 2020.

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