December 6: João, Master of Aviz, carries out the overthrow of the Portuguese government, starting with the assassination of Queen Beatriz’s uncle, Count Andeiro
February 11 – King Carlo III of Naples confiscates the property of Pietro d’Enghien and Luigi d’Enghien (both of whom are in Venice) and declares them both to be rebels against the Neapolitan crown.[2]
February 2 – The Doge of Genoa agrees to release King James I of Cyprus from captivity in return for an agreement that the King’s son, Janus, will become the new prisoner.[3]
February 23 – The English Parliament opens at Westminster for its 9th session under the rule of King Richard II, and Sir James Pickering is elected as the Speaker of the House of Commons.
March 10 – The English Parliament adjourns. Among the laws given royal assent by King Richard are the pardon of most “offenders in the last insurrection, with few exceptions” and a statute of limitations on actions for trespass.[4]
March 16 – In France, Évrart de Trémaugon, an adviser to King Charles V, interrupts the King’s dinner at the Louvre Palace and accuses Guillaume de Chamborant, the King’s equerry, of the murder of Evrart’s brother Yvon.Famiglietti 2015, vol.1, p.279. Charges are eventually dropped against Chamborant 16 months later and Evrart is ordered on July 30, 1484, to pay 500 Livres tournois, equivalent to more than 404 kilograms of fine silver, to Chamborant.[5]
March 28 – In a proclamation made by her envoys to Poland, Elizabeth, the former Queen consort of Hungary and regent for her 10-year-old daughter Mary, Queen of Hungary, formally releases the Kingdom of Poland from an oath of loyalty to Mary and announces that she will send her 9-year-old daughter Hedwig to be the queen of Poland.[6]
June 16 – At a meeting of the Polish nobles at Sieradz, Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia announces that he will claim the crown as King of Poland. Queen Elizabeth of Hungary sends an army of 12,000 soldiers two months later to devastate the Duchy of Masovia and its capital, Warsaw, forcing Siemowit to give up his claims to the throne[9]
August 20 – King Richard II summons the English Parliament five months after the adjournment of the last session, and directs the members to assemble at Westminster on October 26.
August 27 – (End of Tawthalin 745 ME) Queen Maha Devi gives word to the army of Hanthawaddy that she will suppress the rebellion by Prince Binnya Nwe, with an attack to be launched at the end of Burma’s rainy season.[11]
September 12 – Shortly before his death, King Fernando I of Portugal creates the kingdom’s first police force, the Quadrilheiros, initially consisting of 20 of the strongest men in Lisbon, and gives them the authority to arrest criminals.[12] The concept of a city police force is expanded to other communities and becomes the basis for the Polícia de Segurança Pública.
September 19 – In Macedonia in Greece, the city of Serres is conquered and occupied by forces of the Ottoman Empire and renamed Siroz. Under the terms of surrender, the Greek population keeps control of the churches and most homes inside the walled city, while the Ottoman Turks settle outside the walls, which are eventually torn down.[13]
October 26 – The English Parliament is opened at Westminster for a one-month session. The House of Commons re-elects Sir James Pickering as Speaker of the House.
October 28 – (3rd waxing of Nadaw, 745 ME) With the rainy season over in Burma, Queen Maha Dewi of Hanthawaddy dispatches armies from Pegu, Martaban and Myaungmya to attack her rebel nephew, Binnya Nwe, at Dagon.[11]
November 19 – (10th waning of Nadaw 745 ME) The Pegu army of Smin Maru is driven back by the rebel Nwe, while General Zeik-Bye declines to intervene.[15]
November 26 – The English Parliament adjourns and King Richard II gives royal assent to multiple laws, including “a confirmation of the liberties of the church”, a prohibition of exports of weapons or food to the Kingdom of Scotland without royal approval, and the Vagabonds Act.[4]
December 10 – (12th waning of Pyatho 745 ME) After breaking through Queen Maha Dewi’s last defenses, Binnya Nwe’s troops reach the walls of Pegu and forces a stalemate between Queen Maha and Prince Nwe.[15]
December 16 – As Queen Beatriz of Portugal flees Lisbon toward Alenquer. João, Master of Aviz is declared to be the new regent.[17]
^Morice, Hyacinthe (1744). Mémoires Pour Servir De Preuves A L’Histoire Ecclesiastique Et Civile De Bretagne. Vol. 2. Osmont. p. 477.
^Halecki, Oscar (1991). Jadwiga of Anjou and the Rise of East Central Europe. Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. p. 101. ISBN 0-88033-206-9.
^ abPan Hla, Nai (2005) [1968]. Razadarit Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (8th printing ed.). Yangon: Armanthit Sarpay. pp. 125–129.
^PSP, ed. (2012), A História (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Policia de Segurança Pública, archived from the original on 16 March 2010
^Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (1987). “Serres”. Brill’s First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Volume VII: S–Ṭaiba. Leiden: BRILL. p. 234. ISBN 90-04-08265-4.
