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Year 1384 (MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- March 3 – King Richard II of England summons the members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords to assemble at Salisbury on April 29.
- April 29 – The Parliament of England opens a four-week session at Salisbury at the palace of the Bishop of Salisbury. Sir James Pickering is elected as Speaker of the House of Commons for the third consecutive time of his career.
- May 27 – The English Parliament adjourns and King Richard II gives royal assent to laws passed during the session.
- May 29 – The army of the Crown of Castile army begins the siege of Lisbon, capital of the Kingdom of Portugal.ref>Miguel Duarte, Luís, Batalhas da História de Portugal – Guerra pela Independência, Academia Portuguesa de História, Lisboa, 2006, Vol. IV, pp. 88-92</ref>[1]
- June 15 – Antoniotto I Adorno is elected as Doge of the Republic of Genoa following the death of the Doge Leonardo Montaldo from bubonic plague the day before.[2] Adorno serves as the Republic’s chief executive until 1390.
July–December
- 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.
- September 3 – The siege of Lisbon by the Castilian Army ends as the Portuguese defenders protect the capital of the kingdom of Portugal.
- September 28 – King Richard II summons the English Parliament to meet on Novembeer 12.
- November 12 – The 12th parliament of King Richard II assembles and elects James Pickering as Speaker of the House for the fourth consecutive time.
- November 16 – At the age of 10, Jadwiga is crowned “King” of Poland in Kraków following the 1382 death of her father, King Louis.[3]
- December 14 – The second assembly in 1384 of the English Parliament is adjourned.
- 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.[4]
Births
- 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 also known as al-Shahid al-Awwal, author of al-Lum’ah al-Dimashqiyah (b. ca 1334)
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Oreste, Giuseppe (1960). “Dizionario biografico degli Italiano”. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
- ^ 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) - ^ “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 March 25, 2021. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)