April 12– Admiral Arundel of the English Navy brings 68 captured ships from Margate battle to the port of Orwell.[3]
May 1– With a larger squadron of almost 60 ships, Arundel departs from Orwell and sails to the British-controlled French port of Brest, at the time under siege by Jean de Montfort.[3]
May 17– At Caffa, one of the Balkan colonies of the Republic of Genoa, the Genoese Army thwarts an attack at Solkhat (Sorcati) by the Tatars.[4]
May 28– Anticipating a war with Burma, China’s Emperor orders the troops at his forts on the Burmese border to increase the height of their walls and to begin making gunpowder to increase their supply.[5]
June 4 – Queen Mary of Hungary is rescued from imprisonment after being held captive by Croatian rebels.
July–September
July 7 – A Mongol Army unit, led by Naghachu, ambushes and massacres a Chinese Army division led by Chen Yong (陳鏞), Marquis of Linjiang, who is killed in the attack.[6]
July 14 – The Chinese Army commander, General Feng Sheng, leads troops across the Liao River defeats Naghachu’s Mongol troops and takes Naghachu as a prisoner of war.[6]
August 22 – Olaf, King of Norway and Denmark and claimant to the throne of Sweden, dies. The vacant thrones come under the regency of his mother Margaret I of Denmark, who will soon become queen in her own right.
September 8 – General Feng Sheng is removed from command of the Chinese Army by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang[6] and replaced by General Lan Yu.[7]
November 17 – The three rebel Lords Appellant— Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick arrive at King Richard’s palace at Westminster after traveling with 300 men on horseback to confront the King, and effectively take control of the government of England. The Lords demand that advisers Neville, Pole, De Vere, Tresilian and Brembre be held in custody until a trial can take place, and the King agrees after they threaten to take the government by force.[9]
November 19 – By order of the Lords Appellant, Sir Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench of England, is arrested along with other nobles loyal to King Richard II, and charged with treason for malfeasance in office, with trial to take place four months later at Parliament in February.[10]
November – The Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of China directs General Lan Yu to attack the Mongol forces led by Tögüs Temür, whom the Emperor Zhu had deposed. The confrontation between Lan Yu and Tögüs Temür will culminate six months later at the Battle of Buir Lake, 500 miles (800 km) north of Beijing.
December 19 – At the Battle of Radcot Bridge in England, forces loyal to King Richard II are defeated by the Lords Appellant, a group of three rebellious barons—. King Richard is taken prisoner, and not freed until he agrees to dismiss all the councillors in his court.[11] Richard continues as the nominal King of England, with the Lords Appellant administering the kingdom.
^ abcJonathan Sumption,The Hundred Years War, Volume 3: Divided Houses (Faber & Faber, 2011) pp.604-605 ISBN 9780571266562,
^Evgeny Khvalkov, The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region (Taylor & Francis, 2017) ISBN 9781351623063
^Michael Charney, Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900 (Brill, 2018) p.44 ISBN 9789047406921
^ abcDreyer, Edward L (1988). “Military origins of Ming China”. In Mote, Frederick W.; Twitchett, Denis C (eds.). The Cambridge History of China Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521243327.
^Varanini, Gian Maria (1988). “Vicenza nel Trecento: Istituzioni, classe dirigente, economia” [History of Vicenza, II, The Medieval Era]. Storia di Vicenza, II, L’Età Medievale [Vicenza in the 14th Century: Institutions, Ruling Class, Economy] (in Italian). Vicenza: Neri Pozza editore. p. 239.
^Jonathan Sumption,The Hundred Years War, Volume 3: Divided Houses (Faber & Faber, 2011) ISBN 9780571266562,
^Harriss, Gerald (2005). Shaping the Nation: England, 1360–1461. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 463. ISBN 0-19-822816-3.
