September 9: Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of King Richard II and accused conspirator against the King, is assassinated while under house arrest in Calais.
January 22 – The 23rd Parliament of King Richard II of England assembles after having been summoned on November 30, and re-elects Sir John Bussy as the Speaker of the House of Commons, then meets for three weeks.
February 12 – The English Parliament adjourns, and King Richard II gives royal assent to several acts passed, including the Act against riding with weapons, and barring the carrying of a lancegay (a light spear) except in wartime. Another law places a penalty on “him who taketh another’s horse or best for the King’s service without sufficient warrant.[3]
March 28 – King Charles VI of France and King Richard II of England sign a treaty settling the final issues remaining from the War of the Breton Succession, restoring the land confiscated from John IV, Duke of Brittany.
August 28 – As part of a division of the state of Holstein, the northernmost member of the Holy Roman Empire, between Count Albert II and his brother Count Gerhard VI (following the death of their uncle, Nicholas, Gerhard receives the Duchy of Schleswig and nearly all of Rendsburg, while Albert receives HOlstein-Segeberg.[9]
October 13 – Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London since June 8 when he was chosen by King Richard II following the June 6 death of the Lord Mayor Adam Bamme, is overwhelmingly approved by London’s freemen to serve permanently after Whittington had negotiated a deal to settle its debt to the King for £10,000.[11]
The Lin Kuan rebellion by the Kam people and Miao people of China in the Huguang province (now parts of the Hubei and Hunan provinces, against the Ming dynasty, ends after less than a year as Lin Kuan and his surviving followers are executed. Historical accounts indicate that more than 21,000 of the Kam civilians were killed during the suppression of the insurrection.[12]
^Williams, Deanne (2016). “Isabelle de France, Child Bride”. In Martin, Catherine Gimelli; Melehy, Hassan (eds.). French Connections in the English Renaissance. Routledge. pp. 32–33.
^Ngô, Sĩ Liên (1993), Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư [The Complete History of Dai Viet] (in Vietnamese) (Nội các quan bản (Imperial Cabinet) ed.), Hanoi: Social Science Publishing House, pp. 288–291
^ abErich Trapp, et al.,Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1976) ISBN 3-7001-3003-1
^Seward, Desmond (1982). The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453. New York: Atheneum. p. 142. ISBN 0-689-70628-6.
^Detlev Kraack, “Die frühen Schauenburger als Grafen von Holstein und Stormarn (12.-14. Jahrhundert)” (“The early Schauenburg family as Counts of Holstein and Stormarn (12th-14th centuries)”, in: E. Imberger, D. Lohmeier and I. Momsen (eds.): Die Fürsten des Landes. Herzöge und Grafen von Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg (“The princes of the land: Dukes and counts of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg) (Neumünster, 2008) pp.28-51
^“Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of”, Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), Volume 12, ed. by Hugh Chisholm (Cambridge University Press, 1911) p.130
