1384

'Years:' 1381 1382 1383 - 1384 - 1385 1386 1387

'Decades:' 1350s 1360s 1370s - '1380s' - 1390s 1400s 1410s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Year '1384' was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

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Deaths

Events

★ May / September 3 - Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1383-1385 Crisis.

★ The Nasrid princes of Granada replace Abu al-Abbas with Abu Faris Musa ibn Faris as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present 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 had not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.

★ Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland after the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.

★ Qara Muhammad succeeds Bairam Khawaja as ruler of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present day Armenia and northern Iraq.

★ Timur conquers northern territories of the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia.

★ Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is founded in Gloucestershire, England.

Births

★ Antoine, Duke of Brabant (died 1415)

★ St Frances of Rome (died 1440)

★ Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana (died 1411)

Deaths

★ January 30 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)

★ June 8 - Kanami, Japanese actor and playwright (born 1333)

★ August 20 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (born 1340)

★ September 20 - Titular King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)

★ December 31 - John Wycliffe, English theologian, Bible translator and Catholic reform campaigner.

★ Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and nominal Duchess of Brittany (born 1319)

★ John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler

★ Lubart, King of Galicia

★ Peter of Enghien, Count of Lecce

★ Ruaidri mac Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht