- 1384
Year 1384 was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events
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May /September 3 -Lisbon is besieged by the Castilian army, during the1383-1385 Crisis .
*August 16 - TheHongwu Emperor of Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitates 100 floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decides to pardon them, on the grounds that it was not intentional.
*November 16 - Jadwiga is crowned "King" ofPoland following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.
* The Hongwu Emperor of China reinstates the civil service examination system for drafting officials after suspending the examination system since1373 in favor of a recommendation system to office.
* TheNasrid princes of Granada replace Abu al-Abbas with Abu Faris Musa ibn Faris as ruler of theMarinid dynasty in present dayMorocco .
* Zain Al-Abidin succeeds his father, Shah Shuja, as ruler of theMuzaffarids in centralPersia .
* Shortly before his death,John Wycliffe sends out tracts againstPope Urban VI , who had not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.
* Qara Muhammad succeeds Bairam Khawaja as ruler of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present dayArmenia and northernIraq .
*Timur conquers northern territories of theJalayirid Empire in westernPersia .
*Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is founded inGloucestershire ,England .Births
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January 6 -Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (d.1408 )
*August -Antoine, Duke of Brabant (d.1415 )
*August 11 -Yolande of Aragon (d.1442 )
*"date unknown"
**StFrances of Rome (d.1440 )
**Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana (d.1411 )Deaths
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January 30 -Louis II of Flanders (b.1330 )
*June 8 -Kanami , 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 - Titular KingLouis I of Naples (b.1339 )
*December 23 -Thomas II 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 Ua Conchobair , King of Connacht
*"probable" -Liubartas , King of Galicia
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