1384

Year 1384 (MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

1384 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1384 MCCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2137
Armenian calendar	833 ԹՎ ՊԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	6134
Balinese saka calendar	1305–1306
Bengali calendar	790–791
Berber calendar	2334
English Regnal year	7 Ric. 2 – 8 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1928
Burmese calendar	746
Byzantine calendar	6892–6893
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4081 or 3874     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4082 or 3875
Coptic calendar	1100–1101
Discordian calendar	2550
Ethiopian calendar	1376–1377
Hebrew calendar	5144–5145
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1440–1441
- Shaka Samvat	1305–1306
- Kali Yuga	4484–4485
Holocene calendar	11384
Igbo calendar	384–385
Iranian calendar	762–763
Islamic calendar	785–786
Japanese calendar	Eitoku 4 / Shitoku 1 (至徳元年)
Javanese calendar	1297–1298
Julian calendar	1384 MCCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar	3717
Minguo calendar	528 before ROC 民前528年
Nanakshahi calendar	−84
Thai solar calendar	1926–1927
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 1510 or 1129 or 357     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 1511 or 1130 or 358

Events

January–December

• May – September 3 – Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal.^[1]
• 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.
• November 16 – 10-year-old Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland in Kraków following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.^[2]
• 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.^[3]

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)