1384

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* 1360s
* 1370s
* 1380s
* 1390s
* 1400s

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* 1381
* 1382
* 1383
* 1384
* 1385
* 1386
* 1387

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1384 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1384
MCCCLXXXIV

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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

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

## Events

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### January-December

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* 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.

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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)

## References

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1. ^ Rogers, Clifford J. (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Oxford University Press. pp. 511–513\. ISBN 978-0-19-533403-6.
2. ^ Frost, Robert I. (2015). The Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania (1st ed.). Oxford, UK. p. 17\. ISBN 978-0-19-820869-3. OCLC 880557774.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. ^ "Berkeley [née Clivedon], Katherine, Lady Berkeley (d. 1385), benefactor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54435. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved March 25, 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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