1385

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Calendar year

Millennium:  | 2nd millennium

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Centuries:  |

* 13th century
* 14th century
* 15th century

Decades:  |

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

Years:  |

* 1382
* 1383
* 1384
* 1385
* 1386
* 1387
* 1388

1385 by topic

Leaders

* Political entities
* State leaders
* Religious leaders

Birth and death categories
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1385 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1385
MCCCLXXXV

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Ab urbe condita| 2138
Armenian calendar| 834
ԹՎ ՊԼԴ
Assyrian calendar| 6135
Balinese saka calendar| 1306–1307
Bengali calendar| 792
Berber calendar| 2335
English Regnal year| 8 Ric. 2 – 9 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar| 1929
Burmese calendar| 747
Byzantine calendar| 6893–6894
Chinese calendar| 甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4082 or 3875
— to —
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4083 or 3876
Coptic calendar| 1101–1102
Discordian calendar| 2551
Ethiopian calendar| 1377–1378
Hebrew calendar| 5145–5146
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1441–1442
\- Shaka Samvat| 1306–1307
\- Kali Yuga| 4485–4486
Holocene calendar| 11385
Igbo calendar| 385–386
Iranian calendar| 763–764
Islamic calendar| 786–787
Japanese calendar| Shitoku 2
(至徳２年)
Javanese calendar| 1298–1299
Julian calendar| 1385
MCCCLXXXV
Korean calendar| 3718
Minguo calendar| 527 before ROC
民前527年
Nanakshahi calendar| −83
Thai solar calendar| 1927–1928
Tibetan calendar| 阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1511 or 1130 or 358
— to —
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
1512 or 1131 or 359

Year 1385 (MCCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

## Events

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### January-December

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* July 17 - Charles VI of France marries Isabeau of Bavaria; the wedding is celebrated with France's first court ball.
* August 6 - Edmund of Langley is elevated to become the first Duke of York in England.
* August 14
* Battle of Aljubarrota: John of Aviz defeats John I of Castile in the decisive battle of the 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal. John of Aviz is crowned King John I of Portugal, ending Queen Beatrice's rule, and Portugal's independence from the Kingdom of Castile is secured.
* The Union of Krewo establishes the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania, through the proposed marriage of Queen regnant Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania, and sees the acceptance of Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite, and an end to the Greater Poland Civil War.
* August 31 - King Richard II of England begins an invasion of Scotland.[1] The English burn Holyrood and Edinburgh, but return home without a decisive battle.[2]
* September 18 - Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha, near Berat.
* October 15 - Battle of Valverde: The armies of Portugal defeat Castile.
* December - A group of Hungarian nobles helps Charles III of Naples to overthrow Queen Mary, as ruler of Hungary and Croatia.

### Date unknown

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* Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde conquers parts of the Jalayirid Sultanate in western Persia, causing a rift between himself and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia.
* Olav IV of Norway is elected as titular King of Sweden, in opposition to the unpopular King Albert.
* The Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming dynasty relents after eighteen tribute missions over the previous eight years, and agrees to invest King U of Goryeo.
* Construction of:
* Castello Estense in Ferrara (modern-day Italy)
* Bodiam Castle (East Sussex, England)

## Births

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* June 23 - Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (d. 1459)
* August 1 - John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel, English noble (d. 1421)
* August 15 - Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1417)
* date unknown
* Jean I, Duke of Alençon (d. 1415)
* Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (approximate date; d. 1441)
* Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence, English noble (d. 1429)
* Mircea I of Wallachia (d. 1418)

## Deaths

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* June 28 - Andronikos IV Palaiologos, co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire
* August 7 - Joan of Kent, Dowager Princess of Wales, widow of Edward, the Black Prince (b. 1328)
* September 18 - Balša II, ruler of Zeta
* October 15 - Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
* December 19 - Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. 1319)
* date unknown
* Aluycia Gradenigo, Venetian patrician and dogaressa
* Xu Da, Chinese military leader (b. 1332)

## References

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1. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
2. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 109–113. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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