1380s

The 1380s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1380, and ended on December 31, 1389.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s
Years:	1380 1381 1382 1383 1384 1385 1386 1387 1388 1389
Categories:	Births Deaths By country By topic Establishments Disestablishments

Events

1380

January–December

• February – Olaf II of Denmark also becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margrete (Margaret) as regent. Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as parts of Norway, pass under the Danish crown.
• March 13 – The southern England town of Winchelsea in East Sussex is attacked and burned by an expeditionary force from France.[1]
• May 31 – Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila signs the secret Treaty of Dovydiškės, with the Teutonic Knights. This sparks a civil war with his uncle Kęstutis.
• June 21 – Battle of Chioggia: the Venetian fleet defeats the Genoese.
• July 27 – Henry Bolingbroke marries Mary de Bohun at Arundel Castle.
• September 8 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow resist a large invasion by the Blue Horde, Lithuania and Ryazan, stopping their advance.
• September 16 – Charles V of France is succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, Charles VI.
• October 2 – Caterina Visconti marries her first cousin, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, later Duke of Milan, at the Church of San Giovanni in Conca.
• November 3 – Charles VI of France, who succeeded his father (Charles V of France) in September, is crowned.

Date unknown

• Sir William Walworth, a member of the Fishmongers Guild, becomes Lord Mayor of London for the second time.
• Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde dethrones Khan Mamai of the Blue Horde. The two hordes unite to form the Golden Horde.
• Karim Al-Makhdum arrives in Jolo, and builds a mosque.
• The Hongwu Emperor purges the chancellor of China, Hu Weiyong, and abolishes that office, as he imposes direct imperial rule over the six ministries of central government, for the Ming Empire.
• The last islands of Polynesia are discovered and inhabited.
• The Companhia das Naus is founded by King Ferdinand I of Portugal.
• The imposter Paul Palaiologos Tagaris, having been appointed Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by Pope Urban VI, takes up residence in his see at Chalcis.

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Significant people

Births

• 1380
  • February 11 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (d. 1459)
  • September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
  • Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1429)
  • Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (d. 1471)
• 1381
  • May 9 – Johann Schiltberger, German traveller and writer (d. 1440)
  • October 13 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1415)
  • John I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1434)
  • Saint Rita of Cascia (d. 1457)
• 1382
  • Frederick IV, Duke of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (d. 1439)
  • Dawit I of Ethiopia (d. 1413)
  • Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (d. 1459)
  • Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (d. 1439)
• 1383
  • Amadeus VIII of Savoy (d. 1451)
  • Pope Eugene IV (d. 1447)
  • Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (d. 1438)
• 1384
  • Antoine, Duke of Brabant (d. 1415)
  • Saint Frances of Rome (d. 1440)
  • Khalil Sultan, Timurid ruler in Transoxiana (d. 1411)
• 1385
  • John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (d. 1421)
  • Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (approximate date; died 1441)
  • Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence, English noblewoman (d. 1429)
• 1386
  • Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1428)
  • Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)
  • Donatello, Italian artist (d. 1466)
  • Mircea I of Wallachia (d. 1418)
  • Niccolò Piccinino, Italian mercenary (d. 1444)
• 1387
  • King Henry V of England (d. 1422)
  • King Charles III of Navarre (d. 1425)
  • Isabella of Valois, Princess of France (d. 1410)
• 1388
  • Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
  • Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
  • Juliana Berners, English writer
  • Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury (d. 1428)
• 1389
  • John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, son of Henry IV of England, regent of England (d. 1435)
  • Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
  • John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)
  • Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Polish cardinal and statesman (d. 1455)
  • Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop

Deaths

• 1380
  • Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (b. 1355)
  • Saint Catherine of Siena (b. 1347)
  • Emperor Kōmyō of Japan (b. 1322)
  • King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
  • Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France
  • Dafydd ap Gwilym, Welsh poet
  • Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1340)
  • Nissim of Gerona, rabbi (b. 1320)
• 1381
  • St Catherine of Sweden
  • Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • John Cavendish, English jurist
  • John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic (b. 1293)
  • Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (b. 1351)
  • Wat Tyler, English rebel
• 1382
  • Janusz Suchywilk, Polish nobleman
  • Joanna I of Naples (b. 1327)
  • Kęstutis, Grand Prince of Lithuania (b. 1297)
  • Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
  • Peter II of Cyprus, called The Fat
  • Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (b. 1340)
  • Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
  • Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (b. 1325)
• 1383
  • Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
  • Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (b. 1338)
  • John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine emperor (b. c. 1292)
  • King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
• 1384
  • Geert Groote, Dutch preacher and founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
  • John Wycliffe, English theologian and Bible translator (b. 1328)
  • Ruaidri mac Tairdelbach Ó Conchobair, King of Connacht
  • Joanna of Dreux, countess of Penthièvre and nominal Duchess of Brittany (b. 1319)
  • John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler
  • Kan'ami, Japanese Noh actor and playwright (b. 1333)
  • Liubartas, King of Galicia
  • Peter of Enghien, Count of Lecce
• 1385 – Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (b. 1328)
• 1386
  • Leopold III, Duke of Austria (b. 1351)
  • James Audley, English knight
• 1387
  • Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
  • Olaf IV of Norway/Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)
  • Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
  • Richard Óg Burke, second Clanricarde
  • Peter de la Mare, English politician
  • King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
• 1388
  • Simon de Burley, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  • James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
  • Thomas Usk, English author
• 1389
  • Murad I, emperor of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1319)
  • Prince Lazar of Serbia
  • Pope Urban VI (b. c. 1318)
  • Dmitry Donskoy, Russian tsar
  • Isabel Macduff, 9th Countess of Fife
  • Hayam Wuruk, Ruler of the Majapahit Empire on Java (b. 1334)

References

1. "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p27