1384

1384 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1384
MCCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita2137
Armenian calendar833
ԹՎ ՊԼԳ
Assyrian calendar6134
Balinese saka calendar1305–1306
Bengali calendar790–791
Berber calendar2334
English Regnal yearRic. 2 – 8 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar1928
Burmese calendar746
Byzantine calendar6892–6893
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4081 or 3874
    — to —
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4082 or 3875
Coptic calendar1100–1101
Discordian calendar2550
Ethiopian calendar1376–1377
Hebrew calendar5144–5145
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1440–1441
 - Shaka Samvat1305–1306
 - Kali Yuga4484–4485
Holocene calendar11384
Igbo calendar384–385
Iranian calendar762–763
Islamic calendar785–786
Japanese calendarEitoku 4 / Shitoku 1
(至徳元年)
Javanese calendar1297–1298
Julian calendar1384
MCCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar3717
Minguo calendar528 before ROC
民前528年
Nanakshahi calendar−84
Thai solar calendar1926–1927
Tibetan calendarཆུ་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

January–December

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 31John 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

  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, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)