1384

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1350s  1360s  1370s  – 1380s –  1390s  1400s  1410s
Years:	1381 1382 1383 – 1384 – 1385 1386 1387

1384 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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

Events

• May / September 3 – Lisbon is besieged by the Castilian army, during the 1383-1385 Crisis.
• August 16 – The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitates 100 floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decides to pardon them, on the grounds that it was not intentional.
• November 16 – Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.

1384 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1384 MCCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2137
Armenian calendar	833 ԹՎ ՊԼԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-460 – -459
Bengali calendar	791
Berber calendar	2334
Buddhist calendar	1928
Burmese calendar	746
Byzantine calendar	6892 – 6893
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十二月初八日 (4020/4080-12-8) — to — 甲子年十一月十九日 (4021/4081-11-19)
Coptic calendar	1100 – 1101
Ethiopian calendar	1376 – 1377
Hebrew calendar	5144 – 5145
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1440 – 1441
- Shaka Samvat	1306 – 1307
- Kali Yuga	4485 – 4486
Holocene calendar	11384
Iranian calendar	762 – 763
Islamic calendar	785 – 786
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3717
Thai solar calendar	1927

• The Hongwu Emperor of China reinstates the civil service examination system for drafting officials after suspending the examination system since 1373 in favor of a recommendation system to office.
• The Nasrid princes of Granada replace Abu al-Abbas with Abu Faris Musa ibn Faris as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present 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 had not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.
• Qara Muhammad succeeds Bairam Khawaja as ruler of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present day Armenia and northern Iraq.
• Timur conquers northern territories of the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia.
• Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is founded in Gloucestershire, England.

Births

• January 6 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (d. 1408)
• 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)

Deaths

• January 30 – Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
• June 8 – Kanami, 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 – Titular King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)
• December 23 – Thomas II 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 Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht
• probable – Liubartas, King of Galicia