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

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January–December

  • May–September 3 – Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal.
  • 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.
  • December 25 – Use of the Spanish era dating system in the Crown of Castile is suppressed.

    • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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

    • References

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