1380
Year 1380 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February - Olaf II of Denmark also becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margrete 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 for a second time.
- 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.
- 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 in September, is crowned.
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- 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 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.