1384
Year 1384 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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, 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.
Births
- August - Antoine, Duke of Brabant
- August 11 - Yolande of Aragon date unknown
- * St Frances of Rome
- * Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana
- * Sigismondo Polcastro, Italian physician and natural philosopher
Deaths
- January 30 - Louis II, Count of Flanders
- May - William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish magnate
- June 8 - Kan'ami, Japanese actor and playwright
- August 6 - Francesco I of Lesbos
- August 20 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life
- September 10 - Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and nominal Duchess of Brittany
- September 20 - Louis I, Duke of Anjou
- October - Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany
- December 23 - Thomas Preljubović, ruler of Epirus
- December 31 - John Wycliffe, English theologian, Bible translator and Catholic reform campaignerdate unknown
- * John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler
- * Peter of Enghien, Count of Lecce
- * Ruaidri mac Tairdelbach Ó Conchobair, King of Connachtprobable - 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''