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Events

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.

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.