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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[May]] &ndash; [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Siege of Lisbon (1384)|Siege of Lisbon]] by the [[Crown of Castile|Castilian]] army, during the [[1383–85 Crisis]] in [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rogers |first=Clifford J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzwpq6bLHhMC |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-533403-6 |pages=511–513 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; The [[Hongwu Emperor]] of [[Ming dynasty|Ming China]] hears a case of a couple who tore [[Banknote|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|caning with a bamboo rod]] of 100 strokes. However, the Emperor decides to pardon them, on the grounds that it was unintentional.
* [[November 16]] &ndash; 10-year-old [[Jadwiga of Poland|Jadwiga]] is crowned "King" of [[Poland]] in [[Kraków]] following the death of her father, King [[Louis I of Hungary|Louis]], in [[1382]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Frost |first=Robert I. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880557774 |title=The Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania |date=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-820869-3 |edition=1st |location=Oxford, UK |pages=17 |oclc=880557774}}</ref>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; Use of the [[Spanish era]] dating system in the [[Crown of Castile]] is suppressed.

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* The Hongwu Emperor of China reinstates the [[Imperial examination]] system for drafting [[scholar-official]]s to the civil service, after suspending the system since [[1373]], in favor of a recommendation system to office.
* The [[Nasrid dynasty|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 (Iran)|Muzaffarids]] in central [[Persia]].
* Shortly before his death, [[John Wycliffe]] sends out [[Tract (literature)|tract]]s 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 the northern territories of the [[Jalayirid]] Empire, in western [[Persia]].
* [[Katharine Lady Berkeley's School]] is founded in [[Gloucestershire]], England.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |title=Berkeley [née Clivedon], Katherine, Lady Berkeley (d. 1385), benefactor |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-54435 |access-date=2021-03-25 | year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/54435| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref></onlyinclude>