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

Events

• May / September 3 - Lisbon is besieged by the Castilian army, during the 1383-1385 Crisis.
• August 16 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitates 100 floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decides to pardon them, on the grounds that it was not intentional.
• November 16 - Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.

• The Hongwu Emperor of China reinstates the civil service examination system for drafting officials after suspending the examination system since 1373 in favor of a recommendation system to office.
• The Nasrid princes of Granada replace Abu al-Abbas with Abu Faris Musa ibn Faris as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present 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 had not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.
• Qara Muhammad succeeds Bairam Khawaja as ruler of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep Empire in present 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)

Deaths

• January 30 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
• June 8 - Kanami, 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 - Titular King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)
• December 23 - Thomas II 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 Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht
• probable - Liubartas, King of Galicia

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