January–December •
February 18 – The
Battle of Rudau is fought between
the Teutonic Knights and the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania near Rudau village, north of Königsberg (now Melnikovo village in the
Kaliningrad oblast). According to the Teutonic chronicler Wigand of Marburg and the Livonian chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, the Lithuanians suffer a great defeat. •
April 9 –
Timur becomes first
Amir of the
Timurid Empire, following the
Siege of Balkh which establishes his rule over the
Chagatai Khanate, completing his conquest of
Central Asia and parts of
Persia. •
May 24 – The
Treaty of Stralsund ends the war between
Denmark and the
Hanseatic League. •
September 19 –
Hundred Years' War:
Siege of Limoges – The
English led by
Edward the Black Prince retake the city from the
French by storm with wide destruction, effectively ending the
Limoges enamel industry. •
October 20 –
Philip of
Anjou,
Titular Emperor of Constantinople, marries as his second wife
Elizabeth of Slavonia (daughter of Stephen of Anjou and Margaret of Bavaria). •
November 5 –
Casimir III the Great, king of
Poland, dies as the result of a hunting accident, and is succeeded jointly by his sister,
Elizabeth of Kujavia, and her son,
Louis I of Hungary, beginning the rule of the country by the
Capet-Anjou family. •
November 15 –
Trần Nghệ Tông deposes
Dương Nhật Lễ as emperor of
Đại Việt, modern-day
Vietnam. •
December 4 – Hundred Years' War:
Battle of Pontvallain – A French army under
Bertrand du Guesclin heavily defeats an English force in surprise attacks in northwest France. •
December 20 –
Pope Gregory XI succeeds
Pope Urban V, as the 201st
pope.
Date unknown • For the second time since
1368, the
Grand Duchy of Moscow attacks
Tver, which again counter-attacks, with the aid of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the
Blue Horde. • Khun Luang Pa-Ngua, ruler of Suphanburi, marches and usurps the throne of the
Ayutthaya Kingdom. • The city of
Xi'an in
Ming dynasty China is given a new defensive city wall. •
Hugues Aubriot begins construction of the fortress of the
Bastille in
Paris. • The steel
crossbow is first used as a weapon of war. == Births ==