January–March •
January 11 – After learning that several of his cardinals had been debating whether to depose him on grounds that he is insane,
Pope Urban VI orders the arrest of all of the cardinals within his reach.
Giovanni da Amelia,
Gentile di Sangro,
Adam Eston,
Ludovico Donato,
Bartolomeo da Cogorno, and
Marino del Giudice are all arrested and imprisoned and tortured at the castle of Nocera. Except for Eston, the cardinals arrested are put to death in
Genoa by the end of 1386. •
February 3 – (2
Muharram 787 AH) The
madrasa (a religious school) of the Emir of
Artuqid Empire,
Majd al-Din Isa Al-Zahir, is dedicated and the date is placed on an inscription on the wall. The building is now a historic landmark in the city of
Mardin, now located in Turkey. •
February 14 –
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of the late King Edwward III of England and uncle of King Richard II, flees London after learning during a
joust that he has been targeted for assassination by the King's advisors
Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and
Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford; and
John de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury •
February –
Bugaya becomes the new
Sultan of Kano in what is now northern
Nigeria, upon the death of his brother
Yaji I. •
March 13 – Officials in the Kingdom of Scotland discover that 700 pounds sterling of
bullion has been taken from the cusstoms collectors of
Edinburgh by
John Stewart, the Earl of Carrick, who diverted the funds while acting as
Guardian of Scotland. •
March 22 – From the port of
Sluis (now in the Netherlands), the Kingdom of France dispatches a fleet of ships, carrying an army of 1,315 soldiers, 300 crossbowmen and 200 assistants, to aid the Kingdom of Scotland in defense of an invasion by the Kingdom of England. The fleet arrives at the Scottish port of
Leith, near Scotland's capital,
Edinburgh, on March 25.
April–June •
April 6 – At
Coimbra,
João, Master of Aviz, son of the late
King Pedro I of Portugal, is declared by the
Cortes of Coimbra to be the new King of Portugal. •
May 6 –
Gian Galeazzo Visconti leads a coup d'etat against his uncle,
Bernabò Visconti,
Lord of Milan and begins conquests to transform Milan into a
Duchy, with himself as the Duke of Milan. •
May 14 – The two-day
Battle of Sluys concludes on the
North Sea off of the coast of the Netherlands as England's Royal Navy, led by the
Admiral,
Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester attempts to blockade the Flemish port of
Sluis and more than 100 ships stationed there.
Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France, makes a successful counter-attack and the Royal Navy ships sail back to England to defend
London. •
May 29 – The
Battle of Trancoso is fought between the Kingdom of Portugal and the
Crown of Castile after a Castilian army pillages and burns the city of
Viseu. As the Castilians are marching back with their plundered loot and prisoners, they are met by the Portuguese Army, which kills more than 400 soldiers along with six of the seven Castilian officers, then recovers the stolen treasure and releases all of the Portuguese citizens taken prisoner. •
June 10 –
English invasion of Scotland (1385): Preparing to lead invade
Scotland as soon as the truce between England and Scotland expires on July 15, King
Richard II of England assembles an army at
Nottingham.
July–September •
July 8 –
English invasion of Scotland (1385): King
Robert II of Scotland sends two armies of Scottish soldiers and French mercenaries south from Edinburgh and raids the English county of
Northumberland. •
July 17 –
Charles VI of France marries
Isabeau of Bavaria; the wedding is celebrated with France's first court ball. •
July 21 –
King Juan of Castile asserts in his will that he is the King of Portugal by virtue of his marriage in 1383 to
Queen Beatriz of Portugal •
August 6 – •
English invasion of Scotland (1385): After setting off from
Berwick-upon-Tweed, the English Army invades Scotland. The English soldiers quickly run out of food, since to supply lines have been created and the residents of the border towns in Scotland have fled, taking their food with them.| •
August 14 •
Battle of Aljubarrota: John of Aviz defeats
John I of Castile in the decisive battle of the
1383–85 Crisis in Portugal. John of Aviz is crowned King
John I of Portugal, ending
Queen Beatrice's rule, and Portugal's independence from the
Kingdom of Castile is secured. • The
Union of Krewo establishes the
Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and
Lithuania, through the proposed marriage of Queen regnant
Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Duke
Jogaila of Lithuania, and sees the acceptance of
Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite, and an end to the
Greater Poland Civil War. •
August 15 –
English invasion of Scotland (1385): With England's Army having left its borders undefended, Scottish and French troops invade England and plunder
Cumberland in retaliation for the burning of Edinburgh. •
August 23 – In celebration of the marriage of
Wilhelm the Courteous,
Duke of Austria, to
Jadwiga,
Queen of Poland, the leaders of the city of
Krakow grant amenesty to the prisoners in the city jail. •
August 31 – King
Richard II of England begins
an invasion of Scotland. The English burn
Holyrood and
Edinburgh, but return home without a decisive battle. •
September 7 – Scottish and French troops unsuccesfully try to besiege the walled city of
Carlisle in England, •
September 18 –
Battle of Savra:
Serbian forces under
Balša II and
Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by
Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha, near
Berat.
October–December •
October 15 –
Battle of Valverde: The armies of
Portugal defeat
Castile. •
November 1 –
Sigismund of Luxembourg,
Margrave of Brandenburg and son of the late
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, enforces a 1373 agreement of betrothal and marries
Mary, Queen of Hungary, citing an agreement that had been made by King
Louis I of Hungary. •
December 31 –
King Carlo III, ruler of the
Kingdom of Naples, is crowned as
King Károly II of Hungary by the
Archbishop Demeter of
Esztergom at
Székesfehérvár after a group of Hungarian nobles helps him overthrow
Queen Maria.
Date unknown •
Tokhtamysh of the
Golden Horde conquers parts of the
Jalayirid Sultanate in western
Persia, causing a rift between himself and
Timur of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia. •
Olav IV of Norway is elected as titular King of
Sweden, in opposition to the unpopular
King Albert. • The
Hongwu Emperor of China's
Ming dynasty relents after eighteen tribute missions over the previous eight years, and agrees to invest King
U of Goryeo. • Construction is completed on •
Castello Estense in
Ferrara (now in Italy) •
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