January–March •
January 1 –
Charles III ascends to the throne of
Navarre, after the death of his father,
Charles II. •
January 5 –
John I succeeds his father,
Peter IV, as King of
Aragon and
Valencia, and forms an alliance with France and Castile. •
January 16 –
Elizabeta Kotromanic, the regent of
Hungary for her daughter,
Queen Mary, is murdered in prison by Croatian rebels. •
March 11 –
Battle of Castagnaro:
Padua, led by
John Hawkwood, is victorious over
Giovanni Ordelaffi of
Verona. •
March 25– The
Battle of Margate, a naval battle off the coast of England at
Margate, ends with the England navy, commanded by the Earl of Arundel, victorious over a combined fleet of shipsf rom the
Kingdom of France, the
Crown of Castile and the
County of Flanders.
April–June •
April 12– Admiral Arundel of the English Navy brings 68 captured ships from Margate battle to the port of
Orwell. •
May 28– Anticipating a war with Burma, China's Emperor orders the troops at his forts on the Burmese border to increase the height of their walls and to begin making gunpowder to increase their supply. •
June 2 –
John Holland, a maternal half-brother of
Richard II of England, is created
Earl of Huntingdon. •
June 4 – Queen Mary of Hungary is rescued from imprisonment after being held captive by Croatian rebels.
July–September •
July 7 – A Mongol Army unit, led by Naghachu, ambushes and massacres a Chinese Army division led by Chen Yong (陳鏞), Marquis of Linjiang, who is killed in the attack. •
July 14 – The Chinese Army commander,
General Feng Sheng, leads troops across the
Liao River defeats Naghachu's Mongol troops and takes Naghachu as a prisoner of war. •
September 27 –
Petru of Moldavia pays homage to
Władysław II Jagiełło, making Moldavia a Polish fief (which it will remain until
1497).
October–December •
October 19 – The
Scaliger rule over the independent Lordship of Verona comes to an end after 125 years when the dictator
Antonio I della Scala is forced by the nobles of the
Lordship of Milan, led by
Gian Galeazzo Visconti, to flee the city. •
November 17 – The three rebel Lords Appellant—
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester,
Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and
Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick arrive at King Richard's palace at Westminster after traveling with 300 men on horseback to confront the King, and effectively take control of the government of England. The Lords demand that advisers Neville, Pole, De Vere, Tresilian and Brembre be held in custody until a trial can take place, and the King agrees after they threaten to take the government by force. •
November 19 – By order of the Lords Appellant, Sir
Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice of the King's Bench of England, is arrested along with other nobles loyal to King Richard II, and charged with treason for malfeasance in office, with trial to take place four months later at Parliament in February. •
November – The
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of China directs General Lan Yu to attack the Mongol forces led by
Tögüs Temür, whom the Emperor Zhu had deposed. The confrontation between Lan Yu and Tögüs Temür will culminate six months later at the Battle of Buir Lake, north of
Beijing. •
December 19 – At the
Battle of Radcot Bridge in England, forces loyal to
King Richard II are defeated by the
Lords Appellant, a group of three rebellious barons—. King Richard is taken prisoner, and not freed until he agrees to dismiss all the councillors in his court. Richard continues as the nominal King of England, with the Lords Appellant administering the kingdom.
Date unknown •
Timur conquers the
Muzaffarid Empire in central
Persia, and appoints three puppet rulers. • Khan
Tokhtamysh of the
Golden Horde invades the
Timurid Empire, but has to withdraw soon after, due to heavy snow. •
Maghan II succeeds his brother,
Musa II, as
Mansa of the
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