January–March •
January 8 –
Isabella of Valois, the 7-year-old wife of
King Richard II since their marriage on October 31, is formally crowned as Queen consort of England at
Westminster Abbey. •
January 22 – The 23rd Parliament of King Richard II of England assembles after having been summoned on November 30, and re-elects Sir
John Bussy as the Speaker of the House of Commons, then meets for three weeks. •
January – •
Tran Thuan Tong, the Vietnamese Emperor of
Dai Viet since
1388, moves the imperial capital from
Thang Long to
Thanh Hóa. •
Mircea I takes back the throne of
Wallachia. •
February 10 –
John Beaufort becomes Earl of
Somerset in England. •
February 12 – The English Parliament adjourns, and King Richard II gives
royal assent to several acts passed, including the Act against riding with weapons, and barring the carrying of a
lancegay (a light spear) except in wartime. Another law places a penalty on "him who taketh another's horse or best for the King's service without sufficient warrant. •
March 18 – The
Duchy of Milan, led by
Gian Galeazzo Visconti, declares war against the
Republic of Florence, led by Chancellor
Coluccio Salutati, on the Italian peninsula. •
March 28 – King Charles VI of France and King Richard II of England sign a treaty settling the final issues remaining from the
War of the Breton Succession, restoring the land confiscated from John IV, Duke of Brittany.
April–June •
April 20 – At
Kalaburagi in the
Bahmani Kingdom (now in India's state of
Karnataka)
Ghiyath-ad-din Shah becomes the new Shah upon the death of his father, Mohammed Shah II. •
May 17 –
Callistus II Xanthopoulos becomes the new Patriarch to lead the
Eastern Orthodox Church after the death of the previous Patriarch
Antony IV. •
June 14 –
Shams-ud-Din Shah becomes the new Shah of the
Bahmani Kingdom (now in India's state of
Karnataka) upon the death of his brother, Ghiyath-ad-din Shah. •
August 28 – As part of a division of the state of Holstein, the northernmost member of the
Holy Roman Empire, between
Count Albert II and his brother
Count Gerhard VI (following the death of their uncle, Nicholas, Gerhard receives the
Duchy of Schleswig and nearly all of Rendsburg, while Albert receives HOlstein-Segeberg. •
September 9 – While under house arrest at
Calais, awaiting trial for treason against his nephew, King Richard II of England,
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester is assassinated. •
September 29 •
John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created
Duke of Exeter, by his half-brother King
Richard II of England. •
Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's brother, is created
Duke of Surrey by King Richard. •
Ralph Neville, Baron Neville is created as the first Earl of Westmorland. •
October 13 –
Richard Whittington,
Lord Mayor of London since June 8 when he was chosen by King Richard II following the June 6 death of the Lord Mayor
Adam Bamme, is overwhelmingly approved by London's freemen to serve permanently after Whittington had negotiated a deal to settle its debt to the King for £10,000. •
October – • The
Lin Kuan rebellion by the
Kam people and
Miao people of China in the
Huguang province (now parts of the
Hubei and
Hunan provinces, against the Ming dynasty, ends after less than a year as Lin Kuan and his surviving followers are executed. Historical accounts indicate that more than 21,000 of the Kam civilians were killed during the suppression of the insurrection. •
Matthew I of Constantinople becomes the new Patriarch to lead the
Eastern Orthodox Church to replace the previous Patriarch,
Callistus II Xanthopoulos.
Date unknown • The
Ottomans capture the town of
Vidin, the capital of the
Tsardom of Vidin, the only remaining independent
Bulgarian state.
Emperor Ivan Sratsimir of
Vidin is taken prisoner by early this year and later disappears while his son
Constantine II becomes Emperor in his place. •
Temür Qutlugh is crowned as the Khan of
Golden Horde with the help of general
Edigu, although Edigu continues to hold the real power. • The Università, a form of local government, is established in
Malta. • The
Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery is founded in northwestern
Russia. • The
Sretensky Monastery is founded in
Moscow. • The first hospital in
al-Andalus is created, at
Granada. • Neuhausergasse 4, the brewer of
Spaten, is listed on the register of
Munich breweries. •
Gregory of Tatev writes the
Book of Questions, a ten-volume encyclopedic work, at the
Tatev Monastery, in Armenia. == Births ==