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{{C14 year in topic}}Year 1384 (MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= January–December =

  • May – September 3 – Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal.{{Cite book |last=Rogers |first=Clifford J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzwpq6bLHhMC |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-533403-6 |pages=511–513 |language=en}}
  • August 16 – The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore paper money notes, while fighting over them. Under the law, this is considered to be destroying stamped government documents, which is to be punished by a caning with a bamboo rod of 100 strokes. However, the Emperor decides to pardon them, on the grounds that it was unintentional.
  • November 16 – 10-year-old Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland in Kraków following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.{{Cite book |last=Frost |first=Robert I. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880557774 |title=The Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania |date=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-820869-3 |edition=1st |location=Oxford, UK |pages=17 |oclc=880557774}}
  • December 25 – Use of the Spanish era dating system in the Crown of Castile is suppressed.

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  • The Hongwu Emperor of China reinstates the Imperial examination system for drafting scholar-officials to the civil service, after suspending the system since 1373, in favor of a recommendation system to office.
  • The Nasrid princes of Al-Andalus replace Abu al-Abbas with Abu Faris Musa ibn Faris, as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-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 has not turned out to be the reformist Wycliffe had hoped.
  • Qara Muhammad succeeds Bairam Khawaja, as ruler of the Kara Koyunlu ("Black Sheep Turkomans"), in modern-day Armenia and northern Iraq.
  • Timur conquers the northern territories of the Jalayirid Empire, in western Persia.
  • Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is founded in Gloucestershire, England.{{Cite ODNB |title=Berkeley [née Clivedon], Katherine, Lady Berkeley (d. 1385), benefactor |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-54435 |access-date=2021-03-25 | year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/54435| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}

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