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1384

Year 1384 (MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

• May – September 3 – Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1383–85 CrisisinPortugal.^[1]
• August 16 – The Hongwu EmperorofMing 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 PolandinKraków following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.^[2]
• December 25 – Use of the Spanish era dating system in the Crown of Castile is suppressed.

• 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.^[3]

• January 6 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (d. 1408)
• August – Antoine, Duke of Brabant (d. 1415)
• August 11 – Yolande of Aragon (d. 1442)
• date unknown
  • StFrances of Rome (d. 1440)
  • Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana (d. 1411)
  • Sigismondo Polcastro, Italian physician and natural philosopher (d. 1473)

• January 30 – Louis II, Count of Flanders (b. 1330)
• May – William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Scottish magnate (b.c. 1327)
• June 8 – Kan'ami, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1333)
• August 6 – Francesco I of Lesbos
• August 20 – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
• September 10 – Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and nominal Duchess of Brittany (b. 1319)
• September 20 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (b. 1339)
• October – Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1350)
• December 23 – Thomas Preljubović, ruler of Epirus
• December 31 – John Wycliffe, English theologian, Bible translator and Catholic reform campaigner
• date unknown
  • John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler
  • Peter of Enghien, Count of Lecce
  • Ruaidri mac Tairdelbach Ó Conchobair, King of Connacht
• probable – Liubartas, King of Galicia
• Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili al-Jizzini known as al-Shahid al-Awwal. Author of Al-Lum'a al-Dimashqiyya (book) (b. ca 1334)