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| 1377 |
| | | The papal curia returns to Rome in what would seem a conclusive move if there were not, two years later, two popes - one of them elected back in Avignon | |
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| 1377 |
| | | Jogaila inherits a pagan Lithuanian kingdom which has been extended as far south as Kiev | |
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| 1378 |
| | | John Hawkwood, a condottiere in command of the White Company, is appointed captain general of Florence | |
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| 1379 |
| | | The French cardinals, objecting to the new Italian pope, elect their own man as Clement VII - and thus inaugurate the Great Schism of the papacy | |
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| c. 1380 |
| | | Koreans establish the first type foundry, casting movable type in bronze | |
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| c. 1380 |
| | | With the development of clocks, the hour becomes a fixed period of time - one twenty-fourth part of the day | |
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| 1380 |
| | | Dimitri, grand prince of Moscow, leads other Russian princes in a crushing victory over the Mongols on the Kulikovo plain | |
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| 1380 |
| | | The Venetian blockade of Chioggia costs Genoa her fleet and ends Genoese rivalry with Venice in the eastern Mediterranean | |
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| 1381 |
| | | A poll tax imposed in England provokes widespread unrest, which flares up in the Peasants' Revolt | |
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| 1381 |
| | | Wat Tyler, leader of the Kentish rebels, meets Richard II at Smithfield - before being struck and wounded by the Lord Mayor of London | |
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| 1383 |
| | | Timur begins twenty years of almost continuous conquest with the capture and destruction of Herat | |
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| 1384 |
| | | Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the signore of Milan, sets about enlarging his territory - seizing Vicenza, Verona and Padua between 1384 and 1388 | |
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| 1385 |
| | | The victory at Aljubarrota, securing the Portuguese throne for John I, is commemorated in the Dominican abbey called Batalha | |
|  | The abbey of Batalha
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| 1385 |
| | | Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy | |
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| 1386 |
| | | John I, newly victorious in Portugal, proposes an alliance with England which has never been revoked | |
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| 1386 |
| | | A clock, designed only to strike the hours, is installed in Salisbury cathedral and is still working today | |
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| 1386 |
| | | Jadwiga, 12-year-old queen of Poland, marries Jogaila, her 34-year-old pagan neighbour - uniting the crowns of Poland and Lithuania | |
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| 1386 |
| | | Jogaila, baptized a Roman Catholic before marrying Jadwiga, brings Lithuania into the Christian fold - the last part of Europe to be converted | |
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| c. 1387 |
| | | Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death | |
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| 1389 |
| | | Victory at Kosovo gives the Ottoman Turks control over Serbia, which becomes a vassal state | |
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| 1389 |
| | | With a victory near Falköping, Margaret becomes regent of Sweden as well as Denmark and Norway | |
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| 1390 |
| | | On the death of his father, Robert II, Robert III becomes king of Scotland | |
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| c. 1390 |
| | | Fan vaulting becomes part of the Gothic tradition, seen to perfection in the cloisters of Gloucester cathedral | |
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| 1391 |
| | | Construction begins on a canal from Lübeck south to the Elbe, linking the Baltic and the North Sea | |
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| 1392 |
| | | Charles VI, king of France, suffers the first of many violent fits of madness | |
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| 1392 |
| | | Yi Song-gye founds the Yi dynasty, which rules in Korea until the twentieth century | |
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| 1393 |
| | | The Ottoman sultan Bayazid I brings the Slav kingdom of Bulgaria under his control | |
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| 1395 |
| | | Philip II of Burgundy commissions from Netherlands sculptor Claus Sluter a work, the Well of Moses, which launches the northern Renaissance | |
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| c. 1397 |
| | | The English king, Richard II, commissions a diptych (the Wilton Diptych) showing himself being presented to the Virgin and Child | |
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| c. 1397 |
| | | The keyboard of the organ is adapted in Germany to strings, thus providing the harpsichord - first mentioned in a manuscript of this year | |
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| 1397 |
| | | The Golden Pavilion in Kyoto is built by the shogun Yoshimitsu as his own villa | |
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