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On the fall of the Yuan dynasty, replaced by the Ming, Tibet declares its independence from China
The marriage of the duke of Burgundy to the heiress of Flanders lays the foundation for the great territorial expansion of Burgundy
The Persian poet Hafiz perfects a form of short poem, the ghazal, dwelling on the pleasures of life with an undercurrent of Sufi mysticism
On the death of his uncle, David II, Robert Stewart becomes king of Scotland as Robert II
Kanami and Zeami Motokiyo please the shogun with their theatrical performance, and his patronage begins the tradition of Japan's No theatre
The courtly poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur
John Wycliffe, writing mainly in Oxford, is critical of the contemporary church and can find no basis for the pope's authority
10-year-old Richard II follows his grandfather, Edward III, on the English throne
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
Jogaila inherits a pagan Lithuanian kingdom which has been extended as far south as Kiev
The Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun writes in his Muqaddimah that species tend to become more numerous and that humans must have developed from the world of the monkeys
John Hawkwood, a condottiere in command of the White Company, is appointed captain general of Florence
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
Koreans establish the first type foundry, casting movable type in bronze
With the development of clocks, the hour becomes a fixed period of time - one twenty-fourth part of the day
Dimitri, grand prince of Moscow, leads other Russian princes in a crushing victory over the Mongols on the Kulikovo plain
The Venetian blockade of Chioggia costs Genoa her fleet and ends Genoese rivalry with Venice in the eastern Mediterranean
A poll tax imposed in England provokes widespread unrest, which flares up in the Peasants' Revolt
Wat Tyler, leader of the Kentish rebels, meets Richard II at Smithfield - before being struck and wounded by the Lord Mayor of London
Timur begins twenty years of almost continuous conquest with the capture and destruction of Herat
Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the signore of Milan, sets about enlarging his territory - seizing Vicenza, Verona and Padua between 1384 and 1388
The victory at Aljubarrota, securing the Portuguese throne for John I, is commemorated in the Dominican abbey called Batalha
Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy
John I, newly victorious in Portugal, proposes an alliance with England which has never been revoked
A clock, designed only to strike the hours, is installed in Salisbury cathedral and is still working today
