1380
Appearance
Years: 1377 1378 1379 - 1380 - 1381 1382 1383 | |
Decades: 1350s 1360s 1370s - 1380s - 1390s 1400s 1410s | |
Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
Events
- September 8 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitri Ivanovich of Moscow defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols (the Golden Horde), stopping their advance at Kulikovo.
- September 16 - Charles V of France dies and is succeeded by his son Charles VI.
- Haakon VI of Norway dies and is succeeded by his son Olaf III of Denmark as Olaf IV of Norway.
- Iceland, as a part of Norway passes under the Danish crown.
Births
- February 11 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (died 1459)
- September 8 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (died 1444)
- Jan Zelivsky - Hussite priest (died 1422)
- Johannes Abezier, bishop (died 1424)
- Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (died 1429)
- Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (died 1471)
- John de Sutton V, English nobleman (died 1406)
Deaths
- January 5 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (born 1355)
- April 29 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (born 1347)
- July 26 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (born 1322)
- September 16 - King Charles V of France (born 1338)
- Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France
- Dafydd ap Gwilym, Welsh poet
- Haakon VI of Norway (born 1340)
- Nissim of Gerona, rabbi (born 1320)