1380 Totally Explained

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Year 1380 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

September 8 - Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow resist a large invasion by the Blue Horde, Lithuania and Ryazan, stopping their advance at Kulikovo.
September 16 - Charles V of France dies and is succeeded by his twelve year old son, Charles VI.
Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde dethrones Khan Mamai of the Blue Horde. The two hordes unite to form the Golden Horde.
Haakon VI of Norway dies and is succeeded by his son Olaf II of Denmark as Olaf IV of Norway.
Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as a parts of Norway, pass under the Danish crown.
John Wycliffe and Nicholas of Hereford complete the first English translation of the Bible.
The Hongwu Emperor purges the chancellor of China, Hu Weiyong, and abolishes that office as he imposes direct imperial rule over the six ministries of central government for the Ming Empire.

Births

February 11 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (d. 1459)

September 8 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)

Jan Zelivsky - Hussite priest (d. 1422)

Johannes Abezier, bishop (d. 1424)

Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1429)

Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (d. 1471)

John de Sutton V, English nobleman (d. 1406)

Deaths

April 29 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)

July 13 - Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France (b. c. 1320)

July 26 - Komyo, former Emperor of Japan (b. 1322)

September 16 - King Charles V of France (b. 1338)

Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1340)

Nissim of Gerona, rabbi (b. 1320)

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