Year was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
- Sigismund , the future Holy Roman Emperor and husband of Queen Mary Of Hungary , orders the murder of his mother-in-law, Elizabeta Kotromanic , and declares himself joint ruler of Hungary .
- Timur conquers the Muzaffarid Empire in central Persia and appoints three puppet rulers.
- Khan Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde invades the Timurid Empire but has to soon after withdraw due to heavy snow.
- August 23 - Death of Olaf , King of Norway and Denmark and claimant to the throne of Sweden . The vacant thrones come under the Regency of his mother Margaret I Of Denmark who would soon become Queen in her own right.
- defeated by a group of rebellious barons known as the Lords Appellant . Richard II is imprisoned until he agrees replace all the councillors in his court.
- Geoffrey Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales .
- Battle Of Castagnaro between the Italian cities of Verona and Padua . Padua, led by John Hawkwood , is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi led Verona.
- Charles III ascends to the throne of Navarre after the death of his father, Charles II .
- John I succeeds his father, Peter IV , as King of Aragon and Valencia , and forms an alliance with France and Castille.
- Magha II succeeds his brother, Musa II , as Mansa of the Mali Empire .
- June 2 - John Holland , a maternal half-brother of Richard II Of England , is created Earl Of Huntingdon .
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