Year 1380 (MCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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January–December
- February – Olaf II of Denmark also becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margrete (Margaret) as regent. Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as parts of Norway, pass under the Danish crown.
- March 13 – The southern England town of Winchelsea in East Sussex is attacked and burned by an expeditionary force from France for a second time.
- May 31 – Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila signs the secret Treaty of DovydiÃ
¡kÃÂs, with the Teutonic Knights. This sparks a civil war with his uncle KÃÂstutis.
- June 21 – Battle of Chioggia: the Venetian fleet defeats the Genoese.
- September 8 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow resist a large invasion by the Blue Horde, Lithuania and Ryazan, stopping their advance.
- September 16 – Charles V of France is succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, Charles VI.
- October 2 – Caterina Visconti marries her first cousin, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, later Duke of Milan, at the Church of San Giovanni in Conca.
- November 3 – Charles VI of France, who succeeded his father (Charles V of France) in September, is crowned.
Date unknown
Births
- February 11 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (d. 1459)
- September 8 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
- November 27 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (d. 1416)
- date unknown
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Bistami, Ottoman Sufi (d. 1455)
- Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Tarentum (d. 1449)
- Nguyá»Â
n Trãi, Confucian scholar (d. 1442)
- Anne de Bourbon, French noble (d. 1408)
- Jan Ã
½elivský, Hussite priest (d. 1422)
- probable
- Huitzilihuitl II, 2nd Tlatoani (king) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1396âÂÂ1417, father of Moctezuma I (d. c. 1417)
- Jamshëd al-KÃÂshë, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1429)
- King Lukeni lua Nimi of the Kingdom of Kongo (d. 1420)
- Thomas ÃÂ Kempis, German monk and writer (d. 1471)
- Parameshvara, Indian mathematician (d. 1425)
Deaths
References