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'Years:' 1377 1378 1379 - 1380 - 1381 1382 1383

'Decades:' 1350s 1360s 1370s - '1380s' - 1390s 1400s 1410s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

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

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Births

Deaths

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.

★ Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde dethrones Khan Mamai of the Blue Horde. The two hordes unite to form the Golden Horde.

★ September 16 - Charles V of France dies and is succeeded by his twelve year old son, Charles VI.

★ Haakon VI of Norway dies and is succeeded by his son Olaf III 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 heretical English translation of the Bible.

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

★ July 26 - Komyo, former Emperor of Japan (born 1322)

★ September 16 - King Charles V of France (born 1338)

★ Dafydd ap Gwilym, Welsh poet

★ Haakon VI of Norway (born 1340)

★ Nissim of Gerona, rabbi (born 1320)