1380

This article is about the year 1380.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1350s  1360s  1370s  – 1380s –  1390s  1400s  1410s
Years:	1377 1378 1379 – 1380 – 1381 1382 1383

1380 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1380 in poetry

1380 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1380 MCCCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2133
Armenian calendar	829 ԹՎ ՊԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6130
Bahá'í calendar	-464–-463
Bengali calendar	787
Berber calendar	2330
English Regnal year	3 Ric. 2 – 4 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1924
Burmese calendar	742
Byzantine calendar	6888–6889
Chinese calendar	己未年十一月廿三日 (4016/4076-11-23) — to — 庚申年十二月初五日 (4017/4077-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1096–1097
Ethiopian calendar	1372–1373
Hebrew calendar	5140–5141
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1436–1437
- Shaka Samvat	1302–1303
- Kali Yuga	4481–4482
Holocene calendar	11380
Iranian calendar	758–759
Islamic calendar	781–782
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3713
Minguo calendar	532 before ROC 民前532年
Thai solar calendar	1923

The earliest surviving map of Venice, from a 1380 codex.

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

Events

January–December

• February – Olaf II of Denmark becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margaret as regent. Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as parts of Norway, pass under the Danish crown.
• May 31 – Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila signs the secret Treaty of Dovydiškės with the Teutonic Knights. This sparks a civil war with his uncle Kęstutis.
• June 21 – Battle of Chioggia: the Venetian fleet defeats Genoeses.
• July 27 – Henry Bolingbroke marries Mary de Bohun at Arundel Castle.
• 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 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.
• 3 November - Charles VI of France, who succeded his father, Charles V of France, in September is crowned.

Date unknown

• Sir William Walworth, a member of the Fishmongers Guild, becomes Lord Mayor of London for the second time.
• Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde dethrones Khan Mamai of the Blue Horde. The two hordes unite to form the Golden Horde.
• Karim Al-Makhdum arrives in Jolo and builds a Mosque.
• 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.
• The last islands of Polynesia are discovered and inhabited.
• The Companhia das Naus is founded by King Ferdinand I of Portugal.

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
  • Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Tarentum (d. 1449)
  • Nguyễn Trãi, Confucian scholar (d. 1442)
  • Jan Želivský, Hussite priest (d. 1422)
• probable
  • Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1429)
  • Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (d. 1471)

Deaths

• April 29 – Saint Catherine of Siena, Italian theologian (b. 1347)
• May 5 – Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr
• July 13 – Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France (b. c. 1320)
• July 26 – Komyo, former Emperor of Japan (b. 1322)
• September 11 – Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1340)
• September 16 – King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
• December 29 – Elizabeth of Poland, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1305)
• date unknown
  • Nissim of Gerona, rabbi (b. 1320)
  • Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh al-Khalīlī, Syrian astronomer (b. 1320)