1385

This article is about the year 1385.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1350s  1360s  1370s  – 1380s –  1390s  1400s  1410s
Years:	1382 1383 1384 – 1385 – 1386 1387 1388

1385 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1385 in poetry

1385 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1385 MCCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2138
Armenian calendar	834 ԹՎ ՊԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6135
Bahá'í calendar	-459–-458
Bengali calendar	792
Berber calendar	2335
English Regnal year	8 Ric. 2 – 9 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1929
Burmese calendar	747
Byzantine calendar	6893–6894
Chinese calendar	甲子年十一月二十日 (4021/4081-11-20) — to — 乙丑年十一月廿九日 (4022/4082-11-29)
Coptic calendar	1101–1102
Ethiopian calendar	1377–1378
Hebrew calendar	5145–5146
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1441–1442
- Shaka Samvat	1307–1308
- Kali Yuga	4486–4487
Holocene calendar	11385
Iranian calendar	763–764
Islamic calendar	786–787
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3718
Minguo calendar	527 before ROC 民前527年
Thai solar calendar	1928

Year 1385 (MCCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• July 17 – Charles VI of France marries Isabeau of Bavaria
• August 14
  • Battle of Aljubarrota: John of Aviz defeats John I of Castile in the decisive battle of the 1383-1385 Crisis. John of Aviz is crowned King John I of Portugal, ending Queen Beatrice's rule, and Portugal's independence from Castile is secured.
  • The Union of Krewo establishes the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania through the proposed marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Duke Jagiello of Lithuania, and sees the acceptance of Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite.
• September 18 – Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha near Berat.
• October 15 – The Battle of Valverde is fought between the armies of Portugal and Castile.

Date unknown

• The marriage of Charles VI of France and Isabella of Bavaria-Straubing is celebrated with France's first court ball.
• A group of Hungarian nobels help Charles III of Naples to overthrow Queen Mary as ruler of Hungary and Croatia.
• Scotland resists a small invasion force from England led by Richard II.
• Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde conquers parts the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia, causing a rift between himself and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia.
• Olav IV of Norway is elected as King of Sweden, in opposition to the unpopular King Albert.
• Construction of:
  • Castello Estense in Ferrara (present-day Italy)
  • Bodiam Castle (East Sussex, England)
• The Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty relents after eighteen tribute missions over the previous eight years and agrees to invest King U of Goryeo.

Births

• January 8 – Ahmed Al Nasir (d. 1493)
• May 29 – John VI of Cornwall (d. 1501)
• June 23 – Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (d. 1459)
• date unknown
  • Edmund de Langley, 1st duke of York (d. 1402)
  • Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (approximate date; d. 1441)
  • John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (d. 1421)
  • John I of Alençon (d. 1415)
  • Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Somerset (d. 1429)
  • August 15 Patrick I of England (d. 1470

Deaths

• June 28 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire
• August 7 – Joan of Kent, Dowager Princess of Wales, widow of Edward, the Black Prince (b. 1328)
• September 18 – Balša II, ruler of Zeta
• October 15 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
• December 19 – Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. 1319)
• December 28 – Xu Da, Chinese military leader (b. 1332)