1383
Calendar year
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Year 1383 (MCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
JanuaryâDecember
- May 17 â King John I of Castile and Leon marries Beatrice of Portugal.
- July 7 â James of Baux, ruler of Taranto and Achaea, and last titular Latin Emperor, dies childless.[1] As a result:
- Charles III of Naples becomes ruler of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece).
- Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, the widower of Joanna I of Naples, becomes ruler of Taranto (eastern Italy).
- Louis I, Duke of Anjou inherits the claim to the Latin Empire (western Turkey), but never uses the title of Emperor.
- October 22 â King Fernando I of Portugal dies, and is succeeded by his daughter, Beatrice of Portugal. A period of civil war and anarchy, known as the 1383â85 Crisis, begins in Portugal, due to Beatrice being married to King John I of Castile and Leon.
Date unknown
- The Teutonic Knights recommence war against pagan Lithuania.
- Dan I succeeds his father Radu as Prince of Wallachia. He is the ancestor of the House of DÄneÅti.
- Rao Chanda succeeds Rao Biram Dev as Rathore ruler of Marwar (in modern-day western India).
- Löwenbräu beer is first brewed.
- Completion of the original inner courtyard of Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somersetshire, England.
- The Wat Phra That Doi Suthep Temple is built in modern-day Thailand, by King Kuena of Lanna.
- Construction of the Bastille fortress is completed in Paris, France.
Births
- April 30 â Anne of Gloucester, English countess, granddaughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1438)
- September 4
- Antipope Felix V (d. 1451)
- Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (d. 1451)
- November 9 â Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1441)
- date unknown â Pope Eugene IV (d. 1447)[2]
Deaths
- March 1 â Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
- March 3 â Hugh III of Arborea
- June 5 â Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
- June 8 â Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
- June 15 â John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)
- July 7 James of Baux, titular Latin Emperor
- October 22 â King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
- December 7 â Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337)
- December 23 â Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia (b. 1320)
- date unknown â Radu I, Prince of Wallachia