1385

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Calendar year

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

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Minguo calendar

527 before ROC 民前527年
Nanakshahi calendar	−83
Thai solar calendar	1927–1928
Tibetan calendar	阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1511 or 1130 or 358     — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1512 or 1131 or 359

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

• July 17 – Charles VI of France marries Isabeau of Bavaria; the wedding is celebrated with France's first court ball.
• Edmund of Langley is elevated to become the first Duke of York
  in England.
• August 14
  • 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal. John of Aviz is crowned King John I of Portugal, ending Queen Beatrice's rule, and Portugal's independence from the Kingdom of Castile
    is secured.
  • The
    Greater Poland Civil War
    .
• August 31 – King Richard II of England begins an invasion of Scotland.^[1] The English burn Holyrood and Edinburgh, but return home without a decisive battle.^[2]
• September 18 – Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha, near Berat.
• October 15 – Battle of Valverde: The armies of Portugal defeat Castile.
• December – A group of Hungarian nobles helps Charles III of Naples to overthrow Queen Mary, as ruler of Hungary and Croatia.

Date unknown

• Persia, causing a rift between himself and Timur
  of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia.
• King Albert
  .
• 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.
• Construction of:
  • Castello Estense in Ferrara (modern-day Italy)
  • Bodiam Castle (East Sussex, England)

Births

• June 23 – Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (d. 1459)
• John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel, English noble (d. 1421
  )
• August 15 – Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1417)
• date unknown
  • Jean I, Duke of Alençon (d. 1415
    )
  • Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (approximate date; d. 1441)
  • Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence, English noble (d. 1429)
  • Mircea I of Wallachia (d. 1418
    )

• Byzantine Empire
• Edward, the Black Prince (b. 1328
  )
• September 18 – Balša II, ruler of Zeta
• Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
• December 19 – Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. 1319)
• date unknown
  • Aluycia Gradenigo, Venetian patrician and dogaressa
  • Xu Da, Chinese military leader (b. 1332)

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