1378 | Great Schism of the western church begins; revolt of the Ciompi in Florence: workers in the wool industry seize power for six weeks |
1379-83 | Revolts in Flanders against Count Louis de Male and the crown of France led by Philip van Artevelde |
1381 | John Wycliffe's writings condemned and he is expelled from Oxford |
1384 | Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, succeeds to the counties of Flanders and Artois |
1386 | Union of the kingdom of Poland and the duchy of Lithuania under Ladislas II Jagellon |
1387 | Thessalonica, second largest city of the Byzantine empire, falls to Ottomans |
1389 | Serbs defeated by Turks at Kossovo, though the sultan, Murad I, also killed there |
1392-4 | First onset of Charles VI of France's bouts of madness: rivalry for power within France between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy |
1396 | Truce made at Leulinghen between England and France suspends hostilities until 1403; massive western crusade ends in fiasco at Nicopolis; Manuel Chrysoloras hired to teach Greek at the University of Florence |
1397 | Norway, Sweden, and Denmark united by the Union of Kalmar |
1398 | Withdrawal of obedience by the French Church from the schismatic papacy |
1401 | Ghiberti wins competition for the second bronze Baptistery doors in Florence, the beginning of Renaissance sculpture |
1402 | Death of Giangaleazzo Visconti, duke of Milan, who had briefly united most of northern and much of central Italy under his personal rule |
1403 | German masters of Prague University condemn Wycliffe's writings, Czech masters oppose this decision |
1404 | Death of Philip the Bold of Burgundy; Burgundian influence at Paris increases under his son John the Fearless |
1407 | Assassination of Louis, duke of Orleans at Paris by the Burgundian faction |
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