Map of Oceania
In the year 1380, Olaf II of Denmark also becomes Olaf IV of Norway at the age of five (Feb), the Venetian fleet defeats the Genoese in the Battle of Chioggia (Jun 21), Geoffrey Caucer begins to write his greatest work, The Canterbury Tales, the last islands of Polynesia are discovered and inhabited - and all these fine peope were born:
1380-xxxx Johann Schiltberger* German traveller/writer - Hollern near Munich (1440/c.60)
1380-0211 Poggio Bracciolini* scholar/humanist - Terranuova, Republic of Florence (1459/79)
1380-1127 Ferdinand I of Aragon* - Medina del Campo, (1416/35)
1381-1013 Thomas Fitzalan* Earl of Surrey/one of the principals of the deposition of Richard II - England (1415/34)
1382-0123 Richard Beauchamp* nobleman/military commander - Salwarpe Court, Worcestershire, England (1439/57)
1383-0430 Anne of Gloucester* granddaughter of King Edward III - Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (1438/55)
1384-xxxx Sigismondo Polcastro* Italian physician/natural philosopher/ educator - Vicenza (1473/c.89)
In the year 1385, John of Aviz becomes King John I of Portugal,independent from the Kingdom of Castile (Aug 14), King Richard II of England begins a failed invasion of Scotland, but burn Holyrood and Edinburgh (Aug 31), and Olav IV of Norway is elected as titular King of Sweden
1385-0815 Richard de Vere* 11th Earl of Oxford - Hedingham Castle, Essex, England (1417/31)
In the year 1386, the University of Heidelberg is founded (Oct 18).
1386-0312 Ashikaga Yoshimochi* 足利 義持 the 4th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate - Japan (1428/41)
In the year 1387, Charles III ascends to the throne of Navarre (Jan 1), Olaf, King of Norway and Denmark dies (Aug 22), Richard III is imprisoned until he agrees to replace all the councillors in his court (Dec 19), Geoffrey Caucer begins to write his greatest work, The Canterbury Tales, - and all these fine people were born:
1387-0706 Blanche I of Navarre* Regent of Sicily - Pamplona (1441/53)
1388-0914 Claudius Clavus* geographer/probably the first cartographer to put Greenland on a map - Sallin, Funen, Denmark (14xx)
1388-1227 Anne de Mortimer* noblewoman/an ancestor to the royal House of York/grandmother of kings Edward IV and Richard III - England (1411/22)
1389-0927 Cosimo de' Medici* banker/politician/ the first member of the Medici family that de facto ruled Florence - Florence, Republic of Florence (1464/75)
Updated 27.12.2021