1388

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s
Years:	1385 1386 1387 1388 1389 1390 1391

1388 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1388 MCCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2141
Armenian calendar	837 ԹՎ ՊԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	6138
Balinese saka calendar	1309–1310
Bengali calendar	794–795
Berber calendar	2338
English Regnal year	11 Ric. 2 – 12 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1932
Burmese calendar	750
Byzantine calendar	6896–6897
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4085 or 3878     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4086 or 3879
Coptic calendar	1104–1105
Discordian calendar	2554
Ethiopian calendar	1380–1381
Hebrew calendar	5148–5149
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1444–1445
- Shaka Samvat	1309–1310
- Kali Yuga	4488–4489
Holocene calendar	11388
Igbo calendar	388–389
Iranian calendar	766–767
Islamic calendar	789–790
Japanese calendar	Kakei 2 (嘉慶２年)
Javanese calendar	1301–1302
Julian calendar	1388 MCCCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3721
Minguo calendar	524 before ROC 民前524年
Nanakshahi calendar	−80
Thai solar calendar	1930–1931
Tibetan calendar	阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1514 or 1133 or 361     — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1515 or 1134 or 362

Year 1388 (MCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February – The entire court of Richard II of England are convicted of treason by the Merciless Parliament, under the influence of the Lords Appellant, and are all either executed or exiled. Richard II effectively becomes a puppet of the Lords Appellant.
• April 9 – Battle of Näfels: Glarus, in alliance with the Old Swiss Confederacy, decisively defeat the Habsburgs, despite being outnumbered sixteen to one.
• May 18 – Battle of Buyur Lake: A Chinese Ming invasion force under General Lan Yu defeats a large Mongolian army under Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür, and captures 100 members of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. Uskhal Khan is killed whilst trying to escape, and is succeeded as Khan of Mongolia by his rival, Jorightu. The invading Chinese army destroys Karakorum, the capital of the Mongol Empire.[1]
• August 5 – Battle of Otterburn: A Scottish army, led by James Douglas, defeats an English army, capturing their leader, Harry Hotspur. Douglas is killed during the battle.
• August 27 – Battle of Bileća: The Bosnians check the Ottoman advance.
• December 12 – Maria of Enghien sells the Lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.

Date unknown

• Mircea I of Wallachia takes control of the region of Dobruja, thus preventing its occupation by the Ottomans.
• Petru of Moldavia receives Pokuttya, as a pawn for a loan to the Polish king.
• The revision of Wycliffe's Bible is completed by John Purvey, and Wyclif's followers, known as the Lollards, begin to be persecuted in England.
• John of Gaunt, the uncle of Richard II of England, makes peace with Castile and gives up his claim to the Castilian throne, by allowing his daughter Catherine of Lancaster to marry Prince Henry, the eldest son of John I of Castile.
• The title of Prince of Asturias is created.
• Ramesuan is reinstated as King of Ayutthaya (modern-day southern Thailand), after dethroning and executing 17-year-old King Thong Lan.
• Goryeo Revolution: General Yi Seong-gye begins a four year revolution in Goryeo (modern-day Korea), after being ordered by King U of Goryeo to attack the superior Chinese army. King U is forced from power, and replaced by his son Chang.
• Tran Ngung overthrows Tran Hien as King of Vietnam.
• Omar I is succeeded by Sa'id, as King of the Kanem-Bornu Empire (modern-day east Chad and Nigeria). Sa'id is succeeded in the same year by Kade Alunu. Omar and Sa'id are both killed by Bilala invaders from the west.
• Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II succeeds Firuz Shah Tughlaq as Sultan of Delhi.
• Charles VI of France takes complete control of the government, ending the regency of his uncle, Philip the Bold.
• The University of Cologne is established; by the 21st century it will be the largest university in Germany.
• Cozia Monastery is built in Wallachia.
• Ljubostinja Monastery is built in Serbia.

Births

• September 14 – Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
• date unknown
  • Juliana Berners, English writer
  • Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
  • Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (d. 1428)
  • Dai Jin, Chinese painter (d. 1462)
  • Yiğit Şahiner, Turkish musician, historian

Deaths

• March 4 – Thomas Usk, English author
• August 14 – James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (killed in battle)
• July 15 – Agnes of Durazzo, titular Latin empress consort of Constantinople (d. 1313)
• August 15 – Adalbertus Ranconis de Ericinio, Bohemian theologian
• date unknown
  • Simon de Burley, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  • Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq of Delhi
  • Uskhal Khan, Emperor Tianyuan of Northern Yuan

References

1. Langlois, John D. Jr. (1998). "The Hung-wu reign, 1368–1398". The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 159. ISBN 0-521-24332-7.