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The Scottish lord William Douglas, 1st earl of Douglas, dies at Douglas, Lanarkshire, in May at age 56 (approximate), having long since reconciled with Robert II and been appointed warden of the marshes.
Flanders passes to Burgundy upon the death of the count of Flanders, whose rebellious followers will be pacified within a year through cruel measures of repression.
Genoa's popular forces take over the city and will control the office of the doge until 1515.
Lisbon comes under siege by forces sent by Castile's Juan, who has married the Portuguese infanta Beatrix (see 1383), but the people of Portugal resist his claims to the throne (see 1385).
The former Hungarian princess Jadwiga is crowned "king" of Poland October 15 at age 10 (or 11) (see 1382). Daughter of the late Louis I, she is under pressure from the nation's magnates to marry the Lithuanian grand duke Wladyslaw Jagiello (see 1386).
John Wycliffe dies at Lutterworth, Leicestershire, December 31 at age 64 following a paralytic stroke (see 1382; 1388), but others will carry on his work (see Sawtrey, 1401).
The foundering University of Vienna that was chartered in 1365 is reorganized by the Austrian duke Albrecht III, who provides a generous endowment, broadens its curriculum, and extends its enrollment to admit students from a wider geographical area. The university will survive as the oldest institution of higher learning in the German-speaking world, with particularly high standing in the fields of medicine, law, and theology.
Statutes of the Lega del Chianti established in Tuscany prohibit growers from picking grapes before September 29 "because prior to that date the wine would not be good."
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