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| | DL : | Steel crossbow used as weapon of war
| | VA : | Approximate date of birth of the Limbourg Brothers |
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| | M : | The musicians of the papal chapel, Avignon, return with the court; beginnings of Rome as the centre of music
| | DL : | Playing cards displace dice in Germany
| | M : | Guillaume de Machaut dies 13 April |
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| | PH : | Charles IV of Luxembourg dies; succeeded by Wenceslas IV
| | RP : | The Great Schism begins: after the death of Pope Gregory XI, two popes elected; Urban VI at Rome, Clement VII at Avignon
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| | ED : | William of Wykeham founds New College, Oxford
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| | VA : | Robert Campin, artist, born |
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| | PH : | Venice wins the "hundred years war" against Genoa |
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| | PH : | Jadviga, daughter of King Louis I, crowned "king" of Poland
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| | DL : | The first Fr. court ball at the wedding of Charles VI and Isabella of Bavaria
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| | PH : | Grand Prince Jagiello of Lithuania marries Jadviga and becomes Vladislav II, King of Poland
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| | PH : | Sigismund of Brandenburg, son of Charles IV, becomes King of Hungary by marriage
| | VA : | Artist Fra Angelico is born |
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| | PH : | Bajazet I, Emir of the Turks
| | RP : | Pope Boniface IX elected at Rome
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| | PH : | Charles VI seized with madness; his brother Louis becomes Duke of Orleans
| | PH : | Succession dispute in Japan: the Ashikagas become shoguns of Muromachi
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| | PH : | Richard II of England marries Isabella of France at Calais; Anglo-Fr. truce extended to 28 years
| | LT : | Manuel Chrysoloras opens Greek classes in Florence: beginning of revival of Greek literature in Italy
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| | VA : | Paolo di Dono (Uccello) is born | | M : | Francesco Landini dies 2 September |
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| | PH : | Richard II deposed: Henry of Lancaster, son of John of Gaunt, succeeds to the throne as Henry IV
| | VA : | Rogier van der Weyden is born |
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