Peasants' Revolt
English peasants take London and demand an end to serfdom
A poll tax roused the peasants of Kent and Essex; led by Wat Tyler and the priest John Ball, they entered London and executed the Archbishop of Canterbury. The 14-year-old Richard II promised to abolish serfdom, but revoked his promises after Tyler was killed.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 1 year earlier
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 21 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 4 years earlier
Asia
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 13 years earlier
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 11 years earlier
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 4 years earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 11 years later
- 1398 Timur sacks Delhi — 17 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 45)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 67)
- Murad I (aged 55)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 49)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 31)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 23)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 21)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 21)
- Richard II (aged 14)
- Sigismund (aged 13)