Western Schism
Two popes, then three, excommunicate each other
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Soon after the popes returned from Avignon, cardinals unhappy with Urban VI elected a rival pope who went back to Avignon, and Europe split between their obediences. The Council of Pisa (1409) added a third pope, and the schism ended only at the Council of Constance in 1417.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 2 years later
Middle East
- 1354 Ottomans take Gallipoli — 24 years earlier
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 24 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 1 year earlier
Asia
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 10 years earlier
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 8 years earlier
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 1 year earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 14 years later
- 1398 Timur sacks Delhi — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 42)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 64)
- Charles IV (aged 62)
- Murad I (aged 52)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 46)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 28)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 20)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 18)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 18)
- Richard II (aged 11)