(Feature Photo: King Richard II of England encountering the soldiers of the Earl of Northumberland, Miniature illustration from the book The Capture and Death of King Richard II; Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
1370
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England
1371
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England
1372
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England
1373
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England
1374
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England
1375
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England
1376
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England
1377
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III, king of England, dies, and Richard II succeeds him
June 21, Edward III, king of England, dies, aged 64, at Sheen Palace in Surrey
1378
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1379
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1380
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
An English law is created expressly forbids monasteries in Ireland from accepting Irish students (The Druids, pg. 160)
1381
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1382
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1383
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
The Catholic church, St. Mary del Mar, in Barcelona, Spain, is finished (Photo: Closeup of carved marble detail of what looks like a dragon and another creature with rams horns and wings outside the door, Credit: Deborah Marino, 2022)
1384
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1385
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
A sculpture of the Countess consort of Barcelona, Girona and Osona, who died in 1058, is made by Guillem Morell and placed in one of the side chapels in the Cathedral in Girona, Spain; It is said that the gold and red stripes on the sepulcher above her is the earliest representation of the Catalonian flag that is used to this day (Photo Credit: Deborah Marino, 2022)
1386
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1387
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1388
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1389
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1389
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1390
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
The medieval Irish historian, Maghnus Ó Duibhgeánnáin, compiles the Book of Ballymote, which includes a copy of the Leabhar na gCeart (Book of Rights); He includes a treatise on Ogham, the Irish Celtic "tree alphabet" with an alphabet key (The Druids, pg. 164) (Beautiful illustration of the Ogham alphabet by Yuri Leitch, via symbolsage.com)
1391
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1392
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1393
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1394
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1395
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1396
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1397
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1398
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England
1399
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II, king of England, abdicates, and Henry IV Bolingbroke succeeds him
Need to combine:
1380
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England (House of Plantagenet) –Acamapichtli is the first king of the Aztecs Charles V of France dies and Charles VI becomes king of France
1381
RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England (House of Plantagenet) –Acamapichtli is the first king of the Aztecs Charles VI is king of France
Peasants Revolt in London
1387
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England (last of the House of Plantagenet) – Acamapichtli is the first king of the Aztecs (some records have him dying this year, others say 1403)
Geoffrey Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales (finishes in 1400), in which he tells the tales of different members of society traveling together on crusade/pilgrimage
1392
RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard II is king of England (last of the House of Plantagenet) – Joseon dynasty/kingdom begins in Korea when Yi Seonggye is crowned king
1394
Prince Henry (the Navigator) of Portugal is born to King John I of Portugal and Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt of England
1395
The Gyeongbokgung Palace is built in Seoul, Korea and is the royal palace of the Joseon dynasty, at one time the palace grounds covered 40 acres and contained 500 buildings, being a royal city within the capital—a city within a city, interesting! (Later, most of the buildings will be destroyed during the Japanese colonial occupation, but some of the main buildings still stand in downtown Seoul) (A Brief History of Korea)
1396
Capital of Korea is moved to Hanyang (modern day Seoul)
1397
Ptolemy’s Geography makes it back to Europe by way of Chrysoloras, who was teaching in Florence at this time (The Fourth Part of the World pg. 155)
1399
Richard II is dying (he dies next year in February) and Henry IV, the first Lancastrian monarch, becomes king of England