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Events

Politics and world affairs

France
Although the Church expressly prohibited such a polterabend at the Council of Tours in 1163, on January 28 at the court of the French King Charles VI. on the occasion of the wedding of a lady of honour to Queen Isabeau a Charivari held. During the day, festivals and banquets take place, to which the entire court is invited, in the evening a ball is on the program in the Hôtel Saint-Paul: A fire on this festival, which later became known as Bal des Ardents, kills four friends of the French King Charles VI, who – already temporarily mentally disturbed since the previous year – finally falls into madness. A few days later he transfers the regency to his brother Ludwig von Orléans. But the real power again lies with a regency council consisting of Philip the Bold of Burgundy and Jean de Valois, duc de Berry.

Iberian Peninsula
August 2: After about three years of rule, King Henry III. of Castile and León at the age of 14 and takes over the business of government.

Holy Roman Empire/Hungary
7 March: After the death of Bogislav VI, the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast falls to his brother Wartislav VI, as he has no male descendants. Wartislav thus reunites the legacy of his father Barnim IV in one hand.
July 10: The Sempacherbrief, an order of war of the Old Confederation is closed. It includes the contracting parties to the Pfaffenbrief of the year 1370, i.e. the places Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, Lucerne, Zurich, Zug and Bern and Glarus. He regulates the peace of land among the contracting parties, lays down the banner order, forbids the plunder without prior permission by the captains and demands the proportional distribution of the spoils. It also calls for consideration for monasteries and churches and sparing women who are not involved in military operations.

December 18: King Siegmund of Hungary, Jobst of Moravia and the Habsburger Albrecht III join forces in Znaim. of Austria against the Bohemian and Roman-German King Wenzel.
After prior pledging by Propst Konrad Torer von Törlein, Berchtesgaden collegiate is incorporated into the Salzburg collegiate under Archbishop Pilgrim II of Puchheim.
Conquest of Ritzebüttel Castle by Hamburg

Balkans/Eastern Mediterranean
July: After three months of siege, the Ottomans, under the orders of Celebi, son of Sultan Bayezid I, conquer the Bulgarian capital Weliko Tarnovo. In the absence of Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Shishman, Euthymios of Tarnovo, patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, organized the resistance. After the conquest, a part of the population is massacred, another is forcibly expelled.
29 November: After the death of Leon VI. in France, King James I of Cyprus becomes titular king of Armenia Minor, a title that has no realpolitik need whatsoever