Events

• End of the Kemmu restoration and beginning of the Muromachi period in Japan.
• Start of the reign of Emperor Komyo of Japan, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
• discovery of the Canarian Islands (Lanzarotte Malocello)
• Foundation of Vijayanagara on the southern part of the Deccan plateau in India by the brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya.
• Aberdeen is burned by the English.

Births

• Pope Gregory XI
• Pope Innocent VII
• Tamerlane

Deaths

• Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan