Events

• King Gongmin is assassinated and King U ascends to the Goryeo throne

Births

• Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey.

Deaths

• July 18 - Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, Italian Renaissance humanist scholar.
• 25 November - Philip II of Taranto, of the Anjou family, Prince of Taranto, Titular Emperor of Costantinoples
• Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan, fourth of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
• King Gongmin of Goryeo
• Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany, fought in the Breton Wars of Succession (b. 1295)
• William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury