History
1386
General
Population: 368 Million*
- Entertainment: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Deaths: Leopold III of Austria
Asia
- China: Start of Ming dynasty in China
Europe
- General: Battle of Sempach – Swiss defeat and kill Leopold III of Austria
- Austria: Death of Leopold III Duke of Austria – killed by Swiss at Sempach
- England: John of Gaunt leads expedition to Castile to overthrow John I (fails 1388)
- German States: Heidelberg U founded
- Italian States: Work starts on Milan cathedral
- Poland: Grand Prince Jagiello of Lithuania marries Jadviga of Poland and becomes Vladislav II King of Poland
- Russia: Plague leaves only five people alive in Smolensk Russia