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What Happened in 1382

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Major Events

  • Mar 1 Maillotin uprising against taxes in France
  • Mar 15 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence, Italy
  • May 3 Battle of Beverhoutsveld near Bruges in modern-day Belgium - the army of Ghent beats a drunken Bruges militia
  • May 21 Earthquake centered on Dover Straits with estimated magnitude of 6.0 causes widespread damage, including to Canterbury Cathedral
  • Nov 27 Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed

Who Died in 1382

  • May 12 Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
  • Jun 9 Philip of Lead, lawyer of Utrecht, dies
  • Jul 11 Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62
  • Aug 13 Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile, dies giving birth to her third child at 24
  • Sep 10 Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary (1342-82) and Poland (1370-82), dies at 56

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Famous Weddings in 1382

  • Jan 20 King Richard II of England marries Anne of Bohemia and daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor at Westminster Abbey. Anne dies of plague in 1394.



Medieval Popes

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