1383

This article is about the year 1383.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1350s  1360s  1370s  – 1380s –  1390s  1400s  1410s
Years:	1380 1381 1382 – 1383 – 1384 1385 1386

1383 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1383 in poetry

1383 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1383 MCCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2136
Armenian calendar	832 ԹՎ ՊԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6133
Bengali calendar	790
Berber calendar	2333
English Regnal year	6 Ric. 2 – 7 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1927
Burmese calendar	745
Byzantine calendar	6891–6892
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4079 or 4019     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4080 or 4020
Coptic calendar	1099–1100
Discordian calendar	2549
Ethiopian calendar	1375–1376
Hebrew calendar	5143–5144
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1439–1440
- Shaka Samvat	1305–1306
- Kali Yuga	4484–4485
Holocene calendar	11383
Igbo calendar	383–384
Iranian calendar	761–762
Islamic calendar	784–785
Japanese calendar	Eitoku 3 (永徳３年)
Julian calendar	1383 MCCCLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3716
Minguo calendar	529 before ROC 民前529年
Thai solar calendar	1925–1926

Year 1383 (MCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• May 17 – King John I of Castile and Leon marries Beatrice of Portugal
• July 7 – The childless James of Baux, ruler of Taranto and Achaea and last titular Latin Emperor, dies. As a result:
  • Charles III of Naples becomes ruler of Achaea (now southern Greece).
  • Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, the widower of Joanna I of Naples, becomes ruler of Taranto (now eastern Italy).
  • Louis I, Duke of Anjou inherits the claim to the Latin Empire (now western Turkey) but never uses the title of Emperor.
• October 22 – King Fernando I of Portugal dies and is succeeded by his daughter, Beatrice of Portugal. A period of civil war and anarchy, known as the 1383–85 Crisis, begins in Portugal due to Beatrice being married to the King John I of Castile and Leon.

Date unknown

• The Teutonic Knights recommence war against pagan Lithuania.
• Rao Chanda succeeds Rao Biram Dev as Rathore ruler of Marwar (now in western India).
• Löwenbräu beer is first brewed.
• Wat Phra That Doi Suthep Temple is built in present-day Thailand by King Kuena of Lanna.
• Construction of the Bastille is completed in Paris.

Births

• April 30 – Anne of Gloucester, granddaughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1438)
• September 4 – Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (d. 1451)
• November 9 – Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1441)
• date unknown – Pope Eugene IV (d. 1447)

Deaths

• March 1 – Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
• March 3 – Hugh III of Arborea
• June 5 – Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
• June 8 – Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
• June 15 – John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)
• July 7   James of Baux, titular Latin Emperor
• October 22 – King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
• December 7 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337)