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| 1377 |
| | | Jogaila inherits a pagan Lithuanian kingdom which has been extended as far south as Kiev | |
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| 1378 |
| | | John Hawkwood, a condottiere in command of the White Company, is appointed captain general of Florence | |
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| 1379 |
| | | The French cardinals, objecting to the new Italian pope, elect their own man as Clement VII - and thus inaugurate the Great Schism of the papacy | |
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| c. 1380 |
| | | Koreans establish the first type foundry, casting movable type in bronze | |
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| c. 1380 |
| | | With the development of clocks, the hour becomes a fixed period of time - one twenty-fourth part of the day | |
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| 1380 |
| | | Dimitri, grand prince of Moscow, leads other Russian princes in a crushing victory over the Mongols on the Kulikovo plain | |
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| 1380 |
| | | The Venetian blockade of Chioggia costs Genoa her fleet and ends Genoese rivalry with Venice in the eastern Mediterranean | |
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| 1381 |
| | | A poll tax imposed in England provokes widespread unrest, which flares up in the Peasants' Revolt | |
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| 1381 |
| | | Wat Tyler, leader of the Kentish rebels, meets Richard II at Smithfield - before being struck and wounded by the Lord Mayor of London | |
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| 1383 |
| | | Timur begins twenty years of almost continuous conquest with the capture and destruction of Herat | |
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