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| 1387 |
| | | The Lords Appellant, a group of powerful barons, make political demands on Richard II and defeat the king's forces at Radcot Bridge, near Oxford | |
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| 1387 |
| | | Henry is one of the Lords Appellant, who are led by his uncle the Duke of Gloucester | |
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| c. 1387 |
| | | Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death | |
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| 1389 |
| | | Victory at Kosovo gives the Ottoman Turks control over Serbia, which becomes a vassal state | |
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| 1389 |
| | | With a victory near Falköping, Margaret becomes regent of Sweden as well as Denmark and Norway | |
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| 1389 |
| | | After two years, in which the Lords Appellant have been in the ascendant, John of Gaunt helps Richard II gradually to recover his authority as king | |
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| 1390 |
| | | On the death of his father, Robert II, Robert III becomes king of Scotland | |
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| c. 1390 |
| | | Fan vaulting becomes part of the Gothic tradition, seen to perfection in the cloisters of Gloucester cathedral | |
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| 1391 |
| | | Construction begins on a canal from Lübeck south to the Elbe, linking the Baltic and the North Sea | |
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| 1392 |
| | | Charles VI, king of France, suffers the first of many violent fits of madness | |
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