1387

This article is about the year 1387. For the number, see 1387 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1350s  1360s  1370s  – 1380s –  1390s  1400s  1410s
Years:	1384 1385 1386 – 1387 – 1388 1389 1390

1387 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1387 in poetry

1387 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1387 MCCCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2140
Armenian calendar	836 ԹՎ ՊԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6137
Bengali calendar	794
Berber calendar	2337
English Regnal year	10 Ric. 2 – 11 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1931
Burmese calendar	749
Byzantine calendar	6895–6896
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4083 or 4023     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4084 or 4024
Coptic calendar	1103–1104
Discordian calendar	2553
Ethiopian calendar	1379–1380
Hebrew calendar	5147–5148
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1443–1444
- Shaka Samvat	1309–1310
- Kali Yuga	4488–4489
Holocene calendar	11387
Igbo calendar	387–388
Iranian calendar	765–766
Islamic calendar	788–789
Japanese calendar	Shitoku 4 / Kakei 1 (嘉慶元年)
Julian calendar	1387 MCCCLXXXVII
Korean calendar	3720
Minguo calendar	525 before ROC 民前525年
Thai solar calendar	1929–1930

Year 1387 (MCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January – Sigismund, the future Holy Roman Emperor and husband of Mary, Queen of Hungary, orders the murder of his mother-in-law, Elizabeta Kotromanic, and declares himself joint ruler of Hungary.
• January 1 – Charles III ascends to the throne of Navarre after the death of his father, Charles II.
• January 5 – John I succeeds his father, Peter IV, as King of Aragon and Valencia, and forms an alliance with France and Castile.
• March 11 – Battle of Castagnaro between the Italian cities of Verona and Padua: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.
• June 2 – John Holland, a maternal half-brother of Richard II of England, is created Earl of Huntingdon.
• August 22 – Olaf, King of Norway and Denmark and claimant to the throne of Sweden, dies. The vacant thrones come under the regency of his mother Margaret I of Denmark, who will soon become Queen in her own right.
• December 19 – Battle of Radcot Bridge: Forces loyal to Richard II of England are defeated by a group of rebellious barons known as the Lords Appellant. Richard II is imprisoned until he agrees to replace all the councillors in his court.

Date unknown

• Timur conquers the Muzaffarid Empire in central Persia and appoints three puppet rulers.
• Khan Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde invades the Timurid Empire but has to soon after withdraw due to heavy snow.
• Magha II succeeds his brother, Musa II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire.

Births

• July 6 – Queen Blanche I of Navarre (d. 1441)
• date unknown – Henriette, Countess of Montbéliard, regent of Württemberg (d. 1444)

Deaths

• January – Elizabeth of Bosnia, regent of Hungary
• January 1 – King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
• January 5 – Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
• July 20 – Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
• July 22 – Frans Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
• August 23 – King Olaf IV of Norway/Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)
• date unknown
  • Richard Óg Burke, second Clanricarde
  • Sir David Hanmer, judge, father-in-law of Owain Glyndŵr