Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades: 1350s  1360s  1370s  – 1380s –  1390s  1400s  1410s
Years: 1382 1383 1384 – 1385 – 1386 1387 1388
1385 in topic:
Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works
1385 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1385
MCCCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita 2138
Armenian calendar 834
ԹՎ ՊԼԴ
Bahá'í calendar -459 – -458
Bengali calendar 792
Berber calendar 2335
Buddhist calendar 1929
Burmese calendar 747
Byzantine calendar 6893 – 6894
Chinese calendar 甲子年十一月二十日
(4021/4081-11-20) 乙丑年十一月廿九日
(4022/4082-11-29)
Coptic calendar 1101 – 1102
Ethiopian calendar 1377 – 1378
Hebrew calendar 5145 – 5146
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1440 – 1441
 - Shaka Samvat 1307 – 1308
 - Kali Yuga 4486 – 4487
Holocene calendar 11385
Iranian calendar 763 – 764
Islamic calendar 786 – 787
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 3718
Thai solar calendar 1928

Year 1385 (MCCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• July 17—Charles VI of France marries Isabeau of Bavaria
• August 14—Battle of Aljubarrota: John of Aviz defeats John I of Castile in the decisive battle of the 1383-1385 Crisis. John of Aviz is crowned King John I of Portugal, ending Queen Beatrice's rule, and Portugal's independence from Castile is secured.
• August 14—The Union of Krewo establishes the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania through the proposed marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Duke Jagiello of Lithuania, and sees the acceptance of Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite.
• 18 September—Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha near Berat.
• October 15—The Battle of Valverde is fought between the armies of Portugal and Castile.
• The marriage of Charles VI of France and Isabella of Bavaria-Straubing is celebrated with France's first court ball.
• A group of Hungarian nobels help Charles III of Naples to overthrow Queen Mary as ruler of Hungary and Croatia.
• Scotland resists a small invasion force from England lead by Richard II.
• Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde conquers parts the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia, causing a rift between himself and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia.
• Olav IV of Norway is elected as King of Sweden, in opposition to the unpopular King Albert.
• Construction of:
  • Castello Estense in Ferrara (present-day Italy)
  • Bodiam Castle (East Sussex, England)
• The Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty relents after eighteen tribute missions over the previous eight years and agrees to invest King U of Goryeo.

Births

• Edmund de Langley, 1st duke of York(d.1402)
• June 23 – Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (d. 1459)
• Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (approximate date; d. 1441)
• John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (d. 1421)
• John I of Alençon (d. 1415)
• Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Somerset (d. 1429)
• August 15 Patrick Wong of England (d. 1470

Deaths

• June 28 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire
• August 7 – Joan of Kent, Dowager Princess of Wales, widow of Edward, the Black Prince (b. 1328)
• September 18 – Balša II, ruler of Zeta
• October 15 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
• December 19 – Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. 1319)
• date unknown – Xu Da, Chinese military leader (b. 1332)