Year 1384 (MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events May / September 3 – Lisbon's besieged by the Castilian army, during the 1383-1385 Crisis. August 16 – The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitates 100 floggings by a bamboo rod. Ho… (More on 1384)