Christianity came to Lithuania in the year 1387 and Lithuanians accepted the Christian rituals and new feast days distrustfully.
October 17, 1387 Swells convent Windesheim initiated
October 26, 1387 Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace
In Italy, Battle of Castagnaro, between Giovanni Ordelaffi, for Verona, and John Hawkwood, for Padua, who was the winner.
June 2 - John Holland, a maternal half-brother of Richard II of England, is created Earl of Huntingdon.
August 23 - Olaf IV of Norway/ Olaf III of Denmark dies. The vacant thrones come under the Regency of his mother Margaret I of Denmark who would soon become Queen in her own right.
December 19 - Battle of Radcot Bridge: forces loyal to Richard II defeated by Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby.
Geoffrey Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales.
Queen Margaret I of Denmark accession to the throne.
BalÅ¡a III was born (1387 - May 1421) was the ruler of Zeta from April 1403 - May 1421. He was the son of ÄuraÄ II. His wife was Mara, the granddaughter of the BalÅ¡a Family rival, Karl Thopia.
State leaders in 1387:
Africa
Kano - Bugaya, Emir of Kano (1385-1390)
Mali -
Musa II, King of Mali (1374-1387)
Magha II, King of Mali (1387-1388)
Asia
China (Ming Dynasty) - Hongwu, Emperor of China (1368 - 1398)
Japan
Monarch (Northern Pretender)- Go-Komatsu,Emperor of Japan (1382-1412)
Monarch (Southern Court)- Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan (1383-1392)
Shogun (Ashikaga) - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Shogun of Japan (1368-1394)
Korea (Goryeo Dynasty) - King U, King of Goryeo (1374-1388)
Northern Yuan - Uskhal Khan, Emperor of Northern Yuan (1378-1387)
Europe
Byzantine Empire (Palaeologan Dynasty) - John V, Emperor (1341-1391)
England - Richard II, King of England (1377-1399)
Germany (House of Luxembourg) - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, (1378-1400)
Bavaria-Straubing (House of Wittelsbach) -
William I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (1347-1388)
Albert, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (1347-1404)
Hainaut and Holland
Count - William I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (1347-1388)
Regent - Albert, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (1358-1388)
Middle East and North Africa
Egypt - Barquq, Sultan of Egypt (1382-1389)
Ottoman Empire - Murad I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1359-1389)
weather events in 1387 >>http://www.sci.u-szeged.hu/eghajlattan/akta99/KissA/KissA.html
In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales of 1387 the well-known Prologue describes the dress of each pilgrim. Arguably, it demonstrates that apart from the knight, the poor parson and the ploughman, who personify each of the three traditional divisions of medieval society, every pilgrim is dressed more grandly that the Sumptuary Law would allow. The Canterbury Tales came six years after the Great Revolt of 1381 in which rebellion flared throughout much of England, the Kent and Essex men invaded London, chopped off Archbishop Sudbury's head and terrified the fourteen-year-old Richard II into agreeing concessions on the Poll Tax and other matters. The Poll Tax was an unsuccessful attempt by the government to combat the effects of plague by changing the basis of taxation from a charge on communities (many much less populous following successive plagues), with a tax on individuals who had survived. Chaucer, the court poet, was very aware of the anxieties of the elite in the new post-plague society. His Canterbury pilgrims, as the courtiers encountered them, were arranged 'by rank and degree' and sent back down the road to Canterbury in perfect order, led by the knight: precisely the opposite to the unruly mob which had marched up from Canterbury in 1381.
Henry V, (August 9 or September 16, 1387 – August 31, 1422), King of England (1413-1422), son of Henry IV by Mary de Bohun, was born at Monmouth, Wales, in August or September 1386 or 1387. At the time of his birth during the reign of Richard II Henry was fairly far removed from the throne, preceded by the King and another preceding collateral line of heirs, and the precise date and even year of his birth are not definitely recorded; the September 1387 date appears most commonly quoted. By the time Henry died, he had not only consolidated power as the King of England but had also effectively accomplished what generations of his ancestors had failed to achieve through decades of war: unification of the crowns of England and France in a single person.
In 1387, the English Parliament under pressure from the Lords Appellant demanded that Richard II (of England) remove his unpopular councillors. When he refused, he was told that since he was still a minor, a Council of Government would rule in his place. Richard had the Earl of Arundel, leader of the Lords Appellant, arrested, but Richard's small army led by de Vere was overpowered by the forces of the Lords Appellant outside Oxford, and Richard was apprehended in the Tower of London. Richard’s unpopular councillors were thus disposed of (eight were executed for treason in 1388 and others exiled), and he was forced to accept new ones. Richard was stripped of almost all his authority.In the years which followed, Richard appeared to have heeded the lessons of 1387 and became more cautious in his dealings with the barons. In 1390, a tournament was held to celebrate Richard’s coming of age and the apparent new-found harmony since Richard's uncle John of Gaunt's return from Spain to lead the Lords Appellant. Richard’s team of knights, The Harts, all wore the identical symbol – a white hart – which Richard had chosen for himself. Richard himself favoured genteel interests like fine food, insisting spoons be used at his court and inventing the handkerchief. He beautified Westminster Hall with a new ceiling and was a keen and cultured patron of the arts, architecture and literature. In this sense, he can be seen as an early example of what was later held up as a model Renaissance prince. However, his tastes were before his time and many began to see him as another Edward II figure, somehow unworthy of his military Plantagenet heritage, given his delicate 'unkingly' tastes. Richard also lacked the thirst for battle of his grandfather: his Scottish campaign in 1385 was not decisive, and he signed a 28-year truce with France in 1396 which was hugely unpopular at home in spite of the dividends that peace brought to the kingdom.