* 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.

* Principality of Lüneburg: 1369 – 1388

* 1421 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England ( b. 1388 )

* 1388 – Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer ( d. 1438 )

* Goryeo Revolution in Korea ( 1388 – 1392 ): King Chang of Goryeo is forced from power and replaced by King Gongyang.

* March 22 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England ( killed in battle ) ( born 1388 )

* probable – Salvestro de ' Medici, provost of Florence ( d. 1388 )

* Goryeo Revolution 1388 – 1392: In present-day Korea, rebel leader General Yi Seonggye with the support of the Ming overthrows King Gongyang and crowns himself King Taejo, ending the Goryeo Dynasty and establishing the Joseon Dynasty.

* November 3 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader ( mortally wounded in battle ) ( b. 1388 )

* Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence ( 1388 – 1421 )

In 1392, Yi Seong-gye established the Joseon Dynasty ( 1392 – 1910 ) after a coup in 1388.

From then till 1405, nine members of the moderately enlightened Carraresi family succeeded one another as lords of the city, with the exception of a brief period of Scaligeri overlordship between 1328 and 1337 and two years ( 1388 – 1390 ) when Giangaleazzo Visconti held the town.

# Bianca ( 1336 – 1388 ), married in 1350 to Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan.

In 1378, Philip the Bold acquired the domain of Champmol just outside Dijon, to build the Chartreuse de Champmol ( 1383 – 1388 ), a Carthusian monastery (" Charterhouse "), which he intended to house the tombs of his dynasty.

* Joan of Brittany ( Nantes, 12 August 1387 – 7 December 1388 )

*# Catherine, Princess of France ( Paris, 4 February 1378 – November 1388, buried at Abbaye De Maubuisson, France ), m. John of Berry, Count of Montpensier ( son of John, Duke of Berry )

John Howard was the son of Sir Robert Howard ( 1385 – 1436 ) and the former Lady Margaret de Mowbray ( 1388 – 1459 ), eldest daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk ( of the first creation ) ( 1366 – 1399 ) and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan ( 1366 – 1425 ).

Nyborg church-or Church of Our Lady, which is the real name-was built between 1388 – 1428 and was dedicated to Jesus ' mother, Mary, on the opening during Pentecost 1428.

* James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas ( 1358 – 1388 ), influential lord in the Kingdom of Scotland

In 1388, Henry married Catherine of Lancaster ( 1372 – 1418 ), the daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Gaunt's second wife, Constance of Castile, who was the elder daughter of King Peter of Castile.

After two decades of conflicts of varying intensity, the parties arrived at compromise through means of marriage: the future Henry III of Castile ( 1379 – 1406 ) was married to Catherine of Lancaster in 1388.

## Count Ulrich of Württemberg ( died 1388 in the Battle of Döffingen ) in 1362.

Reappointed as warden of the east march, he commanded the English forces against James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas, at the Battle of Otterburn on 10 August 1388, where he was captured, but soon ransomed for a fee of 7000 marks.

The victory of the Scots over the English at the Battle of Otterburn in Northumberland in August 1388 set in motion Carrick's fall from power.

In 1388 the Scots defeated the English at the Battle of Otterburn where the Scots ' commander, James, Earl of Douglas, was killed.

Although the Scots army defeated the English at the Battle of Otterburn in Northumberland in August 1388, its leader James, earl of Douglas was killed.

Habsburgian attempts to reconquer the valley were repelled in the Battle of Näfels of 1388.

The King of the Serbs and Bosnia was also expecting a bigger Ottoman offensive since his army, commanded by Vlatko Vuković, wiped out a large Turkish raiding party in the Battle of Bileća in 1388.

Joanna's father, Peter was killed while at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, her mother, Isabella died in 1388, having outlived Joanna by ten years.

In England songs about military and naval subjects were a major part of the output of ballad writers from the 16th century onwards, including one of the earliest British ballads ‘ The Ballad of Chevy Chase ’, which deals with the events of the Scottish victory of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 and may date to the early 15th century.

Glarus also took the opportunity to rebel against Habsburg control and established its independence in the Battle of Näfels in 1388.

On August 27, 1388, Grand Duke Vlatko defeated an Ottoman raiding party ( some 18, 000 strong ) that had invaded Hum in the Battle of Bileća.

The ballads are thought to have been based on the events of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388, although the account of the battle is not historically accurate and it may relate to border skirmishes up to fifty years later.

Ottoman Empire first reached Bosnia in 1388 where they were defeated by Bosnian forces in the Battle of Bileca and then were forced to retreat.

century, the use of axes is increasingly noted by Froissart in his Chronicle, with King Jean II using one at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 and Sir James Douglas at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.

In the Battle of Näfels in 1388, an Austrian army of Albert III, the successor of Leopold, was defeated, and in the peace treaty concluded the next year, Glarus maintained its independence from the Habsburgs.

* April 7: Näfelser Fahrt¹ in the Canton of Glarus, commemoration of the Battle of Näfels ( 1388 )

* Percy Arms, Otterburn, Northumberland, commemorates the Battle of Otterburn in 1388, where Sir Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, led the English army.

Following the death of the 2nd Earl at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 without legitimate issue, the Earldom passed to a bastard son of ' The Good Sir James ', the poetically named Archibald the Grim, the Lord of Galloway.

* James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas ( 1358 – 1388 ), killed at the Battle of Otterburn

In 1388, Sir John de Montgomerie captured Henry, Lord Percy at the Battle of Otterburn.

The Battle of Otterburn took place according to Scottish sources on 5 August 1388, or 19 August according to English sources, as part of the continuing border skirmishes between the Scottish and English.

Richard's defiant response to the Parliament, and attempts to convict its promoters of treason, ultimately led to the Battle of Radcot Bridge and the Merciless Parliament of 1388.