1390s

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Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

Decades: 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s

Years: 1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399

Table of contents

1 Events and Trends
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events and Trends

Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General Yi Seonggye led a coup d'etat, overthrowing the kingdom of Goryeo and founding the kingdom of Joseon
End of the reign of Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan

1394 Expulsion of Jews from France. 1395 End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family.

Richard Whittington aka Dick Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London
John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset.

Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed.
Construction of the Stecknitz Canal as one of the oldest artificial waterways of the world.
Timur arrived on the bank of the Indus River, and proceeded to sack Delhi.

1399 Henry IV becomes King of England.

Births

1390 future Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus

King Duarte of Portugal (†1438)
Gedun Drub, the first Dalai Lama

1393 John Capgrave, Augustinian theologian

Prince Henry the Navigator, explorer (+ 1460).
Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer.

1396 Alfonso V of Aragon

King Sejong the Great of Joseon, the humane scientist ruler of Korea
August 10 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

Deaths

1393 Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan, fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

1397 * Thomas of Woodstock (son of King Edward III of England)

Emperor Suko of Japan, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.
Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty.