Millennia:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades:	1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

Contents 1 Events and trends 1.1 1392 1.2 1394 1.3 1395 1.4 1397 1.5 1398 1.6 1399 2 Births 2.1 1390 2.2 1391 2.3 1393 2.4 1394 2.5 1396 2.6 1397 3 Deaths 3.1 1393 3.2 1394 3.3 1397 3.4 1398

Events and trends

1392

• Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General Yi Seonggye led a coup d'état, 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.

1397

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

1398

• 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

• Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus

1391

• King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
• Gedun Drub, the first Dalai Lama

1393

• John Capgrave, Augustinian theologian

1394

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

1396

• Alfonso V of Aragon

1397

• 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

1394

• Emperor Chokei of Japan
• Anne of Bohemia

1397

• Thomas of Woodstock (son of King Edward III of England)

1398

• Emperor Sukō, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.
• Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty.