1398

Year 1398 (MCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1398 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1398
MCCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita2151
Armenian calendar847
ԹՎ ՊԽԷ
Assyrian calendar6148
Balinese saka calendar1319–1320
Bengali calendar805
Berber calendar2348
English Regnal year21 Ric. 2  22 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar1942
Burmese calendar760
Byzantine calendar6906–6907
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4094 or 4034
     to 
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4095 or 4035
Coptic calendar1114–1115
Discordian calendar2564
Ethiopian calendar1390–1391
Hebrew calendar5158–5159
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1454–1455
 - Shaka Samvat1319–1320
 - Kali Yuga4498–4499
Holocene calendar11398
Igbo calendar398–399
Iranian calendar776–777
Islamic calendar800–801
Japanese calendarŌei 5
(応永5年)
Javanese calendar1312–1313
Julian calendar1398
MCCCXCVIII
Korean calendar3731
Minguo calendar514 before ROC
民前514年
Nanakshahi calendar−70
Thai solar calendar1940–1941
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1524 or 1143 or 371
     to 
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1525 or 1144 or 372

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • March 15 Trần Thuận Tông is forced to abdicate as ruler of the Trần Dynasty in modern-day Vietnam, in favour of his three-year-old son Trần Thiếu Đế.
  • April - May The Bosnian nobility dethrone Queen Helen and replace her with Stephen Ostoja.
  • June 25 Jianwen succeeds his grandfather, Hongwu, as Emperor of Ming Dynasty China.
  • July The Stecknitz Canal is completed between the rivers Elbe and Trave (at Lübeck) in modern-day north Germany, one of the earliest navigable summit level canals in the world.
  • September
    • King Richard II of England exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (the future Henry IV of England) for 10 years, in order to end Henry's feud with Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who is also exiled.[1]
    • As France withdraws its support for Antipope Benedict XIII, an army led by Geoffrey Boucicaut occupies Avignon, and starts a five-year siege of the papal palace.
  • October 12 The Treaty of Salynas is signed by Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Konrad von Jungingen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, in an attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights.
  • October 14 King Taejo of Joseon abdicates the throne of the Joseon dynasty in modern-day Korea, following the murder of his heir Yi Bangsuk, during a coup by Yi's older half-brother, Yi Bang-won, in The First Strife Of Princes. Taejo's eldest son Jeongjong succeeds to the throne.
  • November 11 Janus succeeds his father, James I, as King of Cyprus and claimant to the throne of Armenian Cilicia.
  • December 17 Timur defeats the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, which has been weakened after four years of civil war. Following his victory, Timur's Islamic troops sack the city of Delhi, and proceed to massacre hundreds of thousands of the state's Hindu inhabitants.

Date unknown

  • The Teutonic Knights recommence their raids of Lithuania.
  • The Teutonic Knights conquer the island of Gotland, near Sweden, which has previously been run by the piratical Victual Brothers.
  • Martin of Aragon launches a crusade against the Moors in North Africa.
  • The Kingdom of Singapura falls, after being invaded by the Majapahit Empire.
  • Abdullah succeeds Abu Amir as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco.
  • Bunei succeeds his father, Satto, as King of Chūzan (modern-day central Okinawa, Japan).
  • Glendalough monastery in Wicklow, Ireland is destroyed by English troops.
  • Ferapontov Monastery is founded in modern-day northwest Russia by Therapont of Belozersk.
  • The Munmyo Confucian shrine and Sungkyunkwan University are founded in modern-day Seoul.
  • Mount Grace Priory is established in Yorkshire, England.
  • According to fringe theorists, the Scottish explorer Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, reaches North America.

Births

  • August 19 Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
  • date unknown
    • Cecília Rozgonyi, Hungarian noble and heroine (d. 1434)
    • Spytek of Melsztyn, Polish nobleman (d. 1439)
    • Moctezuma I, second Aztec emperor (d. 1469)
    • William Waynflete, English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (d. 1486)
    • Johannes Gutenberg, German inventor of the printing press
    • Tlacaélel, Aztec warrior, thinker, high priest and noble for the Mexica Empire (d. 1487)

Deaths

References

  1. BBC History - Historic Figures - King Richard II. Accessed 1 May 2013
  2. Rypka, Jan (1960). "Burhãn al-Dīn". In Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 1327–1328. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_1543. OCLC 495469456.
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