1398
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 13th century · 14th century · 15th century |
Decades: | 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s · 1400s · 1410s · 1420s |
Years: | 1395 · 1396 · 1397 · 1398 · 1399 · 1400 · 1401 |
1398 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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Art and literature | |
1398 in poetry | |
Gregorian calendar | 1398 MCCCXCVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2151 |
Armenian calendar | 847 ԹՎ ՊԽԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6148 |
Bengali calendar | 805 |
Berber calendar | 2348 |
English Regnal year | 21 Ric. 2 – 22 Ric. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 1942 |
Burmese calendar | 760 |
Byzantine calendar | 6906–6907 |
Chinese calendar | 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4094 or 4034 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4095 or 4035 |
Coptic calendar | 1114–1115 |
Discordian calendar | 2564 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1390–1391 |
Hebrew calendar | 5158–5159 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1454–1455 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1319–1320 |
- Kali Yuga | 4498–4499 |
Holocene calendar | 11398 |
Igbo calendar | 398–399 |
Iranian calendar | 776–777 |
Islamic calendar | 800–801 |
Japanese calendar | Ōei 5 (応永5年) |
Javanese calendar | 1312–1313 |
Julian calendar | 1398 MCCCXCVIII |
Korean calendar | 3731 |
Minguo calendar | 514 before ROC 民前514年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −70 |
Thai solar calendar | 1940–1941 |
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Year 1398 (MCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- June 25 – Jianwen succeeds his grandfather, Hongwu, as Emperor of Ming Dynasty China.
- 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 5-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, an attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights.
- 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 had been weakened after 4 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 Bosnian nobility dethrone Queen Jelena Gruba and replace her with King Stjepan Ostoja.
- Abdullah succeeds Abu Amir as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco.
- The Teutonic Knights conquer the island of Gotland, near Sweden, which had previously been run by a group of pirates.
- Martin I of Aragon launches a crusade against the Moors in North Africa.
- Yi Bangsuk, heir to the throne of the Joseon Dynasty in modern-day Korea, is murdered during a coup by his older half-brother, Yi Bangwon.
- King Taejo of Joseon abdicates in disgust at his sons' rivalry. Taejo's eldest son Jeongjong succeeds to the throne.
- Trần Ngung is forced to abdicate as ruler of the Tran Dynasty in modern-day Vietnam. Trần An succeeds as ruler.
- Bunei succeeds his father, Satto, as King of Chūzan (modern-day central Okinawa, Japan).
- Fall of the Kingdom of Singapura after it was invaded by the Majapahit Empire.
- 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.
- Glendalough monastery in Wicklow, Ireland is destroyed by English troops.
- Ferapontov Monastery is built in modern-day north-west Russia.
- The Munmyo Confucian shrine and Sungkyunkwan University are built 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
- February 25 – Xuande Emperor of China (d. 1435)
- August 19 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
- date unknown
- Spytek of Melsztyn, Polish nobleman (d. 1439)
- Johannes Gutenberg, German inventor of the printing press
- William Waynflete, English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (d. 1486)
- Cecília Rozgonyi, Hungarian noble and heroine (d. 1434)
Deaths
- January 31 – Former Emperor Sukō of Japan (b. 1334)
- March 24 – Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk
- June 24 – Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
- July 20 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
- September 9 – James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
- October 5 – Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France (b. 1333)
- date unknown – Jeong Dojeon, Korean philosopher
References
- ↑ BBC History - Historic Figures - King Richard II. Accessed 1 May 2013
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