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Year '1389' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

★ February 24 - Queen Margaret of Norway and Denmark defeats Albert of Sweden in battle and becomes ruler of all three kingdoms. Albert is taken prisoner.

★ Goryeo Revolution 1388-1392: King Chang of Goryeo is forced from power and replaced by King Gongyang. The ten year-old Chang and his predecessor, U, are both assassinated later in the year.

★ June 28 - Battle of Kosovo between Serbs and Ottomans. Both Emperor Murad I and the Serbian Prince Lazar were killed in battle.

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★ Change of Emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Murad I (1359-1389) to his son, Beyazid I (1389-1402)

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★ Stefan III succeeds his father as ruler of Serbia.

★ November 2 - Pope Boniface IX succeeds Pope Urban VI as the 203rd pope.

★ Hadji II is restored as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt after overthrowing Sultan Barquq.

★ Hundred Years' War: England and France sign a truce, ending the second phase of the war.

★ Supported by Antipope John XXIII, Louis II overthrows the underage King Ladislas as King of Naples.

★ Vasili I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow after the death of his father, Dmitri Donskoi.

★ Wikramawardhana succeeds Hayam Wuruk as ruler of the Majapahit Empire (now Indonesia).

★ The unpopular Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II of Delhi is murdered and succeeded by his brother, Abu Baker.

★ Biri II succeeds Kade Alunu as King of the Kanem-Bornu Empire (now eastern Chad and Nigeria) and the Empire loses its land in present-day Chad to the Bilala.

★ Sandaki overthrows Magha II as Mansa of the Mali Empire.

★ Abd ar-Rahmân II succeeds Musa II as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty in present-day western Algeria.

★ Abu Tashufin II succeeds his nephew, Abu Hammu II, as ruler of the Abdalwadid Dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.

★ Carmo Convent is built in Lisbon.

Births

★ June 20 - John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)

★ September 27 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)

★ December 24 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)

★ Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki, Polish bishop and statesman (d. 1455)

★ Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop

Deaths

★ May 19 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)

★ June 28 - Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1319)

★ June 28 - Prince Lazar, Prince of Serbia (b. 1329)

★ June 28 - Miloš Obilić, Serbian knight

★ October 15 - Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)

★ Isabella, Countess of Fife (b. 1320)

★ Hayam Wuruk, ruler of the Majapahit Empire (b. 1334)

★ Former King Chang of Goryeo (assassinated)

★ Former King Gongyang of Goryeo (assassinated)

★ Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II of Delhi (murdered)