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Contents
Events and Trends
1392
1394
1395
1397
1398
1399
Births
1390
1391
1393
1394
1396
1397
Deaths
1393
1394
1397
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.