1390
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(MCCCXC) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- Jogaila.
- Byzantine Emperor.
- April 19 – Robert III succeeds his father, Robert II, as King of Scotland.
- Teutonic Knights.[1]
- Teutonic Knights begins a 5-week siege of Vilnius. The Duke of Hereford (the future King Henry IV of England) is among the western European knights serving with the coalition.[2]
- September 17 – John VII Palaiologos seeks refuge with the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, after John V Palaiologos is restored by his son, Manuel, and the Republic of Venice.
- October 9 – Henry III succeeds his father, John I, as King of Castile and León.
Date unknown
- Fall of Philadelphia
- The Byzantine enclave of any significance in Anatolia.
- The
- Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, after overthrowing Sultan Hadji II.
- Sultan of Delhi.
- Manuel III succeeds his father, Alexios III, as Emperor of Trebizond (now north eastern Turkey).
- Sikandar But-shikan succeeds Sikandar Shah, as Sultan of Kashmir.
- Ko Cheng succeeds ).
- .
- N'Diklam Sare succeeds Sare N'Dyaye, as ruler of the Jolof Empire (now part of Senegal).
- The Kingdom of Kaffa is established in present day Ethiopia (approximate date).
- Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), is built.
- The ).
- Construction begins on San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.
Births
- October 3 – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447)
- December 27 – Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
- date unknown
- Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, son of Huitzilihuitl (d. 1469)[3]
- probable
- John Dunstaple, English composer (d. 1453)
- Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman and rebel leader (d. 1436)
- Contessina de' Bardi, politically active Florentine woman (d. 1473)
- Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (d. 1441)
Deaths
- January 26 – Adolph IX, Count of Holstein-Kiel (b.c 1327)
- February 16 – Rupert I, Elector Palatine (b. 1309)
- March 20 – Alexios III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1338)
- April 19 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
- philosopher(b. c. 1320)
- August 14 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
- September 23 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
- October 9 – King John I of Castile (fall from a horse) (b. 1358)
- September – Towtiwil, Prince of Black Ruthenia
- date unknown
- Sandaki Mari Djata, Mansa of the Mali Empire
- Keratsa of Bulgaria, Byzantine empress consort
- )
- probable – Altichiero, Italian painter (b. 1330)
References
- OCLC 25726071.
- ISBN 9986-39-112-1.
- ^ "Moctezuma I el Grande" [Moctezuma I the Great] (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas.com. Retrieved June 1, 2019.