1399

1399 in various
Minguo calendar
	513 before ROC; 民前513年
Nanakshahi calendar	−69
Thai solar calendar	1941–1942
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年; (male Earth-Tiger); 1525 or 1144 or 372; — to —; 阴土兔年; (female Earth-Rabbit); 1526 or 1145 or 373

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century; 14th century ; 15th century;
Decades:	1370s; 1380s; 1390s ; 1400s; 1410s;
Years:	1396; 1397; 1398; 1399 ; 1400; 1401; 1402;

Year 1399 (MCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar

Events

January – Timur the Lame captures and sacks Haridwar.
February 3 – John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II of England and father of Henry Bolingbroke, dies.
March 18 – Richard II of England cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's lands.
July 4 – While Richard II of England is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated lands.
Zhu Di) of China starts a rebellion in Beijing
.

Mongol Golden Horde forces, led by Khan Temür Qutlugh and Emir Edigu, annihilate a crusading army led by former Golden Horde Khan Tokhtamysh, and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania
.

August 19 – Richard II of England is taken prisoner upon his return from Ireland.
September 29 – Having regained his father's lands, Henry Bolingbroke is urged to take the crown from the unpopular Richard II of England. Parliament charges Richard II with committing crimes against his subjects and eventually forces him to abdicate.
September 30 – Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king of England.
October 13 – Henry IV of England is crowned.
October 19 – Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
November 1 – John V, Duke of Brittany begins his reign.

Faraj succeeds his father,
Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
.
Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire invades Mamluk-occupied Syria. A rift forms between Sultan Bayezid and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who also wanted to conquer Syria.
Ladislaus regains the throne of Naples, after overthrowing King Louis II.
King
Jogaila becomes sole ruler of Poland, after the death of his co-ruling wife, Queen Jadwiga
.

The Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece) resists an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
Traditional foundation date of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, which survives until 1950.
Iuga becomes prince of Moldavia

3 February

17 July

August 15 – Ide Pedersdatter Falk, Danish noblewoman (b. 1358)
August 26 – Mikhail II, Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1333)
September 22 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
October 3 – Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (b. c.1366)^[2]
October 5 – Raymond of Capua, Italian Dominic friar and venerated Christian (b. 1330)
November 1 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
date unknown
- Spytek z Melsztyna
  , Polish nobleman
- William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (b. 1350
  )
- Sultan Barquq of Egypt
- Trần Ngung, former ruler of Trần dynasty Vietnam (forced to commit suicide)
- Stephen I of Moldavia

^ "John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster | English prince". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
^ "Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved March 18, 2019.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s
Years:	1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 1401 1402

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