Explore 49 historical events from 1390–1399.
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He led the rebellion of the Lords App…
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1355)
Philip III, also known as Philip the Good, was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death in 1467. He was a member of a cadet line of the House of Valois, to which all 15th-century…
Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (died 1467)
John I, called by posterity the Hunter or the Lover of Elegance, or the Abandoned in his lifetime, was the King of Aragon from 1387 until his death.
John I of Aragon (born 1350)
William Courtenay was Archbishop of Canterbury (1381–1396), having previously been Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London.
William Courtenay, English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (born 1342)
The Battle of Rovine took place on 17 May 1395. The Wallachian army led by Voivod Mircea the Elder opposed the Ottoman invasion personally led by Sultan Bayezid I the Thunderbolt. …
Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army
Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr and 3rd Baron West was an English nobleman and politician.
Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (died 1427)
Konstantin (Kostadin) Dejanović or Konstantin Dragaš was a Serbian magnate that ruled a large province in eastern Macedonia under Ottoman suzerainty, during the fall of the Serbian…
Konstantin Dejanović/Constantine Dragaš, Serbian ruler (born 1355)
Albert III of Austria (9 September 1349 – 29 August 1395), known as Albert with the Braid (Pigtail) (German: Albrecht mit dem Zopf), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of …
Albert III, duke of Austria (born 1349)
Wallachia is a geographical region of modern-day Romania, as well as one of the two historical Romanian principalities that laid the foundation for the establishment of the modern …
An outnumbered Wallachian army repulsed invading Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rovine
Philippa of England, also known as Philippa of Lancaster, was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1406 to 1430 by marriage to King Eric of the Kalmar Union. She was the daught…
Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (died 1430)
Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of medieval Japan. Yoshinori was the son of the third s…
Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (died 1441)
James I was King of Scots from 1406 to 1437. The youngest of three sons, he was born in Dunfermline Abbey to King Robert III and his wife Annabella Drummond. His older brother Davi…
James I, king of Scotland (died 1437)
Mary de Bohun was the first wife of Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Northampton, who became King Henry IV. As she died before her husband came to the throne, Mary was never queen. She a…
Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (bornc
Anne of Bohemia, also known as Anne of Luxembourg, was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the daughter of Charles I…
Anne of Bohemia, English queen (born 1366)
Dorothea of Montau was an anchoress and visionary of 14th century Prussia. After centuries of veneration in Central Europe, she was beatified in 1976.
Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess (born 1347)
Emperor Chōkei was the 98th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from 1368 through 1383. His personal name was Yutanari (寛成) and his rega…
Emperor Chōkei of Japan (born 1343)
Robert of Geneva was elected to the papacy as Clement VII by the cardinals who opposed Pope Urban VI and was the first antipope residing in Avignon, France. His election led to the…
Antipope Clement VII (born 1342)
Timur, also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Ir…
Timur takes Baghdad from Sultan Ahmad Jalayir for the first time.
Arthur III, more commonly known as Arthur de Richemont, was briefly Duke of Brittany from 1457 until his death. He is noted primarily, however, for his role as a leading military c…
Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (died 1458)
Albert (V) d'Este was Lord of Ferrara and Modena from 1388 until his death.
Alberto d'Este, Lord of Ferrara and Modena (born 1347)
Chŏng Mongju, also known by his art name P'oŭn (포은), was a Korean statesman, diplomat, philosopher, poet, calligrapher and reformist of the Goryeo period. He was a major figure of …
Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (born 1338)
The Tokhtamysh–Timur war was fought from 1386 to 1395 between Tokhtamysh, the khan of the Golden Horde, and the warlord and conqueror Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire, in the a…
Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southea
The Lithuanian Civil War of 1389–1392 was the second civil conflict between Jogaila, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his cousin Vytautas. At issue was control of th…
Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392): The Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
Robert II was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce, he was named R…
Robert II, king of Scotland (born 1316)