Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan like it used to look
This article of the decade of 1390s will serve mostly as historical background material as individual year files will as a rule not be published.
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In the year 1390, Robert III becomes King of Scotland (Apr 19), the Kingdom of Kaffa is established in present day Ethiopia, Templo Mayor is built in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, and construction begins on San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.
In the year 1391, Anti-Jewish pogroms erupt in Seville, Spain (Jun 6) and spread elsewhere in Europe, Bridget of Sweden is canonized, the Chinese invent toilet paper for use by their emperors
1391-1031 Duarte I of Portugal* King of Portugal, “the King Philosopher” - Viseu, Kingdom of Portugal (1438/46)
In the year 1392, the Goryeo Dynasty ends and the Joseon Dynasty (for the next 500 years) begins in Korea by the crowning of Yi Seong-gye (Aug 5), Maria, Queen of Sicily defeats an army of rebel barons,
1392-0101 Johanna van Polanen* Dutch noblewoman/married at age 11 to Engelbert I of Nassau (1445/53)
1392-1218 John VIII Palaiologos* the penultimate Byzantine Emperor - (1448/55)
In the year 1393, King James I of Cyprus inherits the title of King of Armenia, Chinese records state that 720,000 sheets of toilet paper were produced for members of the imperial court at Beijing, and Byzantium loses Thessaly to the growing Ottoman Empire.
1393-0203 Henry Percy* nobleman/military commander - Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England (1455/62)
1393-12xx Margaret of Nevers* a pawn in the dynastic struggles/regarded as the future Queen of France at two separate times - France (1442/48)
In the year 1394, King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France (Sep 17), and the Allgäuer Brauhaus brewery is founded in present-day Germany.
1394-0304 Prince Henry the Navigator* regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discovery/son of King John I - Porto, Portugal (1460/66)
In the year 1395, King Sigismund becomes sole ruler of Hungary (May 17), the Theotokos of Vladimir icon is moved to Moscow, and John Rykener, a transvestite prostitute working in London and Oxford, is arrested for cross-dressing (the only surviving legal records from this age which mention same-sex intercourse).
1395-0111 Michelle of Valois* Duchess consort of Burgundy - Hôtel Saint-Pol, Paris, France (1422/27)
1395-0329 John Holland* nobleman/military commander during the Hundred Years' War - Dartington, Devonshire, England (1447/52)
In the year 1396, Queen Margaret I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden publishes the Treaty of Kalmar, proposing the personal union of the three kingdoms (Jul 20), the widowed Richard II of England (29) and six-year-old Isabella of Valois are married in Calais, resulting in a temporary peace between England and France (Oct 31),
In the year 1397, Eric of Pomerania is crowned in Kalmar as ruler of the Kalmar Union (Jul 17), the Treaty of Kalmar is signed whereby Sweden, Norway and Denmark are to be ruled by one monarch (Sep 25), the Sretensky Monastery is founded in Moscow, and Gregory of Tatev writes the Book of Questions, a ten-volume encyclopedic work, at the Tatev Monastery in Armenia.
1397-0515 Sejong the Great* the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea - Hanseong, Joseon (1450/52)
1397-0810 Albert II of Germany* King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia - Vienna, Austria (1439/42)
In the year 1398, one of the earliest navigable summit level canals in the world, the Stecknitz Canal, is completed between the rivers Elbe and Trave (Jul), the Teutonic Knights conquer the island of Gotland, and according to fringe theorists, the Scottish explorer Henry I Sinclair reaches North America.
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Updated 5.12.2021
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