1396
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| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s |
| Years: | 1393 1394 1395 - 1396 - 1397 1398 1399 |
| 1396 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1396 MCCCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2149 |
| Armenian calendar | 845 ԹՎ ՊԽԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -448 – -447 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1940 |
| Chinese calendar | 4032/4092-11-20 (乙亥年十一月二十日) — to —
4033/4093-12-1(丙子年十二月初一日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1112 – 1113 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1388 – 1389 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5156 – 5157 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1451 – 1452 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1318 – 1319 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4497 – 4498 |
| Holocene calendar | 11396 |
| Iranian calendar | 774 – 775 |
| Islamic calendar | 798 – 799 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 3 (応永3年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2056 (皇紀2056年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11396 |
| Julian calendar | 1441 |
| Korean calendar | 3729 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1939 |
Year 1396 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- May 19 - Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon (now north-east Spain).
- September 25 - Battle of Nicopolis: The Ottomans defeat a joint crusade by Hungary, France, the Holy Roman Empire, England and Wallacia, led by King Sigismund of Hungary. This was last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages.
- November 29 - Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, marries Joan Beaufort
- Temporary peace is declared between England and France with the marriage of Richard II of England and Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.
- France conquers the Republic of Genoa.
- After a fourteen year period of interregnum, Peter of Saint Superan is declared as ruler of the Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece).
- In the "Battle of the Thirty", a mass trial by combat, the Clan Cameron defeat the Clan MacKintosh on the North Inch of Perth, Scotland.
- Queen Margaret of Norway, Denmark and Sweden makes her adopted son Eric of Pomerania joint ruler of Sweden. Eric had already been made joint ruler of Norway.
- Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
- Timur appoints his son Miran Shah as Timurid viceroy of Azerbaijan.
- The Kartid Dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah, son of Timur Lenk.
- Philibert de Naillac succeeds Juan Fernández de Heredia as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
- The Ulu Camii mosque is built in Bursa by the Ottomans.
[edit] Births
- July 31 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (died 1467)
- October 16 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (died 1450)
- date unknown
- Alfonso V of Aragon (died 1458)
- John de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros (died 1421)
- Ambroise de Loré, baron of Ivry in Normandy (died 1446)
[edit] Deaths
- July 31 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
- November 29 - Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme (born 1373)
- date unknown
- John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (born 1361)
- Frederick II, margrave of Saluzzo
- Saint Stephen of Perm (born 1340)
