1391
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
Decades: | 1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s |
Years: | 1388 1389 1390 - 1391 - 1392 1393 1394 |
1391 in topic: |
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
Art - Literature - Music - Science |
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1391 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- July 18 - Tokhtamysh-Timur War: Battle of the Kondurcha River - Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present day southeast Russia.
- August 5 - Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. Many Jews leave Barcelona after the following massacres, though a large number remain in the city.
- Manuel II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine Emperor after his father, John V Palaiologos, dies of a nervous breakdown due to his continued humiliation by the Ottoman Empire.
- Yusuf II succeeds Muhammed V as Nasrid Sultan of Granada (now southern Spain).
- Stjepan Dabiša succeeds his uncle, Stefan Tvrtko I, as King of Bosnia.
- Shah Mansur becomes leader of the Timurid occupied Muzaffarid Empire in central Persia.
- A group of Muzaffarids under Zafar Khan Muzaffar establish a new Sultanate at Gujarat in western India.
- Vytautas the Great, claimant to the thrown of Lithuania, forms an alliance with Muscovy.
- Roman I succeeds Petru I as Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova and eastern Romania).
- Konrad von Wallenrode succeeds Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
- Bridget of Sweden is canonized by Pope Boniface IX.
- Ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod sack the Muscovy towns of Zhukotin and Kazan.
- The Chinese invent toilet paper for use by their emperors.
- Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, takes control of the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands.
- The University of Ferrara is founded in present-day Italy.
- Ming government orders 50 million trees planted in Nanjing area.
Gregorian calendar | 1391 MCCCXCI |
Ab urbe condita | 2144 |
Armenian calendar | 840 ԹՎ ՊԽ |
Bahá'í calendar | -453 – -452 |
Berber calendar | 2341 |
Buddhist calendar | 1935 |
Burmese calendar | 753 |
Byzantine calendar | 6899 – 6900 |
Chinese calendar | 庚午年十一月廿六日 (4027/4087-11-26) — to —
辛未年十二月初六日(4028/4088-12-6) |
Coptic calendar | 1107 – 1108 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1383 – 1384 |
Hebrew calendar | 5151 – 5152 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1446 – 1447 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1313 – 1314 |
- Kali Yuga | 4492 – 4493 |
Holocene calendar | 11391 |
Iranian calendar | 769 – 770 |
Islamic calendar | 793 – 794 |
Japanese calendar | |
Korean calendar | 3724 |
Thai solar calendar | 1934 |
[edit] Births
- October 31 - King Edward of Portugal (d. 1438)
- November 6 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
- Gedun Drub, 1st Dalai Lama (d. 1474)
- Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1472)
- Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (d. 1448)
- Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (d. 1415)
[edit] Deaths
- February 16 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1332)
- Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada
- King Stefan Tvrtko I of Bosnia
- November 1 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
- Nicholas Cabasilas, Byzantine mystic and theological writer
- Gaston III of Foix-Béarn - Count of Foix, co-pince of Andorra