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1390s
Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades: 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s
Years: 1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399
Events and Trends
- Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General Yi Seonggye led a coup d'état, overthrowing the kingdom of Goryeo and founding the kingdom of Joseon
- End of the reign of Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan
1394 Expulsion of Jews from France 1395 End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family
- Richard Whittington aka Dick Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London
- John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset
- Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed
- Construction of the Stecknitz Canal as one of the oldest artificial waterways of the world
- Timur arrived on the bank of the Indus River, and proceeded to sack Delhi
1399 Henry IV becomes King of England
Births
1390 future Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus
- King Duarte of Portugal (†1438)
- Gedun Drub, the first Dalai Lama
1393 John Capgrave, Augustinian theologian
- Prince Henry the Navigator, explorer (+ 1460).
- Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer.
- King Sejong the Great of Joseon, the humane scientist ruler of Korea
- August 10 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Deaths
1393 Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan, fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
1397 * Thomas of Woodstock (son of King Edward III of England)
- Emperor Suko of Japan, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.
- Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty.
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