1390s

[edit] Events and trends

[edit] 1392

• 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.

[edit] 1394

• Expulsion of Jews from France.

[edit] 1395

• End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family.

[edit] 1397

• Richard Whittington aka Dick Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London.
• John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset.

[edit] 1398

• 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.

[edit] 1399

• Henry IV becomes King of England.

[edit] Births

[edit] 1390

• Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus

[edit] 1391

• King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
• Gedun Drub, the first Dalai Lama

[edit] 1393

• John Capgrave, Augustinian theologian

[edit] 1394

• Prince Henry the Navigator, explorer (d. 1460).
• Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer.

[edit] 1396

• Alfonso V of Aragon

[edit] 1397

• King Sejong the Great of Joseon, the humane scientist ruler of Korea
• August 10 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 1393

• Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan, fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

[edit] 1394

• Emperor Chokei of Japan
• Anne of Bohemia

[edit] 1397

• Thomas of Woodstock (son of King Edward III of England)

[edit] 1398

• Emperor Sukō, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.
• Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty.