1394
1394
Calendar year
Year 1394 (1394) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the January 18 calendar.
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Gregorian calendar | 1394 MCCCXCIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2147 |
Armenian calendar | 843 ԹՎ ՊԽԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6144 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1315–1316 |
Bengali calendar | 801 |
Berber calendar | 2344 |
English Regnal year | 17 Ric. 2 – 18 Ric. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 1938 |
Burmese calendar | 756 |
Byzantine calendar | 6902–6903 |
Chinese calendar | 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4091 or 3884 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4092 or 3885 |
Coptic calendar | 1110–1111 |
Discordian calendar | 2560 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1386–1387 |
Hebrew calendar | 5154–5155 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1450–1451 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1315–1316 |
- Kali Yuga | 4494–4495 |
Holocene calendar | 11394 |
Igbo calendar | 394–395 |
Iranian calendar | 772–773 |
Islamic calendar | 796–797 |
Japanese calendar | Meitoku 5 / Ōei 1 (応永元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1308–1309 |
Julian calendar | 1394 MCCCXCIV |
Korean calendar | 3727 |
Minguo calendar | 518 before ROC 民前518年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −74 |
Thai solar calendar | 1936–1937 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 1520 or 1139 or 367 — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 1521 or 1140 or 368 |
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January–December
- February 28 – Richard II of England grants Geoffrey Chaucer 20 pounds a year for life, for his services as a diplomat and Clerk of The King's Works.[1]
- June 11 – The Venetians take over possession of Argos, from Despot Theodore I Palaiologos.[2]
- September 17 – King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.[3]
- September 28 – Antipope Benedict XIII is elected to succeed Antipope Clement VII.[4]
- October 10 – Battle of Karanovasa: Wallachia (now southern Romania) resists an invasion by the Ottomans, and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.[5]
- November 29 – The capital city of the Joseon dynasty (in present-day Korea) is moved from Gaegyeong (now Gaeseong) to Hanseong (now Seoul).
- December 6 – The astronomical clock of St. Nicholas Church in Stralsund is finished and signed by Nikolaus Lilienfeld.
Date unknown
- The Ottomans conquer Thessaly (now eastern Greece) and begin an eight-year siege of Constantinople, in the Byzantine Empire. In the same year, they begin building the Anadoluhisarı fortress to defend themselves during the siege.[6]
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu retires as shōgun of Japan, and is succeeded by his son, Ashikaga Yoshimochi.
- Gyeongbokgung Palace and the Jongmyo royal ancestral shrine are built in Hanseong (now Seoul).
- After the death of Sultan Mahmud II, civil war breaks out in the Delhi Sultanate, splitting the state between east and west.
- Battle of Ros-Mhic-Thriúin: The Kingdom of Leinster, led by King Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, defeats an invading army from England, led by King Richard II of England and Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March.
- Ştefan I succeeds Roman I, as Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova and eastern Romania).
- Abu Zayyan II succeeds his brother, Abul Hadjdjadj I, as ruler of the Abdalwadid dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.[7]
- Abd al-Aziz II succeeds Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II, as ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in present-day Tunisia.[8]
- The Allgäuer Brauhaus brewery is founded in present-day Germany.[9]
- The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty in China orders the Ministry of Public Works to issue a public notice, that every 100 households in the lijia system are to set aside 2 mu (1,390 m2) of land, for planting mulberry and jujube trees.
- March 4 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d. 1460)[10]
- June 4 – Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430)[11]
- July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (d. 1441)
- July 25 – James I of Scotland (d. 1437)[12]
- November 24 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)[13]
- date unknown
- probable – Cymburgis of Masovia, Duchess of Austria
- June 25 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess (b. 1347)[15]
- March 17 – Louis, Count of Enghien, Count of Conversano and Brienne
- March 24 – Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile
- June 4 – Mary de Bohun, English countess, married to Henry IV of England[16]
- June 7 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1366)[17]
- August 27 – Emperor Chōkei of Japan (b. 1343)
- September 16 – Antipope Clement VII (b. 1342)[18]
- December 28 – Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, basilissa of Epirus (b. 1350)
- date unknown
- John Hawkwood, English mercenary (b. 1320)
- Fazlallah Astarabadi, Persian founder of the mystical Hurufism sect (executed)
- Sultan Mahmud II of the Delhi Sultanate
- Former King Gongyang of Goryeo (b. 1345)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1866). The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Bell and Daldy. pp. 37.
- Manuel II Palaeologus (Emperor of the East) (1985). Manuel II Palaeologus: Funeral Oration on His Brother Theodore. Association for Byzantine Research. p. 19.
- Zosa Szajkowski; Soza Szajkowski (1970). Jews and the French Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. pp. 220. ISBN 978-0-87068-000-7.
- Sir Frederick Dixon HARTLAND (1854). A chronological dictionary or index to the genealogical chart, etc. p. 14.
- Vladislav Boskovic (July 3, 2009). Some Notes on Marko Kraljevic (Prince Marko). GRIN Verlag. p. 3. ISBN 978-3-640-36481-7.
- John Cleave (2008). Istanbul: City of Two Continents. Editions Didier Millet. p. 10. ISBN 978-981-4217-52-1.
- Anuario de estudios medievales. Instituto de Historia Medieval de España. 1990. p. 157.
- Fossier, Robert; Jacques Verger; Robert Mantran; Catherine Asdracha; Charles de La Roncière (1987). Storia del medioevo III: Il tempo delle crisi (1250–1520). Giulio Einaudi editore. p. 368. ISBN 88-06-58404-9.
- Richard Henry Major (1877). The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator, and Their Results; Being the Narrative of the Discovery by Sea, Within One Century, of More Than Half the World. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. pp. 20.
- Panton, James (2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy. Scarecrow Press. p. 370. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8.
- Gordon Donaldson; Robert S. Morpeth (1973). Who's who in Scottish history. Blackwell. p. 33. ISBN 9780631147008.
- Henry Ansgar Kelly (1986). Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine. BRILL. p. 146. ISBN 90-04-07849-5.
- Great Britain. Court of Chancery (1918). Inquisitions Post Mortem Relating to Yorkshire: Of the Reigns of Henry IV and Henry V. Society. p. 112.
- André Vauchez; Michael Lapidge (2000). Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages: A-J. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Incorporated. p. 448. ISBN 9781579582821.
- Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. Douglas Richardson. p. 352. ISBN 978-1-4610-4513-7.
- Andrew, M. (2016). The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer. Springer. p. 11. ISBN 9780230273962.
- "Clement (VII) | antipope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 18, 2019.