1390s

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'etat, overthrowing the kingdom of Goryeo and founding the kingdom of Joseon
• End of the reign of Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan

1397

• 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.

Births

1391

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

1394

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

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

Deaths

1394

• Emperor Chokei of Japan
• Anne of Bohemia

1398

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

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