1396

September 25: The Ottoman Empire defeats the Christian Crusaders at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1396 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1396
MCCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita2149
Armenian calendar845
ԹՎ ՊԽԵ
Assyrian calendar6146
Balinese saka calendar1317–1318
Bengali calendar802–803
Berber calendar2346
English Regnal year19 Ric. 2 – 20 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar1940
Burmese calendar758
Byzantine calendar6904–6905
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4093 or 3886
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4094 or 3887
Coptic calendar1112–1113
Discordian calendar2562
Ethiopian calendar1388–1389
Hebrew calendar5156–5157
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1452–1453
 - Shaka Samvat1317–1318
 - Kali Yuga4496–4497
Holocene calendar11396
Igbo calendar396–397
Iranian calendar774–775
Islamic calendar798–799
Japanese calendarŌei 3
(応永3年)
Javanese calendar1310–1311
Julian calendar1396
MCCCXCVI
Korean calendar3729
Minguo calendar516 before ROC
民前516年
Nanakshahi calendar−72
Thai solar calendar1938–1939
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Boar)
1522 or 1141 or 369
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Rat)
1523 or 1142 or 370

Year 1396 (MCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

  • January 4 – Irene Shpata, daughter of Gjin Bua Shpata, becomes the new Ottoman Despotess of Ioannina when she marries the despot Esau de' Buondelmonti of Epirus.[1]
  • February 4 – (24 Rabi II 798 AH) Hasan ibn Ajlan becomes the Emir of Mecca as his brother Muhammad ibn Ajlan steps aside.[2]
  • March 9 – King Richard II of England, 29, marries Princess Isabelle of France, the 6-year-old daughter of King Charles VI of France, by proxy.[3] The two will marry in person on October 31 in Calais.
  • March 28 – A War Council in Buda, led by King Sigismund of Hungary is held with representatives of various Christian nations to begin the Nicopolis Crusade against the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire for the liberation of Bulgaria.[4]

April–June

July–September

October–December

King Richard and his six-year-old bride
  • October 31 – The widowed Richard II of England (29), and six-year-old Isabella of Valois (daughter of Charles VI of France), are married in Calais, resulting in a temporary peace between the kingdoms of England and France.[13]
  • October – A Transylvanian expedition captures Vlad I Uzurpatorul, thus allowing the restoration of Mircea the Elder of Wallachia to the throne.[14]
  • November 24 – The Transit of Venus, the last not to be part of a pair, is possibly observed by Aztec astronomers.[15]
  • November 27 – Antoniotto I Adorno, Doge of the Republic of Genoa, voluntarily steps down and turns control of the republic over to France's King Charles VI. King Charles then appoints Adorno as the governor of French-ruled Genoa.[16]
  • November 29 – Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, marries Joan Beaufort in England.[17]
  • November 30 – King Richard II summons the members of the English House of Lords and the House of Commons to open the English Parliament on January 22.
  • December 30 – Waleran III of Luxembourg, becomes the French Governor of the former Republic of Genoa.[18]

Date unknown

  • The Ottomans capture the Bulgarian fortress of Vidin and Tsar Ivan Sratsimir, ending the Second Bulgarian Empire.[19] The Bulgarian state is reestablished in 1878 as the Principality of Bulgaria.[20]
  • France conquers the Republic of Genoa.[21]
  • After a 14-year interregnum, Pedro de San Superano is declared ruler of the Principality of Achaea (modern-day Peloponnese, southern Greece).[22]
  • Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty, in modern-day Morocco.[23]
  • Timur appoints his son Miran Shah, as Timurid viceroy of present-day Azerbaijan.[24]
  • The Kart dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah.[25]
  • Philibert de Naillac succeeds Juan Fernández de Heredia, as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.[26]
  • Huitzilihuitl succeeds his father, Acamapichtli, as ruler of the Aztecs.[27]
  • The Ulu Camii Mosque is built in Bursa by the Ottomans.
  • The Ming dynasty court of China sends two envoys, Qian Guxun and Li Sicong, to the Ava Kingdom of Burma and the Tai polity of the Mong Mao, in order to resolve a dispute between these two. The travels of the Chinese ambassadors are recorded in the historical text of the Baiyi Zhuan.[28]
  • Timur orders the construction of a garden in a meadow, House of Flowers.[29]
  • Peasants in the modern-day provinces of Hunan and Hubei in the east of China plant 84 million fruit trees.
  • The University of Zadar is founded, the first university in Croatia.[30]

Births

  • July 31 – Philip theGood, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
  • October 16 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English noble (d. 1450)
  • date unknown
    • Alfonso V of Aragon (d. 1458)
    • Bonne of Artois, countess regent of Nevers (d. 1425)
    • Ambroise de Loré, baron of Ivry in Normandy (d. 1446)
    • Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1472)
    • Ponhea Yat, ruler of the Khmer Empire (d. 1460?)

Deaths

  • January 11 – Isidore Glabas, Metropolitan bishop of Thessalonica (b. 1341/2)
  • May 19 – John I of Aragon (b. 1350)
  • July 31 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • September 15 – Queen Sindeok, politically active Korean queen (b. 1356)
  • November 29 – Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme (b. 1373)
  • date unknown
    • John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (b. 1361)
    • Frederick II, Marquess of Saluzzo
    • Maddalena Buonsignori, Italian law professor at the University of Bologna
    • Saint Stephen of Perm (b. 1340)
    • She Xiang, Chinese tribute chieftain (b. 1361)

References

  1. ↑ Nicol, Donald M. (1984). The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479 A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-5212-6190-6.
  2. ↑ ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāzī, et al., Ifādat al-anām إفادة الأنام (in Arabic). Vol. 3 (1st ed.). (Mecca: Maktabat al-Asadī, 2009) pp. 247–248
  3. ↑ Kelly, Amy Eloise (2022-10-19). "Isabella of Valois - The child bride of King Richard II". History of Royal Women. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
  4. 1 2 3 Tuchman, Barbara W. (1978). A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 548–555. ISBN 0-345-28394-5.
  5. ↑ Bisson, Thomas N. (1986). The Medieval Crown of Aragon: A Short History. Clarendon Press, p. 125.
  6. 1 2 White, Richard (2010), These Stones Bear Witness, AuthorHouse, p. 56.
  7. ↑ Brouwers, J.H.; Klama, J.J.; Kok, W.; Wiegersma, M (1958). Encyclopedie van Friesland. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 394 – via GoogleBooks.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  8. ↑ Knecht, Robert (2004). The Valois: Kings of France 1328–1589. Hambledon Continuum, p. 6-7.
  9. ↑ Nicolle, David (1999). Nicopolis 1396: The Last Crusade. Campaign Series. London: Osprey Publishing.
  10. ↑ "Battle of Nicopolis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  11. ↑ "Site Record for Perth, North Inch; 'The Battle Of The Clans'; Inch Of Perth". canmore.rcahms.gov.uk. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  12. ↑ Collinson, Francis M. (1975). The Bagpipe: The History of a Musical Instrument. London: Routledge. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-7100-7913-8.
  13. ↑ Williams, Deanne (2016). "Isabelle de France, Child Bride". In Martin, Catherine Gimelli; Melehy, Hassan (eds.). French Connections in the English Renaissance. Routledge, p. 32-33.
  14. ↑ N. Djuvara, O scurtă istorie ilustrată a Românilor. Ed. Humanitas, București, 2013, p. 119.
  15. ↑ SampleContents library, Transit of Venus.w[https://samplecontents.library.ph/wikipedia/wp/t/Transit_of_Venus.htm Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  16. ↑ Oreste, Giuseppe (1960). "Dizionario biografico degli Italiano".
  17. ↑ Weir, Alison (1999). Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy. London: The Bodley Head, p. 108.
  18. ↑ Taylor, Craig (2019). A Virtuous Knight: Defending Marshal Boucicaut (Jean II Le Meingre, 1366-1421). York Medieval Press. p. 30.
  19. ↑ Science historian chronicles true story of Lady Florence Baker, Penn State University, 3 February 2004, Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  20. ↑ Miller-Yianni, Martin (20 May 2010). Bulgarian History — A Concise Account. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781445716336. Retrieved 28 January 2025 – via Google Books.
  21. ↑ Kirk, Thomas Allison (2005). Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 26. ISBN 0-8018-8083-1. Archived from the original on 11 February 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  22. ↑ Miller, William (1908). The Latins in the Levant: A History of Frankish Greece (1204–1556). E. P Dutton and Company. OCLC 1106830090. p. 317–318, 368, 651.
  23. ↑ Ilahiane, Hsain (2006-07-17). Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6490-0, p. 156.
  24. ↑ Barthold, Vasilii Vladimirovitch (1963). Four Studies on the History of Central Asia. Vol. 2. Brill Archive. p. 33.
  25. ↑ Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich Bartolʹd, Four Studies on the History of Central Asia, Vol.II, (Brill, 1958), 33.
  26. ↑ Whitworth Porter (31 October 2013). A History of the Knights of Malta. Cambridge University Press. p. 291. ISBN 978-1-108-06622-8.
  27. ↑ Simon, Z (2021). "Ten Chronologies of Ancient Mexico"
  28. ↑ Wade, Geoff (1996) "The Bai Yi Zhuan: A Chinese Account of Tai Society in the 14th Century," 14th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. (Includes translation of (Jiangliang, 1980) at ChulalongkornCentral Library)[1]
  29. ↑ HISTORY OF SAMARKAND GARDENS BUILT BY AMIR TEMUR. Kamoliddin G’aniev, Samarkand State University, Associate Professor of History of Uzbekistan. Article history: Abstract: Received: 2th April 2021 In the article on the basis of sources landscape gardening. https://scholarzest.com/index.php/esj/article/download/726/615/1477. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
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