1390s

1392

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• Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General Yi Seonggye led a coup d'?tat, 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

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1395 End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family

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1397

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

1398

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• 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

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Births

1390 future Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus

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1391

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

1393 John Capgrave, Augustinian theologian

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1394

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

1396 Alfonso V of Aragon

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1397

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• 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

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1394

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• Emperor Chokei of Japan
• Anne of Bohemia

1397 * Thomas of Woodstock (son of King Edward III of England)

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1398

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

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