1398

Year 1398 (MCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s
Years:	1395 1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 1401

1398 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1398 MCCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2151
Armenian calendar	847 ԹՎ ՊԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6148
Balinese saka calendar	1319–1320
Bengali calendar	805
Berber calendar	2348
English Regnal year	21 Ric. 2 – 22 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1942
Burmese calendar	760
Byzantine calendar	6906–6907
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4094 or 4034     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4095 or 4035
Coptic calendar	1114–1115
Discordian calendar	2564
Ethiopian calendar	1390–1391
Hebrew calendar	5158–5159
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1454–1455
- Shaka Samvat	1319–1320
- Kali Yuga	4498–4499
Holocene calendar	11398
Igbo calendar	398–399
Iranian calendar	776–777
Islamic calendar	800–801
Japanese calendar	Ōei 5 (応永５年)
Javanese calendar	1312–1313
Julian calendar	1398 MCCCXCVIII
Korean calendar	3731
Minguo calendar	514 before ROC 民前514年
Nanakshahi calendar	−70
Thai solar calendar	1940–1941
Tibetan calendar	阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1524 or 1143 or 371     — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1525 or 1144 or 372

Events

January–December

• March 15 – Trần Thuận Tông is forced to abdicate as ruler of the Trần Dynasty in modern-day Vietnam, in favour of his three-year-old son Trần Thiếu Đế.
• April - May – The Bosnian nobility dethrone Queen Helen and replace her with Stephen Ostoja.
• June 25 – Jianwen succeeds his grandfather, Hongwu, as Emperor of Ming Dynasty China.
• July – The Stecknitz Canal is completed between the rivers Elbe and Trave (at Lübeck) in modern-day north Germany, one of the earliest navigable summit level canals in the world.
• September
  • King Richard II of England exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (the future Henry IV of England) for 10 years, in order to end Henry's feud with Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who is also exiled.[1]
  • As France withdraws its support for Antipope Benedict XIII, an army led by Geoffrey Boucicaut occupies Avignon, and starts a five-year siege of the papal palace.
• October 12 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed by Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Konrad von Jungingen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, in an attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights.
• October 14 – King Taejo of Joseon abdicates the throne of the Joseon dynasty in modern-day Korea following the murder of his heir Yi Bangsuk during a coup by Yi's older half-brother, Yi Bang-won. Taejo's eldest son Jeongjong succeeds to the throne.
• November 11 – Janus succeeds his father, James I, as King of Cyprus and claimant to the throne of Armenian Cilicia.
• December 17 – Timur defeats the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, which has been weakened after four years of civil war. Following his victory, Timur's Islamic troops sack the city of Delhi, and proceed to massacre hundreds of thousands of the state's Hindu inhabitants.

Date unknown

• The Teutonic Knights recommence their raids of Lithuania.
• The Teutonic Knights conquer the island of Gotland, near Sweden, which has previously been run by the piratical Victual Brothers.
• Martin of Aragon launches a crusade against the Moors in North Africa.
• The Kingdom of Singapura falls, after being invaded by the Majapahit Empire.
• Abdullah succeeds Abu Amir as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco.
• Bunei succeeds his father, Satto, as King of Chūzan (modern-day central Okinawa, Japan).
• Glendalough monastery in Wicklow, Ireland is destroyed by English troops.
• Ferapontov Monastery is founded in modern-day north-west Russia by Therapont of Belozersk.
• The Munmyo Confucian shrine and Sungkyunkwan University are founded in modern-day Seoul.
• Mount Grace Priory is established in Yorkshire, England.
• According to fringe theorists, the Scottish explorer Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, reaches North America.

Births

Johannes Gutenberg

• August 19 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
• date unknown
  • Cecília Rozgonyi, Hungarian noble and heroine (d. 1434)
  • Spytek of Melsztyn, Polish nobleman (d. 1439)
  • Moctezuma I, second Aztec emperor (d. 1469)
  • William Waynflete, English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (d. 1486)
  • Johannes Gutenberg, German inventor of the printing press
  • Tlacaélel, Aztec warrior, thinker, high priest and noble for the Mexica Empire (d. 1487)

Deaths

• January 6 – Rupert II, Elector Palatine (b. 1325)
• January 31 – Former Emperor Sukō of Japan (b. 1334)
• June 24 – Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
• July 20 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
• July/August (uncertain) – Kadi Burhan al-Din, poet, kadi, and ruler of Sivas (b. 1345)[2]
• September 9 – James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
• October 5 – Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France (b. 1333)
• date unknown – Jeong Dojeon, Korean philosopher

References

1. BBC History - Historic Figures - King Richard II. Accessed 1 May 2013
2. Rypka, J. (1960). "Burhãn al-Dīn". In Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 1327–1328. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_1543. OCLC 495469456.