Explore 40 historical events from 1390–1399.
Chŏng Mongju, also known by his art name P'oŭn (포은), was a Korean statesman, diplomat, philosopher, poet, calligrapher and reformist of the Goryeo period. He was a major figure of …
Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (born 1338)
Robert II was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce, he was named R…
Robert II, king of Scotland (born 1316)
Wallachia is a geographical region of modern-day Romania, as well as one of the two historical Romanian principalities that laid the foundation for the establishment of the modern …
An outnumbered Wallachian army repulsed invading Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rovine
The Battle of Rovine took place on 17 May 1395. The Wallachian army led by Voivod Mircea the Elder opposed the Ottoman invasion personally led by Sultan Bayezid I the Thunderbolt. …
Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army
Sejong, commonly known as Sejong the Great, was the fourth monarch of the Koreanic state Joseon. He ruled from 1418 to his death in 1450. He is widely regarded as the greatest king…
Sejong the Great, Korean king of Joseon (died 1450)
Konstantin (Kostadin) Dejanović or Konstantin Dragaš was a Serbian magnate that ruled a large province in eastern Macedonia under Ottoman suzerainty, during the fall of the Serbian…
Konstantin Dejanović/Constantine Dragaš, Serbian ruler (born 1355)
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent was an English nobleman and a councillor of his half-brother, King Richard II of England.
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, English nobleman
John I, called by posterity the Hunter or the Lover of Elegance, or the Abandoned in his lifetime, was the King of Aragon from 1387 until his death.
John I of Aragon (born 1350)
William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, 4th Baron Montagu, King of Mann, KG was an English nobleman and commander in the English army during King Edward III's French campaigns in t…
William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (born 1328)
Philippa of England, also known as Philippa of Lancaster, was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1406 to 1430 by marriage to King Eric of the Kalmar Union. She was the daught…
Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (died 1430)
John of Orléans, Count of Angoulême and Périgord, was the younger son of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, and Valentina Visconti, and grandson of Charles V of France. He was the younger b…
John, Count of Angoulême (died 1467)
Jadwiga, also known as Hedwig, was Queen of the Kingdom of Poland, as well as its last hereditary ruler. Crowned "King", to highlight her sovereign status, she reigned from 16 Octo…
Jadwiga, queen of Poland (born 1374)
Dmitry of Bryansk or Dmitry the Elder was the Lithuanian prince of Bryansk from 1356 to 1379 and from 1388 to 1399. Dmitry was the second eldest son of Algirdas, the grand duke of …
Demetrius I Starshy, Prince of Trubczewsk (in battle) (born 1327)
Ide Pedersdatter Falk, was a powerful Danish noble landholder and the founder of a convent.
Ide Pedersdatter Falk, Danish noblewoman (born 1358)
Mikhail Alexandrovich was Grand Prince of Tver and briefly held the title of Grand Prince of Vladimir. He was one of only two Tver princes after 1317 to hold the grand princely tit…
Mikhail II, Grand Prince of Tver (born 1333)
Peter Parler was a German-Bohemian architect and sculptor from the Parler family of master builders. Along with his father, Heinrich Parler, he is one of the most prominent and inf…
Peter Parler, German architect, designed St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge (born 1330)
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the …
Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne to the Ming dynasty to become the Jianwen Emperor
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. Th…
The Battle of Kellistown was fought on this day between the forces of the English led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of…
John II, called the Great or the Faithless, was King of Aragon from 1458 until his death in 1479. As the husband of Queen Blanche I of Navarre, he was King of Navarre from 1425 to …
John II of Aragon and Navarre (died 1479)
Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Santillana was a Castilian politician and poet who held an important position in society and literature during the reign of John II of Casti…
Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet and politician (died 1458)
The Hongwu Emperor, personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1368 to 1398.
Hongwu, Chinese emperor (born 1328)
Roger de Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, 6th Earl of Ulster was a great-grandson of King Edward III, descended from his second surviving son Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, and w…
Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, Welsh nobleman (born 1374)
The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, it joined under a single monarch the t…
The Kalmar Union is formed under the rule of Margaret I of Denmark
Sejong, commonly known as Sejong the Great, was the fourth monarch of the Koreanic state Joseon. He ruled from 1418 to his death in 1450. He is widely regarded as the greatest king…
Sejong the Great, Korean king of Joseon (died 1450)
Guillaume Du Fay was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered the leading European composer of h…
Guillaume Du Fay, Belgian-Italian composer and theorist (died 1474)
Albert II, King of the Romans, was a member of the House of Habsburg. By inheritance he became Albert V, Duke of Austria. Through his wife Elizabeth of Luxembourg, he also became K…
Albert II of Germany (died 1439)
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent was an English nobleman and a councillor of his half-brother, King Richard II of England.
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, English nobleman
William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, 4th Baron Montagu, King of Mann, KG was an English nobleman and commander in the English army during King Edward III's French campaigns in t…
William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (born 1328)
Philip of Artois, sometimes Philip I, son of John of Artois, Count of Eu, and Isabeau of Melun, was Count of Eu from 1387 until his death, succeeding his brother Robert.
Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (born 1358)
Catherine of Henneberg was a Countess of Henneberg by birth and, from 1347, Margravine of Meissen and Landgravine of Thuringia by marriage. She was the wife of Frederick the Severe…
Catherine of Henneberg, German ruler (born c. 1334)
The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, it joined under a single monarch the t…
The kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania
Philip III, also known as Philip the Good, was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death in 1467. He was a member of a cadet line of the House of Valois, to which all 15th-century…
Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (died 1467)
John I, called by posterity the Hunter or the Lover of Elegance, or the Abandoned in his lifetime, was the King of Aragon from 1387 until his death.
John I of Aragon (born 1350)
William Courtenay was Archbishop of Canterbury (1381–1396), having previously been Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London.
William Courtenay, English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (born 1342)