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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s 1370s 1380s – 1390s – 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1390s decade ran from January 1, 1390, to December 31, 1399. It was the last decade of the 14th century.

Contents 1 Events and trends 1.1 1392 1.2 1394 1.3 1395 1.4 1397 1.5 1398 1.6 1399 2 Births 2.1 1390 2.2 1391 2.3 1393 2.4 1394 2.5 1396 2.6 1397 3 Deaths 3.1 1393 3.2 1394 3.3 1397 3.4 1398

[edit] Events and trends

[edit] 1392

• Korean General Yi Seonggye led a coup d'état, overthrowing the kingdom of Goryeo and founded the Joseon Dynasty.
• End of the reign of Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan.

[edit] 1394

• The Jews were expelled from France.

[edit] 1395

• End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family.

[edit] 1397

• Richard Whittington aka Dick Whittington was elected Lord Mayor of London.
• John Beaufort became Earl of Somerset.

[edit] 1398

• Glendalough monastery, in Wicklow Ireland, was destroyed.
• The Stecknitz Canal was built. It would become one of the oldest artificial waterways of the world.
• Timur arrived on the bank of the Indus River, and proceeded to sack Delhi.

[edit] 1399

• Henry IV became King of England.

[edit] Births

[edit] 1390

• Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus

[edit] 1391

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

[edit] 1393

• John Capgrave, Augustinian theologian

[edit] 1394

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

[edit] 1396

• Alfonso V of Aragon

[edit] 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

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 1393

• Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan, fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders

[edit] 1394

• Emperor Chokei of Japan
• Anne of Bohemia

[edit] 1397

• Thomas of Woodstock (son of King Edward III of England)

[edit] 1398

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