January–March •
January 4 – The
Epiphany Rising begins in
England against
King Henry IV by nobles planning to restore
King Richard II to the throne, and is quickly crushed.
Baron Lumley dies after attempting to seize
Cirencester. The
Earl of Salisbury and the
Earl of Kent are captured and beheaded on January 7.
Sir Thomas Blount is hanged, drawn and quartered at
Oxford on January 12.
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester is captured and executed by a mob in
Bristol on January 13. The
Earl of Huntingdon is beheaded at
Pleshey on January 16. •
February 14 – The deposed
Richard II of England dies by means unknown in
Pontefract Castle. It is likely that King
Henry IV ordered his death by starvation, to prevent further uprisings. •
February –
Henry Percy (Hotspur) leads English incursions into
Scotland. •
March 23 – Five-year-old
Trần Thiếu Đế is forced to abdicate as ruler of
Đại Việt (modern-day
Vietnam), in favour of his maternal grandfather and court official
Hồ Quý Ly, ending the
Trần dynasty after 175 years and starting the
Hồ dynasty. Hồ Quý Ly subsequently changes the country's name to Đại Ngu.
April–June •
April 21 – Sir
Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, resigns as
England's
Admiral of the North and West to join the resistance against
King Henry IV. The office will remain vacant for more than six years. Percy will be beheaded in 1403 after his defeat in the
Battle of Shrewsbury. •
April 23 – In what is now
Romania,
Alexandru cel Bun (Alexander the Good) is installed as the new
Prince (Voivode) of
Moldavia by
Mircea the Elder, the Voivode of
Wallachia, after Mircea removes the reigning monarch,
Prince Iuga. •
April 25 –
Jingnan campaign: In the
Shandong province of Ming dynasty China,
Zhu Di, Prince of Yan, defeats the Imperial forces of General
Li Jinglong in the two-day Battle of Baigou River, by taking advantage of the chaos that results when a gust of wind breaks the staff of General Li's flag of battle. The Yan forces capture 100,000 of the Imperial soldiers as prisoners and Li and the others retreat to
Jinan. •
April – King
Swa Saw Ke, of
Ava, the largest kingdom in Burma, dies after a reign of 33 years and is succeeded by his son,
King Tarabya, who reigns less than seven months before being assassinated. •
May 22 – Meeting in
Frankfurt, three of the prince-electors of the
Holy Roman Empire (
Rupert, elector of the Palatinate,
Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, elector of Saxony, and
Jobst of Moravia, elector of Brandenburg) meet in
an attempt to replace the Emperor,
Wenceslaus, King of the Romans because of his failure to stamp out civil unrest or to resolve the Western Schism. They select
Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg as the replacement for Wenceslaus. •
June 5 – Duke Frederick I of Brunswick-Lüneburg is assassinated after being identified as a rival to Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor. Frederick, on his way back from a May 22 meeting of the prince-electors, is ambushed by a party of men led by
Count Henry of Waldeck while passing through the village of
Kleinenglis in the
Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont (now part of the German state of
Hesse, near
Borken).
July–September •
July 7 –
Sir John Swinton, an envoy of
King Robert III of Scotland, crosses the border into England along with 20 knights, after being given a
writ of safe conduct by
King Henry IV to allow their travel to negotiate during the standoff between the two British kingdoms between phases of the
Hundred Years' War. •
July 26 –
Jagiellonian University is re-established in
Kraków by order of
King Władysław II, with the creation of the Faculty of Theology at what is then called the Kraków Academy. The restoration is partially financed by the sale of jewelry owned by the King's late wife,
Queen Jadwiga, who had died in
1399. •
August 6 – Writing from
Newcastle upon Tyne to
Scotland's
King Robert III, England's
King Henry IV sends a demand that King Robert meet him "on Monday the 23rd of this present month of August, at
Edinburgh, where, for this reason and for the peace of tranquility of the realms of England and Scotland, we intend to be," for Robert "to perform the obligation which you owe us" as "overlords of Scotland and of its kings in all temporal matters pertaining to them..." King Henry warns that "considering the effusion of Christian blood and other dangers and losses which may occur if you do not comply with our wishes, you will be present to render us homage and take the oath of fealty." •
August 14 – King Henry IV leads the English Army into
Scotland, after receiving no answer from Scotland's King Robert III to his August 6 demand. The troops reach
Haddington, East Lothian the next day and at
Leith, on the outskirts of
Edinburgh, by August 18. As historian
James Hamilton Wylie will note almost 500 years later, "the walls of Edinburgh did not fall before this ram's-horn blast, and August 23rd came and went without the required homage or recognition." •
August 20 – Meeting at the
Lahneck Castle in what is now the German state
Rhineland-Palatinate, the princes of the German states vote to depose the Holy Roman Emperor,
Wenceslaus, due to his weak leadership and mental illnesses. •
August 21 –
Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, is elected as
King of the Romans. •
August 29 – Having failed in his expedition to receive a pledge of
fealty from the King of Scotland, King Henry IV crosses back into England. •
October 29 –
Jingnan campaign: In China, Prince
Zhu Di of Yan expands his conquests with the capture of
Cangzhou in
Heibei province. •
October 30 – (11
Rabi' I 803 AH) Tamerlane begins the
destruction of the Syrian city of
Aleppo overwhelming the
Mamluk Sultanate defenders. •
November 2 – The Mamluk Sultanate surrenders the city of Aleppo and Tamerlane's Army massacres many of the inhabitants. •
November 25 – (9th waxing of Nadaw,
730 ME)
Minkhaung I becomes the new King of Ava, the largest kingdom in what is now northern
Myanmar, after a battle for power that follows the assassination of the erratic
King Tarabya. •
December 21 –
Manuel II Palaiologos becomes the only
Byzantine Emperor ever to visit England, and is greeted at
Blackheath by
King Henry IV, who hosts the Emperor at
Eltham Palace during the Christmas holiday. •
December 25 – In China, the
Jingnan campaign of Prince
Zhu Di of Yan suffers a serious reversal at the Battle of Dongchang as Imperial General Sheng Yong, replacement of
Li Jinglong, encircles the Yan forces. Yan Army General
Zhang Yu is killed, but Zhu Di is able to escape to the northern capital at
Beijing and regroups his forces for a second attack to take place in February.
Date unknown •
Timur defeats both the
Ottoman Empire and the
Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, to capture the city of
Damascus in present-day
Syria. Much of the city's inhabitants are subsequently massacred by Timur's troops. •
Timur conquers the
Empire of The Black Sheep Turkomans, in present-day
Azerbaijan, and the
Jalayirid dynasty in present-day
Iraq. Black Sheep ruler
Qara Yusuf and Jalayirid Sultan
Ahmad flee, and take refuge with the
Ottoman Sultan
Bayezid I. • In modern-day
Korea, King
Jeongjong of Joseon abdicates in fear of an attack by his ambitious younger brother,
Taejong. Taejong succeeds to the throne. • Prince
Parameswara establishes the
Malacca Sultanate, in present-day western
Malaysia and northern
Sumatra. • Hananchi succeeds Min as King of
Hokuzan, in modern-day north
Okinawa,
Japan. •
Wallachia (modern-day southern
Romania) resists an invasion by the
Ottomans. • A Wallachian army captures
Iuga, and makes
Alexandru cel Bun the Prince of
Moldavia. • The
Kingdom of Kongo begins. • The
Haast's eagle and
Moa are both driven to extinction by
Māori hunters. • The
Mississippian culture starts to decline. • Europe is reported to have around 52 million inhabitants. • The
House of Medici becomes powerful in
Florence. •
Newcastle upon Tyne is created a
county corporate, by
Henry IV of England. •
Jean Froissart completes his
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