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Year '1391' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

★ July 18 - Tokhtamysh-Timur War: Battle of the Kondurcha River - Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present day southeast Russia.

★ Manuel II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine Emperor after his father, John V Palaiologos, dies of a nervous breakdown due to his continued humiliation by the Ottoman Empire.

★ Yusuf II succeeds Muhammed V as Nasrid Sultan of Granada (now southern Spain).

★ Stjepan Dabiša succeeds his uncle, Stefan Tvrtko I, as King of Bosnia.

★ Shah Mansur becomes leader of the Timurid occupied Muzaffarid Empire in central Persia.

★ A group of Muzaffarids under Zafar Khan Muzaffar establish a new Sultanate at Gujarat in western India.

★ August 5 - Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. Many Jews leave Barcelona after the following massacres, though a large number remain in the city.

★ Vytautas the Great, claimant to the thrown of Lithuania, forms an alliance with Muscovy.

★ Roman I succeeds Petru I as Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova and eastern Romania).

★ Konrad von Wallenrode succeeds Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.

★ Bridget of Sweden is canonized by Pope Boniface IX.

★ Ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod sack the Muscovy towns of Zhukotin and Kazan.

★ The Chinese invent toilet paper for use by their Emperors.

★ Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, takes control of the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands.

★ University of Ferrara is founded in present-day Italy.

Births

★ October 31 - King Edward of Portugal (†1438)

★ November 6 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (died 1425)

★ Gedun Drub, 1st Dalai Lama (died 1474)

★ Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (died 1472)

★ Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (died 1448)

★ Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (died 1415)

Deaths

★ February 16 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (born 1332)

★ Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada

★ King Stefan Tvrtko I of Bosnia.

★ November 1 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (born 1360)

★ Nicholas Cabasilas, Byzantine mystic and theological writer