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Year '1394' was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1394

Births

Deaths

Events of 1394

★ September 17 - King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.

★ September 28 - Anti-Pope Benedict XIII succeeds Anti-Pope Clement VII.

★ Battle of Karanovasa - Wallachia (now southern Romania) resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.


★ The Ottomans begin an eight-year siege of Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire.

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★ The Anadoluhisarı fortress is built by the Ottomans to defend themselves during the siege.

★ Ashikaga Yoshimitsu retires as shogun of Japan and is succeeded by his son, Ashikaga Yoshimochi.

★ The capital city of the Joseon Dynasty in present-day Korea is moved from Gaegyeong (now Gaeseong) to Hanseong (now Seoul).

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★ Gyeongbokgung Palace and the Jongmyo royal ancestral shrine are built in Hanseong (now Seoul).

★ After the death of Sultan Mahmud II, civil war breaks out in the Delhi Sultanate, splitting the state between east and west.

★ Battle of Ros-mic-Triuin - the Kingdom of Leinster, led by King Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, defeats an invading army from England, led by King Richard II of England and Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March.

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

★ Abu Zayyan II succeeds his brother, Abul Hadjdjadj I, as ruler of the Abdalwadid dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.

★ Yûsuf I succeeds Abd ar-Rahmân II as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty in present-day western Algeria.

★ The Ottomans conquer Thessaly (now eastern Greece).

★ Abd al-Aziz II succeeds Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II as ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in present-day Tunisia.

★ Richard II of England grants Geoffrey Chaucer twenty pounds a year for life for his services as a diplomat and Clerk of The King's Works.

★ The Allgäuer Brauhaus brewery is founded in present-day Germany.

Births

★ March 4 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (died 1460)

★ July 12 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (died 1441)

★ November 24 - Charles, duc d'Orléans, French poet (died 1465)

★ December 10 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)

★ Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (died 1449)

★ Cymburgis of Masovia, Duchess of Austria

★ Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (died 1481)

★ Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (died 1415)

Deaths

★ June 4 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England

★ June 7 - Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (plague) (born 1366)

★ July 24 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, Scottish prince (born 1343)

★ August 27 - Emperor Chokei of Japan, former Emperor (born 1343)

★ September 16 - Avignon Pope Clement VII (born 1342)

★ John de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros (born 1365)

★ John Devereux 2nd Baron Devereux

★ Louis of Enghien, Count of Conversano and Brienne

★ John Hawkwood, English mercenary (born 1320)

★ Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile

★ Fazlallah Astarabadi, founder of the mystical Hurufism sect (executed)

★ Sultan Mahmud II of Delhi

★ Former King Gongyang of Goryeo (born 1345)