1396

Year '1396' was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1396

Births

Deaths

Events of 1396

★ May 19 - Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon (now north-east Spain).

★ September 25 - Battle of Nicopolis: The Ottomans defeat a joint crusade by Hungary, France, the Holy Roman Empire, England and Wallacia, led by King Sigismund of Hungary. This was last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages.

★ November 24 - Transit of Venus - the last not to be part of a pair. Possibly observed by Aztec astronomers.

★ November 29 - Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, marries Joan Beaufort

★ Temporary peace is declared between England and France with the marriage of Richard II of England and Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.

★ France conquers the Republic of Genoa.

★ After a fourteen year period of interregnum, Peter of Saint Superan is declared as ruler of the Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece).

★ In the "Battle of the Thirty", a mass trial by combat, the Clan Cameron defeat the Clan MacKintosh on the North Inch of Perth, Scotland.

★ Queen Margaret of Norway, Denmark and Sweden makes her adopted son Eric of Pomerania joint ruler of Sweden. Eric had already been made joint ruler of Norway.

★ Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.

★ Timur appoints his son Miran Shah as Timurid viceroy of Azerbaijan.

★ The Kartid Dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah, son of Timur Lenk.

★ Philibert de Naillac succeeds Juan Fernández de Heredia as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.

★ The Ulu Camii mosque is built in Bursa by the Ottomans.

Births

★ July 31 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (died 1467)

★ October 16 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (died 1450)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Alfonso V of Aragon (died 1458)

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★ John de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros (died 1421)

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★ Ambroise de Loré, baron of Ivry in Normandy (died 1446)

Deaths

★ July 31 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury

★ November 29 - Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme (born 1373)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (born 1361)

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★ Frederick II, margrave of Saluzzo

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★ Saint Stephen of Perm (born 1340)