1398

Year 1398 (MCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events of the Year 1398

The year 1398 (MCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

January–December

  • March 15 – Trần Thuận Tông is forced to abdicate as ruler of the Trần dynasty in modern-day Vietnam, in favor of his three-year-old son Trần Thiếu Đế.
  • April–May – The Bosnian nobility dethrone Queen Helen and replace her with Stephen Ostoja.
  • June 25 – Jianwen succeeds his grandfather, Hongwu, as Emperor of the Ming dynasty in China.
  • July – The Stecknitz Canal is completed between the rivers Elbe and Trave (at Lübeck) in modern-day north Germany, marking one of the earliest navigable summit-level canals in the world.
  • September – King Richard II of England exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (the future Henry IV of England) for 10 years, to resolve a feud with Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who is also exiled.
  • As France withdraws support for Antipope Benedict XIII, an army led by Geoffrey Boucicaut occupies Avignon and starts a five-year siege of the papal palace.
  • October 12 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed by Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Konrad von Jungingen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, ceding Samogitia to the Knights.
  • October 14 – King Taejo of Joseon abdicates following the murder of his heir Yi Bangsuk during a coup led by Yi Bang-won. Jeongjong, Taejo’s eldest son, succeeds to the throne.
  • November 11 – Janus succeeds his father, James I, as King of Cyprus and claimant to the throne of Armenian Cilicia.
  • December 17 – Timur defeats the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, after a four-year civil war. His troops sack Delhi and massacre hundreds of thousands of Hindu inhabitants.

Date Unknown

  • The Teutonic Knights recommence their raids of Lithuania.
  • The Teutonic Knights conquer the island of Gotland, near Sweden.
  • Martin of Aragon launches a crusade against the Moors in North Africa.
  • The Kingdom of Singapura falls to invasion by the Majapahit Empire.
  • Abdullah succeeds Abu Amir as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco.
  • Bunei succeeds his father, Satto, as King of Chūzan (modern-day central Okinawa, Japan).
  • Glendalough monastery in Wicklow, Ireland is destroyed by English troops.
  • Ferapontov Monastery is founded in modern-day northwest Russia.
  • The Munmyo Confucian shrine and Sungkyunkwan University are founded in modern-day Seoul.
  • Mount Grace Priory is established in Yorkshire, England.
  • According to fringe theorists, the Scottish explorer Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, reaches North America.

Births

  • August 19 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
  • Date Unknown – Cecília Rozgonyi, Hungarian noble and heroine (d. 1434)
  • Date Unknown – Spytko III of Melsztyn, Polish nobleman (d. 1439)
  • Date Unknown – Moctezuma I, second Aztec emperor (d. 1469)
  • Date Unknown – William Waynflete, English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (d. 1486)
  • Date Unknown – Johannes Gutenberg, German inventor of the printing press
  • Date Unknown – Tlacaélel, Aztec warrior, thinker, high priest, and noble for the Mexica Empire (d. 1487)

Deaths

  • January 6 – Rupert II, Elector Palatine (b. 1325)
  • January 31 – Former Emperor Sukō of Japan (b. 1334)
  • June 24 – Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
  • July 20 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
  • July/August (uncertain) – Kadi Burhan al-Din, poet, kadi, and ruler of Sivas (b. 1345)
  • September 9 – James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
  • October 5 – Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France (b. 1333)
  • Date Unknown – Jeong Dojeon, Korean philosopher