1394

This article is about the year 1394. For the number, see 1394 (number). For the computer interface, see IEEE 1394.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1391 1392 1393 – 1394 – 1395 1396 1397

1394 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1394 in poetry

1394 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1394 MCCCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2147
Armenian calendar	843 ԹՎ ՊԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6144
Bengali calendar	801
Berber calendar	2344
English Regnal year	17 Ric. 2 – 18 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1938
Burmese calendar	756
Byzantine calendar	6902–6903
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4090 or 4030     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4091 or 4031
Coptic calendar	1110–1111
Discordian calendar	2560
Ethiopian calendar	1386–1387
Hebrew calendar	5154–5155
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1450–1451
- Shaka Samvat	1316–1317
- Kali Yuga	4495–4496
Holocene calendar	11394
Igbo calendar	394–395
Iranian calendar	772–773
Islamic calendar	796–797
Japanese calendar	Meitoku 5 / Ōei 1 (応永元年)
Julian calendar	1394 MCCCXCIV
Korean calendar	3727
Minguo calendar	518 before ROC 民前518年
Thai solar calendar	1936–1937

Consecration of Benedict XIII.

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

Events

January–December

• June 11 – The Venetians take over possession of Argos from Despot Theodore I Palaiologos.
• September 17 – King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.
• September 28 – Antipope Benedict XIII succeeds Antipope Clement VII.
• October 10 – Battle of Karanovasa – Wallachia (now southern Romania) resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.
• November 29 – The capital city of the Joseon dynasty in present-day Korea is moved from Gaegyeong (now Gaeseong) to Hanseong (now Seoul).

Date unknown

• The Ottomans begin an eight-year siege of Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire.
  • 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.
• 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-Mhic-Thriúin: 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 20 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.
• The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty in China orders the Ministry of Public Works to issue a public notice that every 100 households in the lijia system are to set aside 2 mu (1,390 m²) of land for planting mulberry and jujube trees.

Births

• March 4 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d. 1460)
• July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
• July 25 – James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
• November 24 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
• December 10 – King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
• date unknown
  • Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (d. 1449)
  • Cymburgis of Masovia, Duchess of Austria
  • Ikkyū, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (d. 1481)
  • Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (d. 1415)

Deaths

• March 17 – Louis, Count of Enghien, Count of Conversano and Brienne
• March 24 – Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile
• June 4 – Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England
• June 7 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1366)
• July 24 – Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, Scottish prince (b. 1343)
• August 27 – Former Emperor Chōkei of Japan (b. 1343)
• September 16 – Antipope Clement VII (b. 1342)
• date unknown
  • John de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros (b. 1365)
  • John Hawkwood, English mercenary (b. 1320)
  • Fazlallah Astarabadi, founder of the mystical Hurufism sect (executed)
  • Sultan Mahmud II of the Delhi Sultanate
  • Former King Gongyang of Goryeo (b. 1345)