1390

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1387 1388 1389 – 1390 – 1391 1392 1393

1390 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1390 (MCCCXC) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 14 – John VII Palaiologos overthrows his grandfather, John V Palaiologos, as Byzantine Emperor.
• April 19 – Robert III succeeds his father, Robert II, as King of Scotland.
• September 17 – John VII Palaiologos seeks refuge with the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I after John V Palaiologos is restored by his son, Manuel, and the Republic of Venice.
• October 9 – Henry III succeeds his father, John I, as King of Castile and León.
• The Ottomans take Philadelphia, the last Byzantine enclave of any significance in Anatolia.
• With the help of the Teutonic Knights, Vytautas begins a revolt against his cousin, Jogaila the Supreme Prince of Lithuania.
• The Earl of Derby (the future King Henry IV of England) supports the Teutonic Knights at the siege of Vilnius.
• Barquq is restored as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt after overthrowing Sultan Hadji II.
• Nasir ud din Muhammad Shah III overthrows his brother, Abu Baker, as Sultan of Delhi.
• Manuel III succeeds his father, Alexios III, as Emperor of Trebizond (now north eastern Turkey).
• Sikandar But-shikan succeeds Sikandar Shah as Sultan of Kashmir.
• Ko Cheng succeeds Che Bong Nga as King of Champa (now eastern Vietnam).
• Mahmud succeeds Sandaki as Mansa of the Mali Empire.
• N'Diklam Sare succeeds Sare N'Dyaye as ruler of the Jolof Empire (now part of Senegal).
• approximate date:
  • The Kingdom of Kaffa is established in present day Ethiopia.
• Templo Mayor, the main temple of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), is built.
• The Candi Surawana Temple is built in the Majapahit Kingdom (now Indonesia).
• Construction begins on San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.

1390 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1390 MCCCXC
Ab urbe condita	2143
Armenian calendar	839 ԹՎ ՊԼԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-454 – -453
Bengali calendar	797
Berber calendar	2340
Buddhist calendar	1934
Burmese calendar	752
Byzantine calendar	6898 – 6899
Chinese calendar	己巳年十二月十五日 (4026/4086-12-15) — to — 庚午年十一月廿五日 (4027/4087-11-25)
Coptic calendar	1106 – 1107
Ethiopian calendar	1382 – 1383
Hebrew calendar	5150 – 5151
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1446 – 1447
- Shaka Samvat	1312 – 1313
- Kali Yuga	4491 – 4492
Holocene calendar	11390
Iranian calendar	768 – 769
Islamic calendar	792 – 793
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3723
Thai solar calendar	1933

Births

• October 3 – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447)
• December 27 – Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
• probable
  • John Dunstaple, English composer (d. 1453)
  • Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman and rebel leader (d. 1436)

Deaths

• April 19 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
• August 14 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
• September 23 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
• October 9 – King John I of Castile (fall from a horse) (b. 1358)
• September – Towtiwil, Prince of Black Ruthenia
• probable – Altichiero, Italian painter (b. 1330)