1397

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1394 1395 1396 – 1397 – 1398 1399 1400

1397 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1397 (MCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• February 10 – John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset.
• July 20 – Queen Margaret forms the Kalmar Union, uniting the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland and Greenland) and Sweden (including Finland).
• September 29 – John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother Richard II of England.
• The Ottomans capture the Vidin Empire, the only remaining independent Bulgarian state. Emperor Ivan Sratsimir of Vidin is taken prisoner and later disappears.
  • Constantine II becomes Emperor of Vidin after his father's imprisonment.
• Richard II of England attempts to reassert authority over his kingdom by arresting members of a group of powerful barons known as the Lords Appellant.
• Temur Qutlugh is crowned as the Khan of Golden Horde with the help of general Edigu. Although, Edigu continues to hold the real power.
• Thomas Arundel succeeds William Courtenay as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Richard Whittington (aka Dick Whittington) is elected Lord Mayor of London.
• Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery is founded in north-west Russia.
• Sretensky Monastery is founded in Moscow.
  • Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's brother, is created Duke of Surrey by King Richard.

1397 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1397 MCCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2150
Armenian calendar	846 ԹՎ ՊԽԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-447 – -446
Bengali calendar	804
Berber calendar	2347
Buddhist calendar	1941
Burmese calendar	759
Byzantine calendar	6905 – 6906
Chinese calendar	丙子年十二月初二日 (4033/4093-12-2) — to — 丁丑年十二月十二日 (4034/4094-12-12)
Coptic calendar	1113 – 1114
Ethiopian calendar	1389 – 1390
Hebrew calendar	5157 – 5158
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1453 – 1454
- Shaka Samvat	1319 – 1320
- Kali Yuga	4498 – 4499
Holocene calendar	11397
Iranian calendar	775 – 776
Islamic calendar	799 – 800
Japanese calendar	Ōei 4 (応永4年)
Korean calendar	3730
Thai solar calendar	1940

Births

• February 21 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1471)
• May 6 – Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1450)
• June 29 – King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• August 10 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
• November 15 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
• Chimalpopoca, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (d. 1427)
• Tlacaelel, Aztec nobleman (d. 1487)
• Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1482)
• Paolo Uccello, Florentine painter (d. 1475)

Deaths

• January 11 – Skirgaila, former Grand Duke of Lithuania
• February 18 – Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (b. 1340)
• June 3 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
• June 16 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
• September 2 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer
• September 15 – Adam Easton, Catholic cardinal
• September 21 – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
• date unknown – Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (b. 1350)