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Events and Trends
1392
- Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General Yi Seonggye led a coup d'état, overthrowing the kingdom of Goryeo and founding the kingdom of Joseon
- End of the reign of Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan
1394 Expulsion of Jews from France
1395 End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family
1397
- Richard Whittington aka Dick Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London
- John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset
1398
- Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed
- Construction of the Stecknitz Canal as one of the oldest artificial waterways of the world
- Timur arrived on the bank of the Indus River, and proceeded to sack Delhi
1399 Henry IV becomes King of England
Births
1390 future Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus
1391
- King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
- Gedun Drub, the first Dalai Lama
1393 John Capgrave, Augustinian theologian
1394
- Prince Henry the Navigator, explorer (d. 1460).
- Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer.
1396 Alfonso V of Aragon
1397
- King Sejong the Great of Joseon, the humane scientist ruler of Korea
- August 10 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Deaths
1393 Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan, fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
1394
- Emperor Chokei of Japan
- Anne of Bohemia
1397
- Thomas of Woodstock (son of King Edward III of England)
1398
- Emperor Suko of Japan, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.
- Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty.