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Year 1396 (MCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• May 19 – Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon (now north-east Spain).
• July 23 – Queen Margaret of Norway, Denmark and Sweden makes her adopted son Eric of Pomerania joint ruler of Sweden. Eric had already been made joint ruler of Norway.
• September – In the Battle of the North Inch ("Battle of the Thirty"), a mass trial by combat on the North Inch of Perth, Scotland, the Clan Cameron defeat the Clan Mackintosh.
• September 25 – Battle of Nicopolis: The Ottomans defeat a joint crusade by Hungary, France, the Holy Roman Empire, England and Wallachia,^[1] led by King Sigismund of Hungary. This is the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages.
• October 31 – Marriage of the widowed Richard II of England (29) and 6-year-old Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France, resulting in a temporary peace between the kingdoms of England and France.
• November 24 – Transit of Venus, the last not to be part of a pair, is possibly observed by Aztec astronomers.
• November 29 – Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, marries Joan Beaufort in England.

Date unknown

• The Ottomans capture the Bulgarian fortress of Vidin and Tsar Ivan Sratsimir, ending the Second Bulgarian Empire. The Bulgarian state is reestablished in 1878 as the Principality of Bulgaria.
• France conquers the Republic of Genoa.
• After a 14-year interregnum, Pedro de San Superano is declared as ruler of the Principality of Achaea (modern-day Peloponnese, southern Greece).
• Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
• Timur appoints his son Miran Shah as Timurid viceroy of present-day Azerbaijan.
• The Kartid dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah, son of Timur Lenk.
• Philibert de Naillac succeeds Juan Fernández de Heredia as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
• Huitzilíhuitl succeeds his father, Acamapichtli, as ruler of the Aztecs.
• The Ulu Camii mosque is built in Bursa by the Ottomans.
• The Ming dynasty court of China sends two envoys, Qian Guxun and Li Sicong, to the Ava Kingdom of Burma and the Tai polity of the Mong Mao in order to resolve a dispute between these two. The travels of the Chinese ambassadors are recorded in the historical text of the Bai Yi Zhuan.
• Timur orders the construction of a garden in a meadow, House of Flowers.
• Peasants in the modern-day provinces of Hunan and Hupeh in the east of China plant 84 million fruit trees.
• Taejo of Joseon ends to rule.
• The University of Zadar is founded, the first university in Croatia.

Births

• July 31 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
• October 16 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (d. 1450)
• date unknown
  • Alfonso V of Aragon (d. 1458)
  • John de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros (d. 1421)
  • Ambroise de Loré, baron of Ivry in Normandy (d. 1446)
  • Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1472)

Deaths

• January 11 – Isidore Glabas, Metropolitan bishop of Thessalonica (b. 1341/2)
• July 31 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
• November 29 – Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme (b. 1373)
• date unknown
  • John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (b. 1361)
  • Frederick II, Marquess of Saluzzo
  • Saint Stephen of Perm (b. 1340)

References