1394

October 11 The consecration of the Antipope Benedict XIII takes place at Avignon.
1394 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1394
MCCCXCIV
Ab urbe condita2147
Armenian calendar843
ԹՎ ՊԽԳ
Assyrian calendar6144
Balinese saka calendar1315–1316
Bengali calendar800–801
Berber calendar2344
English Regnal year17 Ric. 2 – 18 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar1938
Burmese calendar756
Byzantine calendar6902–6903
Chinese calendar癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
4091 or 3884
    — to —
甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
4092 or 3885
Coptic calendar1110–1111
Discordian calendar2560
Ethiopian calendar1386–1387
Hebrew calendar5154–5155
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1450–1451
 - Shaka Samvat1315–1316
 - Kali Yuga4494–4495
Holocene calendar11394
Igbo calendar394–395
Iranian calendar772–773
Islamic calendar796–797
Japanese calendarMeitoku 5 / Ōei 1
(応永元年)
Javanese calendar1308–1309
Julian calendar1394
MCCCXCIV
Korean calendar3727
Minguo calendar518 before ROC
民前518年
Nanakshahi calendar−74
Thai solar calendar1936–1937
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Water-Bird)
1520 or 1139 or 367
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Wood-Dog)
1521 or 1140 or 368

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

Events

January–March

  • January 10 – Antonio Venier, Doge of the Republic of Venice appoints Desiderato Lucio as the Grand Chancellor. Lucio serves until April 23, 1396.[1]
  • January 11 – The King of Naples, Ladislao of Anjou-Durazzo, grants Neapolitan-controlled Greece to Nerio Acciaioli as the Duchy of Athens.[2]
  • January 15 – Grand Prince Chinan of the Joseon kingdom in Korea, eldest son of King Taejo and heir to the throne, dies at the age of 39 from complications of alcoholism.
  • January 20 – In India, Ala ud-din Sikandar Shah becomes the new Sultan of Delhi upon the death of his father, Muhammad Shah III.[3]
  • January 28 – The English Parliament, summoned by King Richard II of England, opens it session after having been summoned on November 13, 1393, and elects Sir John Bussy as its speaker.
  • February 1 – Sikandar Shah is crowned Sultan in a ceremony at Delhi.[3]
  • February 28Richard 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.[4]
  • March 6 – The English Parliament closes after a 37 day session. Among the acts receiving royal assent are the Money Act (prohibiting the melting of money and the import of foreign money), the Cloths Act ("Every person may make cloth of what length and breadth he will."), and the Exportation of Corn Act (allowing all of the King's subjects to ship grain from the Kingdom.)[5]
  • March 8Mahmud Shah II becomes the new Sultan of Delhi when his brother, Sikandar, dies after less than seven weeks as monarch.[3] At the same time, another claimant to the throne, Nasir-ud-din Nusrat Shah Tughluq, proclaims his rule at the royal palace in Firozabad.[6]

April–June

  • April 26 – Martín Yáñez de la Barbudo of the Kingdom of Castile, master of the Order of Alcántara military group and leader of a crusade against the Muslim Emirate of Granada, leads an army across the border into the Emirate and marches toward the capital. Granadan Emir Muhammad VII sends emissaries to King Enrique III of Castile to complain about the violation of the truce between them, and then mobilizes the Granadan Army to repel the invasion by Barbuda, who is killed in the battle along with hundreds of other Castilians.[7]
  • May 17 – By order of King Taejo of the Joseon dyanasty of Korea, who had taken power in 1392 by overthrowing the Goryeo dynasty, the former monarch, King Gongyang, is executed by strangulation at the prison in Samcheok, along with Crown Prince Jeongseong and the remaining survivors of the Goryeo royal family.[8]
  • June 3 – At Tunis, Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz al-Mutawakkil becomes the new of Caliph of the Hafsid Sultanate of Ifriqiya in North Africa (now part of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya after the death of his father Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II,
  • June 11 – The Venetians take over possession of Argos, from Despot Theodore I Palaiologos.[9]

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

Deaths

References

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