1396
Calendar year
Year 1396 (MCCCXCVI leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
May 19 – Martin I succeeds his brother, John I , as King of Aragon (modern-day northeastern Spain).July 20 – Queen Margaret I of Denmark , Norway and Sweden publishes the Treaty of Kalmar , proposing the personal union of the three kingdoms of Denmark , Norway (with Iceland , Greenland , the Faroe Islands , Shetland and Orkney ) and Sweden (including Finland and Åland ).July 23 – Queen Margaret makes her great-nephew and adopted son Eric of Pomerania joint ruler of Sweden. Eric has already been made joint ruler of Norway.September – Battle of the North Inch ("Battle of the Thirty"): In a mass trial by combat on the North Inch of Perth, Scotland , the Clan Cameron defeat the Clan Mackintosh .September 19 – Duke of Brittany John V marries Joan of France .September 25 – Battle of Nicopolis : The Ottomans defeat a joint crusade by Hungary , France , the Holy Roman Empire , and Wallachia ,[ 1] King Sigismund of Hungary. This is the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages .October – A Transylvanian expedition captures Vlad I Uzurpatorul , thus allowing the restoration of Mircea I of Wallachia to the throne.October 31 – The widowed Richard II of England (29), and six-year-old Isabella of Valois (daughter of Charles VI of France ), are married in Calais, resulting in a temporary peace between the kingdoms of England and France.November 24 – The 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.
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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 ruler of the Principality of Achaea (modern-day Peloponnese, southern Greece).
Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty , in modern-day Morocco .
Timur appoints his son Miran Shah , as Timurid viceroy of present-day Azerbaijan .The Kart dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah.
Philibert de Naillac succeeds Juan Fernández de Heredia , as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller .
Huitzilihuitl 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 Baiyi Zhuan
Timur orders the construction of a garden in a meadow, House of Flowers.Peasants in the modern-day provinces of Hunan and Hubei in the east of China plant 84 million fruit trees.
The University of Zadar is founded, the first university in Croatia .
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References
^ Nicolle, David (1999). Nicopolis 1396: The Last Crusade . Campaign Series. London: Osprey Publishing.
