1390s
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Events and Trends
- 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
- Richard Whittington aka Dick Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London
- John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset
- 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
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Births
1390 future Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus
- King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
- Gedun Drub, the first Dalai Lama
1393 John Capgrave, Augustinian theologian
- Prince Henry the Navigator, explorer (d. 1460).
- Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer.
- King Sejong the Great of Joseon, the humane scientist ruler of Korea
- August 10 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
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Deaths
1393 Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan, fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
- Thomas of Woodstock (son of King Edward III of England)
- Emperor Suko of Japan, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.
- Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty.da:1390'erne
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