1396

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:C14 year in topicYear 1396 (MCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• May 19 – Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon (modern-day northeastern Spain).<ref>Bisson, Thomas N. (1986). The Medieval Crown of Aragon: A Short History. Clarendon Press, p. 125.</ref>
• 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).<ref name="Richard White">White, Richard (2010), These Stones Bear Witness, AuthorHouse, p. 56.</ref>
• 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.<ref name="Richard White" />
• 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.<ref>"Site Record for Perth, North Inch; 'The Battle Of The Clans'; Inch Of Perth". canmore.rcahms.gov.uk. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 28 January 2025.</ref>
• September 19 – Duke of Brittany John V marries Joan of France.<ref>Knecht, Robert (2004). The Valois: Kings of France 1328–1589. Hambledon Continuum, p. 6-7.</ref>
• September 25 – Battle of Nicopolis: The Ottomans defeat a joint crusade by Hungary, France, the Holy Roman Empire, and Wallachia,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> led by King Sigismund of Hungary. This is the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages.<ref>"Battle of Nicopolis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 January 2025.</ref>
• October – A Transylvanian expedition captures Vlad I Uzurpatorul, thus allowing the restoration of Mircea I of Wallachia to the throne.<ref>N. Djuvara, O scurtă istorie ilustrată a Românilor. Ed. Humanitas, București, 2013, p. 119.</ref>
• 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.<ref>Williams, Deanne (2016). "Isabelle de France, Child Bride". In Martin, Catherine Gimelli; Melehy, Hassan (eds.). French Connections in the English Renaissance. Routledge, p. 32-33.</ref>
• November 24 – The Transit of Venus, the last not to be part of a pair, is possibly observed by Aztec astronomers.<ref>SampleContents library, Transit of Venus.https://samplecontents.library.ph/wikipedia/wp/t/Transit_of_Venus.htm Retrieved 28 January 2025.</ref>
• November 29 – Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, marries Joan Beaufort in England.<ref>Weir, Alison (1999). Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy. London: The Bodley Head, p. 108.</ref>

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• The Ottomans capture the Bulgarian fortress of Vidin and Tsar Ivan Sratsimir, ending the Second Bulgarian Empire.<ref>Science historian chronicles true story of Lady Florence Baker, Penn State University, 3 February 2004, Retrieved 28 January 2025.</ref> The Bulgarian state is reestablished in 1878 as the Principality of Bulgaria.<ref>Miller-Yianni, Martin (20 May 2010). Bulgarian History — A Concise Account. Lulu.com. Template:ISBN. Retrieved 28 January 2025 – via Google Books.</ref>
• France conquers the Republic of Genoa.<ref>Kirk, Thomas Allison (2005). Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 26. Template:ISBN. Archived from the original on 11 February 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2025.</ref>
• After a 14-year interregnum, Pedro de San Superano is declared ruler of the Principality of Achaea (modern-day Peloponnese, southern Greece).<ref>Miller, William (1908). The Latins in the Levant: A History of Frankish Greece (1204–1556). E. P Dutton and Company. OCLC 1106830090. p. 317–318, 368, 651.</ref>
• Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty, in modern-day Morocco.<ref>Ilahiane, Hsain (2006-07-17). Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Scarecrow Press. Template:ISBN, p. 156.</ref>
• Timur appoints his son Miran Shah, as Timurid viceroy of present-day Azerbaijan.<ref>Barthold, Vasilii Vladimirovitch (1963). Four Studies on the History of Central Asia. Vol. 2. Brill Archive. p. 33.</ref>
• The Kart dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah.<ref>Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich Bartolʹd, Four Studies on the History of Central Asia, Vol.II, (Brill, 1958), 33.</ref>
• Philibert de Naillac succeeds Juan Fernández de Heredia, as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.<ref>Whitworth Porter (31 October 2013). A History of the Knights of Malta. Cambridge University Press. p. 291. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Huitzilihuitl succeeds his father, Acamapichtli, as ruler of the Aztecs.<ref>Simon, Z (2021). "Ten Chronologies of Ancient Mexico"</ref>
• 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.<ref>Wade, Geoff (1996) "The Bai Yi Zhuan: A Chinese Account of Tai Society in the 14th Century," 14th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. (Includes translation of (Jiangliang, 1980), a copy can be found at the Thailand Information Center at ChulalongkornCentral Library)[1]</ref>
• Timur orders the construction of a garden in a meadow, House of Flowers.<ref>HISTORY OF SAMARKAND GARDENS BUILT BY AMIR TEMUR. Kamoliddin G’aniev, Samarkand State University, Associate Professor of History of Uzbekistan. Article history: Abstract: Received: 2th April 2021 In the article on the basis of sources landscape gardening. https://scholarzest.com/index.php/esj/article/download/726/615/1477. Retrieved 28 January 2025.</ref>
• 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.<ref>"University of Zadar : About us". Unizd.hr. Retrieved 28 January 2025.</ref>

Births

• July 31 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
• October 16 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English noble (d. 1450)
• date unknown
  • Alfonso V of Aragon (d. 1458)
  • Bonne of Artois, countess regent of Nevers (d. 1425)
  • Ambroise de Loré, baron of Ivry in Normandy (d. 1446)
  • Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1472)
  • Ponhea Yat, ruler of the Khmer Empire (d. 1460?)

Deaths

• January 11 – Isidore Glabas, Metropolitan bishop of Thessalonica (b. 1341/2)
• May 19 – John I of Aragon (b. 1350)
• July 31 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
• September 15 – Queen Sindeok, politically active Korean queen (b. 1356)
• 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)
  • She Xiang, Chinese tribute chieftain (b. 1361)