1390

This article is about the year 1390.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1387 1388 1389 – 1390 – 1391 1392 1393

1390 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1390 in poetry

1390 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1390 MCCCXC
Ab urbe condita	2143
Armenian calendar	839 ԹՎ ՊԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6140
Bengali calendar	797
Berber calendar	2340
English Regnal year	13 Ric. 2 – 14 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1934
Burmese calendar	752
Byzantine calendar	6898–6899
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4086 or 4026     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4087 or 4027
Coptic calendar	1106–1107
Discordian calendar	2556
Ethiopian calendar	1382–1383
Hebrew calendar	5150–5151
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1446–1447
- Shaka Samvat	1312–1313
- Kali Yuga	4491–4492
Holocene calendar	11390
Igbo calendar	390–391
Iranian calendar	768–769
Islamic calendar	792–793
Japanese calendar	Kōō 2 / Meitoku 1 (明徳元年)
Julian calendar	1390 MCCCXC
Korean calendar	3723
Minguo calendar	522 before ROC 民前522年
Thai solar calendar	1932–1933

Year 1390 (MCCCXC) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 19 – Treaty of Lyck confirms an alliance between Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights in the Lithuanian Civil War against Vytautas's cousin, Jogaila.
• April 14 – John VII Palaiologos overthrows his grandfather, John V Palaiologos, as Byzantine Emperor.
• April 19 – Robert III succeeds his father, Robert II, as King of Scotland.
• May 26 – Treaty of Königsberg signed in Königsberg during the Lithuanian Civil War between Samogitian nobles and representatives of the Teutonic Knights.
• September 11 – In the Lithuanian Civil War, the coalition of Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights begins a 5-week siege of Vilnius. The Duke of Hereford (the future King Henry IV of England) is among the western European knights serving with the coalition.
• September 17 – John VII Palaiologos seeks refuge with the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I after John V Palaiologos is restored by his son, Manuel, and the Republic of Venice.
• October 9 – Henry III succeeds his father, John I, as King of Castile and León.

Date unknown

• The Ottomans take Philadelphia, the last Byzantine enclave of any significance in Anatolia.
• Barquq is restored as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt after overthrowing Sultan Hadji II.
• Nasir ud din Muhammad Shah III overthrows his brother, Abu Bakr Shah, as Sultan of Delhi.
• Manuel III succeeds his father, Alexios III, as Emperor of Trebizond (now north eastern Turkey).
• Sikandar But-shikan succeeds Sikandar Shah as Sultan of Kashmir.
• Ko Cheng succeeds Che Bong Nga as King of Champa (now eastern Vietnam).
• Mahmud succeeds Sandaki as Mansa of the Mali Empire.
• N'Diklam Sare succeeds Sare N'Dyaye as ruler of the Jolof Empire (now part of Senegal).
• The Kingdom of Kaffa is established in present day Ethiopia (approximate date).
• Templo Mayor, the main temple of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), is built.
• The Candi Surawana Temple is built in the Majapahit Kingdom (now Indonesia).
• Construction begins on San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.

Births

• October 3 – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447)
• December 27 – Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
• probable
  • John Dunstaple, English composer (d. 1453)
  • Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman and rebel leader (d. 1436)

Deaths

• March 20 – Alexios III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1338)
• April 19 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
• August 14 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
• September 23 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
• October 9 – King John I of Castile (fall from a horse) (b. 1358)
• September – Towtiwil, Prince of Black Ruthenia
• probable – Altichiero, Italian painter (b. 1330)