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1399
June 2020
250px|thumb|September 29: King Richard II of England, taken prisoner by the rebel Henry Bolingbroke, abdicates and presents his crown to the new King Henry IV.
1399
thumb|right|110px|Henry IV of EnglandYear 1399 (MCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
January 13 – In the Delhi Sultanate in what is now the Uttarakhand state of India, Timur the Lame captures and sacks Haridwar.History The Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 2, p. 570.
February 3 – John of Gaunt, Duke of Aquitaine uncle of King Richard II of England and father of Henry Bolingbroke, dies and King Richard becomes ruler of the Duchy.John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster 21 March 1999 Britannica.com https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-of-Gaunt-duke-of-Lancaster
February 19 – The Principality of Piombino is formed after Prince Gherardo Appiani sells the city of Pisa to the Duchy of Milan for 200,000 florins and possession of five cities and three islands (including Elba).Cappelletti Licurgo Storia della Città di Piombino Forni Editore 1897 35 it
March 18 – Richard II of England cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's lands, leading to Henry's decision to overthrow King Richard.Barr Helen Signes and Sothe: Language in the Piers Plowman Tradition D.S. Brewer 1994 146 978-0-85991-419-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=RPNVlYhWBqEC&pg=PA146.
April–June
April 13 – The coronation of Martin of Aragon as King takes place in Barcelona.D. A. Dietari del Consell antich barceloní. V.I. Barcelona. Impremta d’en Henrich y companyia. 1892, p. 77. ca His wife Maria de Luna is crowned as the Queen consort takes place on April 23.
May 3 – Pope Boniface IX of Rome excommunicates Onorato Caetani, Great Constable of the Kingdom of Naples, who had previously been excommunicated in 1367 by Pope Urban V of Rome, and then was forgiven in 1378 by Pope Clement VII of Avignon. Boniface's action follows Caetani's continued support of the Avignon papacy, after which a crusade against Caetani's properties at Fondi.Edmond-René Labande, CAETANI, Onorato, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Enciclopedia Italiana - Volume 16 (1973)
May 10 – The Treaty of Tarbes is signed between representatives of King Charles VI of France and Archambaud of Grailly, who has been an ally of the French monarch's enemy, King Richard II of England. Under the treaty, de Grailly is made Count of Foix in southern France, in return for breaking his alliance with King Richard. Two of the Count of Foix's sons are sent as hostages to the Royal Court of France in order to secure the terms of the agreement.Cursed Kings: The Hundred Years War IV Jonathan Sumption Faber & Faber 2016 139-140
June 20 – An-Nasir Faraj becomes the Sultan of Egypt upon the death of his father, the Sultan Sayf ad-Din Barquq.The Mameluke; or, Slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517, A. D. William Muir William Muir 1896 Smith, Elder and Co. 121-128
June 21 – Egyptian prince Saad al-Din bin Ghurab becomes the Amir al-umara of Egypt.
July–September
July 4 – While Richard II of England is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated lands.Brown 2010 Summerson Alfred Lawson H. Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke] 10.1093/ref:odnb/12951 Alfred Lawson Brown
July 10 – Ladislaus regains the throne of the Kingdom of Naples, after King Louis II of Anjou and his army have left the city to suppress a rebllion in Apulia.Kekewich Margaret L. 2008 The Good King: René of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe Palgrave Macmillan 51 978-1-4039-8820-1
July 17 – Władysław II Jagiełło becomes sole ruler of Poland, after the death of his co-ruling wife, Queen Jadwiga.Halecki Oscar Oscar Halecki 1991 Jadwiga of Anjou and the Rise of East Central Europe Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America 257 0-88033-206-9
August 6 – Prince of Yan (Zhu Di) of China starts a rebellion, the Jingnan campaign in Beijing against his nephew, the Emperor Zhu Yunwen, after two of Zhu Di's officials are arrested for "subversive activity".Tsai Shih-Shan Henry https://archive.org/details/perpetualhappine0000tsai Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle University of Washington Press; Combined Academic 2002 63 0295981245 Seattle and Chesham
August 12 – At the Battle of the Vorskla River, Golden Horde forces, led by Mongol Khan Temür Qutlugh and Emir Edigu, annihilate a crusading army led by former Golden Horde Khan Tokhtamysh, and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania..Alfred Rambaud and Graeme Mercer Adam, The History of Russia from the Earliest Times to 1877. A. L. Burt, 1904) pp. 135–136.Michael Prawdin and Gerard Chaliand, The Tatar Empire: Its Rise and Legacy (Transaction Publishers, 2006) p.472 ISBN 1-4128-0519-8
August 19 – Richard II of England is taken prisoner by Henry Bolingbroke upon his return from Ireland and surrenders at Flint Castle in return for his life.Richard II, King of England (1367–1400) http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/richard2.htm 17 August 2012 Luminarium.org 2 March 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150302130722/http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/richard2.htm dead
September 1 – Richard II, though still nominally the King of England, is imprisoned by Henry Bolingbroke at the Tower of London.Saul Nigel Richard II 1997 Yale University Press New Haven, Connecticut 417 0-3000-7003-9
September 30 – King Richard II of England surrenders his crown to Henry Bolingbroke at an assembly of the House of Lords at Westminster Hall in London, where articles of desposition are read to him by the Archbishop of Canterbury. King Richard abdicates, and the Lords proclaim Bolingbroke as King Henry IV.Jones Dan The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England 2012 HarperPress 978-0-0072-1392-4
October–December
October 13 – Henry Bolingborke is crowned as King Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey.Bevan Bryan Henry IV 1994 New York St. Martin's Press 67 0-3121-1696-9
October 19 – Thomas Arundel is formally restored as Archbishop of Canterbury by King Henry, replacing Roger Walden, who had been installed by King Richard II upon Arundel's dismissal in 1397.Arundel, Thomas 2Fryde, E. B. Greenway, D. E. Porter, S. Roy, I. Handbook of British Chronology Third revised Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1996 0-521-56350-X
November 1 – At Nantes, Jean V of the House of Montfort begins his reign of 43 years as the Duke of Brittany (Bretagne), an independent duchy that is now part of France, upon the death of his father, Jean IV.Jones 1970 Michael Ducal Brittany 1364–1399 Oxford University Press
November 28 – At Suceava (now in Romania), Iuga Voda Ologul becomes prince of MoldaviaDocumenta Romaniae Historica A. Moldova, vol. I (1384-1475) Institutul de Istorie și Arheologie A.D. Xenopol, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, București, 1975) pp. 10-16
December 10 – Manuel II Palaiologos, The Emperor of Byzantium, departs from Constantinople along with French General Jean II Le Maingre (known as Boucicaut) and a ships of the Venetian navy on a diplomatic mission to obtain military aid, traveling first to the Republic of Venice to negotiate with the Doge Antonio Venier.Jugie Martin 1912 Le voyage de l'empereur Manuel Paléologue en Occident (1399-1403) The Voyage of Emperor Manuel Paleologos to the West (1399-1403) https://www.persee.fr/doc/rebyz_1146-9447_1912_num_15_95_3997 Revue des études byzantines 15 95 322–332 10.3406/rebyz.1912.3997
Date unknown
Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire invades Mamluk-occupied Syria. A rift forms between Sultan Bayezid and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who also wanted to conquer Syria.
The Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece) resists an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
Births
March 16 – Xuande Emperor of China (d. 1435)
June 26 – John, Count of Angoulême (d. 1467)
date unknown
William II Canynges, English merchant (approximate date; d. 1474)
Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1468)
Rogier van der Weyden, Dutch painter (or 1400)
Deaths
thumb|right|110px|John of Gaunt died 3 February
thumb|right|110px|Jadwiga of Poland died 17 July
January 4 – Nicholas Eymerich, Catalan theologian and inquisitor
February 3 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, English prince (b. 1340)John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster English prince https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-of-Gaunt-duke-of-Lancaster Encyclopedia Britannica 26 June 2020 en
March 24 – Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b. c. 1320)
July 13 – Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
July 17 – King Jadwiga of Poland (b. 1374)
August 12 – Demetrius I Starshy, Prince of Trubczewsk (in battle) (b. 1327)
August 15 – Ide Pedersdatter Falk, Danish noblewoman (b. 1358)
August 26 – Mikhail II, Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1333)
September 22 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
October 3 – Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (b. c.1366)Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/eleanor-de-bohun-duchess-of-gloucester Westminster Abbey 18 March 2019 en
October 5 – Raymond of Capua, Italian Dominic friar and venerated Christian (b. 1330)
November 1 – Duke John IV of Brittany (b. 1339)
date unknown
Spytek z Melsztyna, Polish nobleman
William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (b. 1350)
Sultan Barquq of Egypt
Trần Ngung, former ruler of Trần dynasty Vietnam (forced to commit suicide)
Stephen I of Moldavia
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