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horizontal 2/2 250 Sultan Gazi Yıldırım Bayezid Han - السلطان الغازي يلدرم بايزيد خان.jpg Icon of Saint Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria.jpg left June 3: Ottoman Sultan Bayezid has Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Shishman beheaded.
1395
horizontal 2/2 250 GiovAmbrogiodePredisattribGianGaleazzoVisconti.jpg Coat of arms of the Duchy of Milan (Sforza period).svg left May 1: Gian Galeazzo Visconti purchases the Duchy of Milan.
Year 1395 (MCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1395th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 395th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 14th century, and the 6th year of the 1390s decade.
Events
January–March
January 10 – Smil Flaška of Pardubice, the Supreme Provincial Scribe of the Kingdom of Bohemia, joins the League of Lords (Panská jednota), a group of nobles opposed to the rule of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia.
January 27 – The 22nd English Parliament of King Richard II assembles after being summoned on November 20. John Bussy is elected as Speaker of the House of Commons.
February 12 – At the Battle of Ghindăoani, the army led by King Sigismund of Hungary and Croatia is ambushed by Prince Stephen I of Moldavia, on its way back after conquering Neamț Citadel, and the Hungarians must retreat empty handed.
February 15 – The English Parliament adjourns after a 19-day session.
March 18 – After Donato Acciaioli, Duke of Athens, rewards Captain Andrea Bembo for defending Athens against an Ottoman attack, the Senate of the Republic of Venice votes to annex the Duchy of Athens."The Catalans and Florentines in Greece, 1380–1462", in A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, by Kenneth M. Setton (University of Wisconsin Press, 1975) p.259 9780299066703
April–June
April 14 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: At the Battle of the Terek River, the Mongol conqueror Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground, and Timur installs a puppet ruler, Quyurchuq, on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.Buell Paul D. Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire Lanham, MD Rowman & Littlefield 2018 978-1-5381-1136-9 https://books.google.com/books?id=Y38YAwAAQBAJ 265
May 1 – The Duchy of Milan is created, after Lord Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan buys the title of Duke from Wenceslaus, King of the Romans."Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 304–306". Vatican.va. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
May 17
Battle of Rovine: Wallachia resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals. But afterward, Mircea I of Wallachia has to start fighting a civil war against a rival to the throne, Vlad I Uzurpatorul.
Mary of Hungary dies, ending of the rule of Hungary by the Capet-Anjou family. Her co-reigning estranged husband, King Sigismund, becomes sole ruler of Hungary.
June 3 – Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire has the former Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Shishman beheaded after Shishman is accused of collaborating with the Principality of Wallachia during the 1394 Battle of Karanovasa.Българските ханове и царе The Bulgarian Khans and Tsars Jordan Andreev Milcho Lalkov 1996 bg Абагар (Abagar) Велико Търново (Veliko Tarnovo) 286 954-427-216-X
June 13 – Prince Albert of Austria marries his first cousin, once-removed, Joanna Sophia of Bavaria in Vienna ending a feud between her father, Albert, Duke of Bavaria and his father, Albert III, Duke of Austria.C.W. Previte-Orton The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History: The Twelfth Century to the Renaissance 2 Cambridge University Press 1952 796
July–September
July 8 – At a gathering of French cardinals at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, the assembled clerics demand the resignation of the antipope Benedict XIII (Pedro Martinez de Luna), who nine months earlier had been elected as the alternative to the Roman Pope Boniface IX. The only dissenting voice is Cardinal Martín de Zalba, but Benedict refuses to step down.Joëlle Rollo-Koster The Great Western Schism, 1378–1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity Cambridge University Press 2022 166
July 28 (7 Shawwal 797 AH) – Ali ibn Ajlan, the Emir of Mecca is killed and is succeeded by his brother Muhammad ibn Ajlan.Ibn Fahd ‘Izz al-Dīn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad Shaltūt Fahīm Muḥammad ar:غاية المرام بأخبار سلطنة البلد الحرام Ghāyat al-marām bi-akhbār salṭanat al-Balad al-Ḥarām The ultimate recounting of the history of the Sultanate of the Holy Land 1988 Jāmi‘at Umm al-Qurá, Markaz al-Baḥth al-‘Ilmī wa-Iḥyā’ al-Turāth al-Islāmī, Kullīyat al-Sharīʻah wa-al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīyah Mecca 2 1st 236 Arabic
August 6 – Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, issues an ordinance prohibiting the cultivation of the Gamay grape on any lands under his jurisdiction, in favor of the increased production of pinot noir wine.Jean-François Bazin Histoire du vin de Bourgogne The History of the Wines of Burgundy Paris Dunod 2002 21–22 2-87747-669-3.
August 25 – The oldest continuously operating fire department in Europe is established in Lisbon (Portugal) as the Serviço de incendios de Lisboa by royal decree.Regimento de Sapadores Bombeiros de Lisboa (Portugal): The oldest fire brigade in Europe WorldKings.org https://worldkings.org/news/europe-records-institute/euri-journey-to-promote-records-in-europe-p364-regimento-de-sapadores-bombeiros-de-lisboa-portugal-the-oldest-fire-brigade-in-europe 2026-10-10
August 29 – Albert IV succeeds his father, Albert III, as Duke of Austria.C. W. Previte-Orton The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History: The Twelfth Century to the Renaissance 2 Cambridge University Press 1952 796
September 5 –
The Kingdom of Nepal comes under the joint rule of brothers Jayadharma, Jayajyotir and Jayakiti Malla upon the death of their father, King Jayasthiti.Shaha Rishikesh https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/kailash/pdf/kailash_15_0102_02.pdf Ancient and Medieval Nepal University of Cambridge 1990 Kathmandu, Nepal 47 English 2024-12-03 2026-02-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20241203062233/https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/kailash/pdf/kailash_15_0102_02.pdf dead Petech, Luciano (1984). Medieval History of Nepal (PDF) (2nd ed.)(Rome: Fondata Da Giuseppe Tucci) pp.137-146
Gian Galeazzo Visconti is crowned as the first Duke of Milan.Bueno de Mesquita D. M. (Daniel Meredith) 2011 1941 Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (1351-1402): A Study in the Political Career of an Italian Despot Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 9780521234559 173 https://books.google.com/books?id=IrE8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22A+study+in+the+political+career+of+an+Italian+despot%22&pg=PAxi
September 8 – The death of King Stjepan Dabiša leads to the election of his wife Jelena Gruba as Queen of Bosnia. However, most of the Bosnian land is soon appropriated by King Sigismund of Hungary.Ćirković Sima Историја средњовековне босанске државе History of the medieval Bosnian state Srpska književna zadruga 1964 176 sh
Late September or early October (9th month of Korean calendar year 3728) – The Gwanghwamun Gate and the Jogyesa Temple are built in modern-day Seoul in .임석재|2019|pp=|p=39 임석재 (Im Seok-jae), (2019). 예(禮)로 지은 경복궁: 동양 미학으로 읽다 (Gyeongbokgung Palace Built with Propriety: A Reading Through Eastern Aesthetics (Korean). 인물과사상사 (Inmulgwasasangsa Press, 2019) p.39. 978-89-5906-551-6
October–December
October 8 – The University of Óbuda, the second in Hungary and the first in the capital, Budapest, is given a deed of foundation by Pope Boniface IX after the requests of King Sigismund of Hungary.https://web.archive.org/web/20181125073922/http://uni-obuda.hu/en/university/history/universities-middle-ages 2018-11-25 dead Universities in the Middle Ages http://uni-obuda.hu/en/university/history/universities-middle-ages en
November 22 – The embalmed body of Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, a friend and advisor of King Richard II, is buried in England, on the third anniversary of his death in France, and following King Richard's determination to provide proper honors for his funeral.Saul, Nigel (1997). Richard II. New Haven: Yale University Press. 0-300-07003-9. p. 461.
December 14 – By agreement with the Ottoman Turks, Radič Crnojević, Lord of Zeta and Budva and his brother Dobrivoje Crnojević occupy the region of Grbalj in modern-day Montenegro.Branislav Milutinović, Borba Balšića sa Mlečanima za zetske primorske gradove (The Balšićs' Struggle with the Venetians for the Zeta Coastal Cities), Round Table of the Historical Institute (Podgorica, 1999)
December 19 – The Principality of Monaco comes under the control of the Republic of Genoa, administered by the Doge Antoniotto I Adorno. Lord Jean I of the House of Grimaldi steps aside during the Genoan invasion.
Date unknown
Ramaracha succeeds his father Ramesuan as ruler of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in modern-day southern Thailand.
The Theotokos of Vladimir icon is moved to Moscow.
Births
January 11 – Michele of Valois, French princess and Duchess Consort of Burgundy (d. 1422)
March 18 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
September 7 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1427)
date unknown
Fra Angelico, Italian painter (d. 1455)
Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (d. 1469)
George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher and scholar (d. 1484)
Jacques Cœur, French merchant (d. 1456)
Deaths
March 13 – John Barbour, Scottish poet
May 17
Prince Marko, Serbian leader
Mary, Queen of Hungary, co-ruler
June 3 – Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria, tsar (b. c.1350)
August 29 – Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
December 25 – Elisabeth, Countess of Neuchâtel, Swiss ruler
date unknown
Acamapichtli, 1st tlatoani (monarch) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1375-1395 (b. c. 1355)https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/acamapichtli-punado-de-canas-1375-1395 Arqueologia Mexicana Acamapichtli, "Puñado de cañas" (1375-1395) July 2016 June 3, 2019 es Acamapichtli, "Fistful of canes" (1375-1395)
Margaret the Barefooted, Italian saint (b. 1325)
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