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250px|thumb|June 15: The Battle of Kosovo is fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Principality of Serbia, with the rulers of both nations losing their lives.
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thumb|250px|July 18: England and France agree to the Truce of Leulinghem to halt the Hundred Years' War for 13 years.
Year 1389 (MCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
January 19 – In Ming dynasty China, General Lan Yu is rewarded by the Emperor Zhu Chongba of the Hongwu era for his victory over Mongol invaders in 1388. Lan Yu is given the title Duke of Liang, with rule over what is now the Gansu province.Goodrich L. Carrington https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofming0001asso Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368–1644 Fang Chaoying New York Columbia University Press 1976 788-790 0-231-03801-1
January 24 – The University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) begins operations Willehad Paul Eckert, Kleine Geschichte der Universität Köln (A Short History of the University of Köln (Bachem, 1961) and continues for more than 400 years before closing in 1798. It will be re-established in 1918.
February 24 – Queen Margaret of Norway and Denmark defeats Albert, King of Sweden in battle and becomes ruler of all three kingdoms. Albert is deposed from the Swedish throne and taken prisoner.
March 14 – The unpopular Sultan Tughluq Khan of Delhi is murdered and succeeded by his brother, Abu Bakr Shah. The assassins, including Abu Bakr, kill the Sultan Tughluq and his vizier, Jahan Khan.Jackson Peter Peter Jackson (historian) https://archive.org/details/TheDelhiSultanateAPoliticalAndMilitaryHistoryCambridgeStudiesInIslamicCivilization/page/n353/mode/1up the Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History April 1999 353 Cambridge University Press
April–June
April 1 – Following the Battle of Sempach, a seven-year peace agreement is concluded between the Duchy of Austria and the Old Swiss Confederacy.8871 Battle of Sempach
April 19 – Lithuania, the last state in Europe to be Christianized, is given full recognition by Pope Urban VI as a Roman Catholic state.Eidintas Alfonsas The History of Lithuania 2015 Eugrimas Publishing House Vilnius 978-609-437-163-9 51 https://urm.lt/uploads/default/documents/Travel_Residence/history_of_lithuania_new.pdf 2021-01-28 2026-03-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20210128190626/https://urm.lt/uploads/default/documents/Travel_Residence/history_of_lithuania_new.pdf dead
May 3 – Richard II takes control of England, away from the Lords Appellant.
May 19 – Vasili I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow after the death of his father, Dmitry Donskoy.
May 21 – Sir John Roches is made Admiral of the North and Western Fleets of the English Navy by King Richard II, but serves for only a month, until June 22.Woodger L. S. Roches, Sir John (c.1333-1400), of Bromham, Wilts. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/roches-sir-john-1333-1400 dead 25 July 2017 History of Parliament Online Institute of Historical Research, University of London 8 May 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230508191939/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/roches-sir-john-1333-1400
June 2 – Al-Salih Hajji becomes the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria a second time, replacing the Sultan Sayf ad-Din Barquq after having previously reigned from 1381 to 1382.Caroline Williams, et al., Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide (American University in Cairo Press, 2002) pp.16-176 9789774246951 Al-Salih rules until 1 February 1390, when he is overthrown by Barquq.
June 11 – The Hättebröder, a group of German-speaking burghers during the reign of the German Albrecht as King of Sweden, arrest and imprison the Swedish mayor of Stockholm, Bertil Brun, and two other city officials, whom they hold for ransom.Heidenstam Verner von XXIII. I kung Albrekts dagar. Hättebröder och kapare (Svenskarna och deras hövdingar) https://runeberg.org/svenhovd/230.html 2025-10-01 runeberg.org sv Brun and the other two officials become victims two weeks later of the Käpplinge murders.
June 15 – At the Battle of Kosovo, The Ottoman Empire and the Serbs fight an inconclusive clash, with both sides suffering heavy losses. Both Sultan Murad I and Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic are killed in the battle.
June 16 – The day after the Battle of Kosovo, Bayezid I succeeds his father Murad I as Ottoman Sultan, and Stefan Lazarević succeeds his father Lazar as ruler of Serbia."Bayezid I", by Halil Inalcik, in The Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. I, ed. by H.A.R. Gibb, et al. (Brill, 1986) p. 1118
June 17 – On the night of the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Käpplinge murders (Käpplingemorden) take place in Sweden at Käpplingeholmen when 76 Swedish men are taken prisoner, convicted of treason, then burned alive in a barn.Astrid Heyde, "Käpplingemorden år 1389: ett 600-årsminne?" (Sankt Eriksårsbok publishing, 1989) pp. 9-18
July–September
July 12 – English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, who has recently started writing of the works that will be assembled in The Canterbury Tales, is given a job to supplement his income as a writer when he is appointed by King Richard II of England as Clerk of the King's Works, overseer of the construction of royally-sponsored buildings. Henry Morley, English Writers: an attempt towards a history of English literature, Vol. 5 (London: Cassell & Co., 1890) p. 245
July 18 – The Hundred Years' War is temporarily halted as the Truce of Leulinghem goes into effect after having been signed in June by the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of France. The peace will last for 13 years.The Hundred Years War: Divided Houses 2009 Sumption Jonathan 978-0-571-13897-5 University of Pennsylvania Press 813-818
August 11 – Spyridon of Serbia, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church since 1380, dies and the former Patriarch, Jefrem, takes his place.Radojičić Đ. Sp. Grigorije iz Gornjaka Историјски часопис 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=U1R_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 1952 Istorijski institut 86 GGKEY:73HS377YS6Y
August 23 – Isabeau of Bavaria, who married King Charles V of France on July 17, 1385, is crowned as Queen consort of France.(1978).Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century(New York: Ballantine, 1978) pp.455-457 978-0-345-34957-6
August 24 – Qutbu'd-Din Shah, the Sultan of Kashmir, dies after a reign of 16 years and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Sikandar Shah Miri.Retzlaff Ralph H. Hasan Mohibbul Kashmir under the Sultans http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/595144 Journal of the American Oriental Society 53 10.2307/595144 595144 0003-0279 subscription Sikandar's mother, Queen Subhata, serves as the regent of Kashmir during his minority.
September 8 – Erik of Pomerania becomes the new King of Norway with the regnal name of Erik III after being elected at Trondheim by the Ting, the kingdom's assembly. https://snl.no/Erik_av_Pommern Erik Av Pommern Store norske leksikon Erik Opsahl 1 June 2018
September 10 – In Greece, Andronikos Asen Zaccaria, chief law enforcement officer of the Principality of Achaea, ruled by the Republic of Genoa, imprisons the Duke of Athens, Nerio Acciaioli, after the Navarrese commander Pedro de San Superano had invited Acciaioli to discuss peace.Setton Kenneth M. The Catalans in Greece, 1311–1380; The Catalans and Florentines in Greece, 1380–1462 The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries The History of the Crusades Three 1975 The University of Wisconsin Press 248 978-0-299-06670-3
September 22 – The Republic of Siena and the Duchy of Milan enter into a 10-year alliance. Caferro William John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy 2006 Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 285–288 0-8018-8323-7
September 30 – King Charles VI of France and the Bishop Liébauld de Cousans of Verdun sign a treaty granting the Roman Catholic Church dominion over the city of Verdun. The treaty is approved five months later by Pope Clement VI on February 13, 1390.Louis Clouêt, (1870), Histoire de Verdun et du pays verdunois., volume 3 fr. (Verdun: Ch. Laurent, 1870) p.41
October –December
October 25 – The papal conclave to elect a new Pope opens at the Apostolic Palace in Rome with 13 cardinals, all of whom had been selected by Pope Urban during the years from 1378 to 1384.Salvator Miranda, Papal Elections of the 14th Century (1303–1394) (1998)."The three absentees (from France, England and Hungary) had also been elevated to the college of cardinals by Pope Urban.
November 1 – The Antipope John XXIII, reigning from Avignon, crowns Louis II of Anjou as King of Naples, although the underage King Ladislaus has been recognized as the rightful monarch by the late Pope Urban VI of Rome.Kekewich Margaret L. 2008 The Good King: René of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe Palgrave Macmillan 51 978-1-4039-8820-1 Louis II will move to Naples on August 6, 1390, while Ladislaus flees, but since his troops cannot occupy the entire Neapolitan kingdom, Louis is only recognized in the French-occupied areas of Naples.Sumption Jonathan Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption 2009 The Hundred Years War, Volume III: Divided Houses Faber and Faber 781 978-0-571-24012-8
November 2 – Pietro Tomacelli Cybo of Naples is elected as the successor of the late Pope Urban VI, and takes the name Pope Boniface IX.
December 31 – In the Goryeo Revolution in Korea, 9-year-old King Wang Chang of Goryeo, and his father, the former King Wang U are assassinated by Prince Gongyang. The ten-year-old Chang and his predecessor, U, are both assassinated later in the year.
Date unknown
Mircea I of Wallachia and Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło sign their first treaty, to protect their countries against Ottoman expansion.
Hadji II is restored as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, after overthrowing Sultan Barquq.
Wikramawardhana succeeds Hayam Wuruk, as ruler of the Majapahit Empire.
Biri II succeeds Kade Alunu as King of the Kanem-Bornu Empire (now eastern Chad and Nigeria), and the Empire loses its land in present-day Chad to the Bilala.
Sandaki overthrows Magha II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire.
Abd ar-Rahmân II succeeds Musa II as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty, in present-day western Algeria.
Abu Tashufin II succeeds his nephew, Abu Hammu II, as ruler of the Abdalwadid Dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.
Carmo Convent is built in Lisbon, Portugal.
Births
March 1 – Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop (d. 1459)
June 20 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
April 10 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
November 9 – Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (d. 1409)Panton James Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy 24 February 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7497-8 266 https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA266 en
December 5 – Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Polish cardinal and statesman (d. 1455)
December 24 – Duke John V of Brittany (d. 1442)
Deaths
March 14 – Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II, Sultan of Delhi (murdered)
May 19 – Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
June 15 (in the Battle of Kosovo)
Prince Lazar, Prince of Serbia (b. 1329)
Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
Miloš Obilić, Serbian knight
October 15 – Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
December 31 (assassination)
Chang of Goryeo, deposed Korean king (b. 1381)
U of Goryeo, Korean king (b. 1365)
date unknown
Isabella, Countess of Fife, Scottish noblewoman (b. 1320)
Hayam Wuruk, ruler of the Majapahit Empire (b. 1334)
Ignatius Saba I, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Tur Abdin.George A. Kiraz Sobo, Ignatius Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts George A. Kiraz Lucas Van Rompay https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sobo-Ignatius Gorgias Press 2011 26 December 2020 George A. Kiraz 381–382
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