This page relates to the year 1394 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

• Beginning of the reign of Omar, king (May) of the Bornou (fine in 1398). It gives up the Kanem with the tribes Bouala and transfers its capital from Njimi to the west of the Lac Chad, with the Bornou.

• Beginning of the reign of Abu Faris, emir Hafside of Tunis (fine in 1434). It continues the policy of his father and manages to be made pay homage by the Mérinides. It begins again to the Arabs Tripoli of Libya and the cities which they occupy in the south of the country: Tozeur, Gafsa and Biskra.

Asia

• November 29th: The town of Seoul becomes the capital of the Korea.
• Japan: The Shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga is withdrawn and his/her son Yoshimochi becomes the fourth shogun Ashikaga.

Europe

• July 17th: Victoire of the Othoman against the Bulgarian with Tirnovo.
• September 13rd: The Juif S are expelled definitively of France on order of Charles VI.
• September 28th: Beginning of the Pontificate of the Pope of Avignon Benoit XIII (until in 1423).
• October 10th: Bayézid Ier of Turkey invades the Valachie and imposes as prince Vlad Ier the Usurper (fine in 1397).

• Richard II of England undertakes a victorious forwarding in Ireland. War against Art Mac Murrough, king of Leinster.

• the senate of Venice refuses the residence in the city with the Juifs of the commercial islands.
• the emperor Venceslas is made prisoner by the noble ones of Bohemia leagued within the Union seigneuriale.
• Foundation of the fortress of Giurgiu on the the Danube: the voïévode of Valachie Mircea Old the built or reinforces several fortified town on the Danube, of which most important is Giugiu, to 60 km in the south of Bucharest, on an island of the river.

Art & culture

• to solve the Great Schism of Occident, the Université of Paris recommends the abdication of the two popes ( via cessionis ).

• the Séfarade Abraham de Salinas paints for the cathedral of Saragossa of the retables of lives of saints, life of Christ, life of the Virgin.

• the Knight-errant , novel of Thomas de Saluces.

Births in 1394

• March 4th: Henri the Navigator, third wire of the king Jean {{Ier}} of Portugal, initiator of great Portuguese explorations. († November 13rd 1460).

• July 25th: birth of Jacques Ier of Scotland
• November 24th: birth of Charles of Orleans
• Ulugh Beg, prince Astronomer, Mathematician and Sultan of the Empire Timuride with Sultaniya in Iran († October 27th 1449 close to Samarkand in Ouzbékistan).

Death in 1394

• June 13rd: Warcisław VI, duke of Poméranie.

• September 16th: Clement VII, antipape.
• November 25th: Nerio Acciaiuoli I, duchy of Athens.

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