1396

This page relates to the year 1396 Calendrier Julien.

Events

America

Europe

  • May 19th: Beginning of the reign of Martin Human the or the Old (1356 - 1410), king of Aragon.

Balkans

  • September 25th: Battle of Nicopolis. The Christian army of Sigismond of Hungary and the united Westerners is demolished by the Othoman Turks of Bayazid Ier and the Serb ones of Stefan Lazarević with Nicopolis in Bulgaria, which puts an end to the crusade. Beginning of the Othoman occupation of the territory of the Bulgaria (fine in 1878).

    • the count Hermann II of Celje (death in 1435) saves the life of king de Hongrie with Nicopolis. It receives in reward of the fields in Croatia. Sigismond wife her daughter Borbála (Barb) Cillei.

France

Saint Worsens

  • In Bohemia, Wenceslas IV gives up its authority with the high clergy and the nobility following the assassination of Jean Népomucène (1393).

Scandinavia

  • Rendering of Stockholm; Margrethe Valdemarsdotter makes proclaim king of Sweden his great nephew Eric de Poméranie of which it is the tutor. She becomes regent of the three kingdoms.
    • Margrethe performs a “reduction” of the seigneuriaux goods which benefits with finances and the royal capacity. She makes proclaim with her son interior “peace”, under cover of the håndefœstnig . He is interdict with vassal to make use of their fortresses to collect and protect the outlaws, to carry out their private wars and to defy the royal authority. He theirs is from now on interdict to build with their use any new fortress.

Art & culture

  • the Humanistic Byzantine Manual Chrysoloras (1350 - 1415) sign at the university of Florence the language and Greek literature (end in 1399).

Economy & company

  • Ragusains obtain a letter of guarantee of Bayazid Ier. Thanks to its role of forwarding agent privileged between Turkey and the Occident, Raguse will know two centuries of prosperity.
  • System of the Timar S in the Ottoman Empire: the grounds of the conquest, which are in their state-owned property majority ( erz-i-mirie ), are redistributed in the form of concession, the timars: 90% of them are timars of sword allotted to riders ( sipahis ), the remainder of the timars of office which maintain the civil or religious civils servant (kadis, bishops, etc). The grounds therefore are not confiscated with their former owners: if they are faithful, the former holders of bashtina or pronoia can become timariotes without same converting with the Islam.

Births in 1396

Death in 1396

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