1394

Events

January–December

• February 28 – Richard II of England grants Geoffrey Chaucer 20 pounds a year for life, for his services as a diplomat and Clerk of The King's Works.
• June 11 – The Venetians take over possession of Argos, from Despot Theodore I Palaiologos.
• September 17 – King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.
• September 28 – Antipope Benedict XIII is elected to succeed Antipope Clement VII.
• October 10 – Battle of Karanovasa: Wallachia resists an invasion by the Ottomans, and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.
• November 29 – The capital city of the Joseon Dynasty is moved from Gaegyeong to Hanseong.

  Date unknown

• The Ottomans conquer Thessaly and begin an eight-year siege of Constantinople, in the Byzantine Empire. In the same year, they begin building the Anadoluhisarı fortress to defend themselves during the siege.
• Ashikaga Yoshimitsu retires as shōgun of Japan, and is succeeded by his son, Ashikaga Yoshimochi.
• Gyeongbokgung Palace and the Jongmyo royal ancestral shrine are built in Hanseong.
• After the death of Sultan Mahmud II, civil war breaks out in the Delhi Sultanate, splitting the state between east and west.
• Battle of Ros-Mhic-Thriúin: The Kingdom of Leinster, led by King Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, defeats an invading army from England, led by King Richard II of England and Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March.
• Ştefan I succeeds Roman I, as Prince of Moldavia.
• Abu Zayyan II succeeds his brother, Abul Hadjdjadj I, as ruler of the Abdalwadid Dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.
• Abd al-Aziz II succeeds Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II, as ruler of the Hafsid Dynasty in present-day Tunisia.
• The Allgäuer Brauhaus brewery is founded in present-day Germany.
• The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty in China orders the Ministry of Public Works to issue a public notice, that every 100 households in the lijia system are to set aside 2 mu of land, for planting mulberry and jujube trees.

  Births

• March 4 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration
• June 4 – Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
• July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun
• July 25 – James I of Scotland
• November 24 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet
• date unknown
• * Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer
• * Ikkyū, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet
• * Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
• probable – Cymburgis of Masovia, Duchess of Austria

  Deaths

• June 25 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess
• March 17 – Louis, Count of Enghien, Count of Conversano and Brienne
• March 24 – Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile
• June 4 – Mary de Bohun, English countess, married to Henry IV of England
• June 7 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England
• August 27 – Emperor Chōkei of Japan
• September 16 – Antipope Clement VII
• December 28 – Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, basilissa of Epirus
• date unknown
• * John Hawkwood, English mercenary
• * Fazlallah Astarabadi, Persian founder of the mystical Hurufism sect
• * Sultan Mahmud II of the Delhi Sultanate
• * Former King Gongyang of Goryeo