- 1392
Year 1392 was a
leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events
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December 16 -Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu, in order to end the "nanboku-cho" period of conflict between the Northern and Southern imperial courts.
*Goryeo Revolution 1388-1392: In present-dayKorea , rebel leader GeneralYi Seonggye with the support of theMing overthrows King Gongyang and crowns himself King Taejo, ending the Goryeo Dynasty and establishing theJoseon Dynasty . King Gongyang is exiled and later secretly murdered.
*Taejo of Joseon turns the fortress and trade center atSeoul into capital.
* KingJogaila ofPoland andLithuania appoints his cousinVytautas the Great as regent of Lithuania in return for Vytautas giving up his claim to the Lithuanian throne. Vytautas replaces Jogaila's unpopular brotherSkirgaila as regent.
* KingCharles VI of France , later known as Charles the Mad, begins experiencing bouts ofpsychosis which will continue throughout his life.
* Muhammed VII succeeds Yusuf II asNasrid Sultan ofGranada (now southernSpain ).
*Franciscan friarJames of Jülich is boiled alive for impersonating a bishop and ordaining his own priests.
* QueenMary of Sicily defeats an army of rebel barons.
* William le Scrope succeeds William II de Montacute asKing of Mann .
* Seoan mac Pilib succeeds Tomas mor mac Mathghamhna as King of East Breifne in present day north-centralIreland .
* The city ofAfyonkarahisar (now in westernTurkey ) is conquered by SultanBeyazid I of theOttoman Empire .
* Louis de Valois is created the 1stDuke of Orléans , the second time this title is created.
*Erfurt University is founded inErfurt , centralGermany .
*Penistone Grammar School , later to be one of the first community comprehensive schools in England, is founded nearBarnsley ,England .
*Each family holding colonized land inAnhui province has to plant 200 each ofmulberry ,jujube andpersimmon trees.
*Entire military force of China - 1.2 million men, with 531,000 on the northern frontier inChina .Births
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February 3 -Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (d.1455 )
*Alain Chartier , French poet and political writer (approximate date; d. c.1430 )
*Flavio Biondo , Italian humanist and historian (d.1463 )
*John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (d.1432 )
*Filippo Maria Visconti , Duke of Milan (d.1447 )Deaths
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Abbot Methodius of Peshnosha,Eastern Orthodox saint
*Jeong Mong-ju ,Goryeo diplomat and poet (b.1337 )
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