1391

Year 1391 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

* July 18 - Tokhtamysh-Timur War: Battle of the Kondurcha River - Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present day southeast Russia.
* August 5 - Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. Many Jews leave Barcelona after the following , though a large number remain in the city.
* Manuel II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine Emperor after his father, John V Palaiologos, dies of a nervous breakdown due to his continued humiliation by the Ottoman Empire.
* Yusuf II succeeds Muhammed V as Nasrid Sultan of Granada (now southern Spain).
* Stjepan Dabiša succeeds his uncle, Stefan Tvrtko I, as King of Bosnia.
* Shah Mansur becomes leader of the Timurid occupied Muzaffarid Empire in central Persia.
* A group of Muzaffarids under Zafar Khan Muzaffar establish a new Sultanate at Gujarat in western India.
* Vytautas the Great, claimant to the thrown of Lithuania, forms an alliance with Muscovy.
* Roman I succeeds Petru I as Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova and eastern Romania).
* Konrad von Wallenrode succeeds Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
* Bridget of Sweden is canonized by Pope Boniface IX.
* Ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod sack the Muscovy towns of Zhukotin and Kazan.
* The Chinese invent toilet paper for use by their emperors.
* Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, takes control of the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands.
* The University of Ferrara is founded in present-day Italy.
*Ming government orders 50 million trees planted in Nanjing area.

Births

* October 31 - King Edward of Portugal (d. 1438)
* November 6 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
* Gedun Drub, 1st Dalai Lama (d. 1474)
* Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1472)
* Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (d. 1448)
* Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (d. 1415)

Deaths

* February 16 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1332)
* Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada
* King Stefan Tvrtko I of Bosnia
* November 1 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
* Nicholas Cabasilas, Byzantine mystic and theological writer