- 1395
Year 1395 was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1395
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May 17 -Battle of Rovine : With the help of theHungarians ,Wallacia resists an invasion by theOttomans and theirSerb and Bulgarian vassals.
*Tokhtamysh-Timur war :Timur defeatsTokhtamysh of theGolden Horde at theVolga . The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
*Mary of Hungary dies, ending of the reign ofHungary by theCapet-Anjou family. Her co-reigning estranged husband, King Sigismund, becomes sole ruler of Hungary.
* SultanBayezid I of theOttoman Empire beheads Emperor Ivan Shishman of Ottoman-occupied easternBulgaria after Shishman is accused of collaborating with theWallachia ns during the1394 Battle of Karanovasa .
*Jelena Gruba is elected as Queen of Bosnia after the death of her husband, KingStjepan Dabiša . However, after Stjepan's death most of the Bosnian land is taken by King Sigismund ofHungary .
*Huitzilíhuitl succeeds his father,Acamapichtli , as ruler of theAztecs .
* Albert IV succeeds his father, Albert III, as Duke of Austria.
* The Principality ofMonaco expels their Genoese occupiers and Jean I and Louis are crowned as joint Lords of Monaco. Later in the year, the Genoese regain control and depose the Lords.
* Rama Ratchathirat succeeds Ramesuan as King of theAyutthaya kingdom (now southernThailand ).
* Muhammad II succeeds Yûsuf I as ruler of theZiyanid Dynasty in present-day westernAlgeria .
* TheDuchy of Milan is created after LordGian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan buys the title of Duke from Wenceslaus, the Holy Roman Emperor.
* Battle of Cruachain: The Kingdom of Ui Falighe (now inIreland ) resists an English invasion.
* Bunei succeeds his father,Satto , as King ofChūzan (now central Okinawa,Japan ).
* TheGwanghwamun gate and theJogyesa temple are built in present-daySeoul .Births
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January 11 -Michele of Valois , daughter of Charles VI of France (d.1422 )
*March 18 -John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter , English military leader (d.1447 )
*September 7 -Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr , English politician (d.1427 )
*Fra Angelico , Italian painter (d.1455 )
*Niccolò Da Conti , Italian merchant and explorer (d.1469 )
*George of Trebizond , Greek philosopher and scholar (d.1484 )
*William Waynflete , English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (d.1486 )Deaths
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March 13 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
*August 29 - DukeAlbert III of Austria (b.1349 )
*Acamapichtli , Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
* Queen Mary, co-ruler of Hungary
*Prince Marko , Serbian leader
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