1390

Year 1390 (MCCCXC) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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1390 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1390 MCCCXC
Ab urbe condita	2143
Armenian calendar	839 ԹՎ ՊԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6140
Balinese saka calendar	1311–1312
Bengali calendar	796–797
Berber calendar	2340
English Regnal year	13 Ric. 2 – 14 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1934
Burmese calendar	752
Byzantine calendar	6898–6899
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4087 or 3880 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4088 or 3881
Coptic calendar	1106–1107
Discordian calendar	2556
Ethiopian calendar	1382–1383
Hebrew calendar	5150–5151
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1446–1447
- Shaka Samvat	1311–1312
- Kali Yuga	4490–4491
Holocene calendar	11390
Igbo calendar	390–391
Iranian calendar	768–769
Islamic calendar	792–793
Japanese calendar	Kōō 2 / Meitoku 1 (明徳元年)
Javanese calendar	1303–1304
Julian calendar	1390 MCCCXC
Korean calendar	3723
Minguo calendar	522 before ROC 民前522年
Nanakshahi calendar	−78
Thai solar calendar	1932–1933
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 1516 or 1135 or 363 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) 1517 or 1136 or 364

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Events

January 19 – The Treaty of Lyck confirms an alliance between Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights, in the Lithuanian Civil War against Vytautas's cousin, Jogaila.
January 23 – Ko Cheng succeeds Che Bong Nga, as King of Champa (now eastern Vietnam).^[1]
February 16 – At Heidelberg (now in Germany) Ruprecht II] of the House of Wittelsbach becomes the new Elector of the Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire upon the death of his uncle, Rupert I.^[2]
March 20 – Manuel III succeeds his father, Alexios III, as Emperor of Trebizond (now north eastern Turkey).^[3]
April 14 – John VII Palaiologos overthrows his grandfather, John V Palaiologos, as Byzantine Emperor.
April 19 – Robert III succeeds his father, Robert II, as King of Scotland.
May 26 – Lithuanian Civil War: The Treaty of Königsberg is signed in Königsberg, between Samogitian nobles and representatives of the Teutonic Knights.^[4]
June 7 – Construction begins on San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.^[5]

August 31 – Nasir ud din Muhammad Shah III overthrows his brother, Abu Bakr Shah, as Sultan of Delhi.^[6]
September 11 – Lithuanian Civil War: The coalition of Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights begins a 5-week siege of Vilnius. The Duke of Hereford (the future King Henry IV of England) is among the western European knights serving with the coalition.^[7]
September 12 – King Richard II of England summons the English parliament, directing that the members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons assemble at Westminster on November 3.
September 17 – John VII Palaiologos seeks refuge with the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, after John V Palaiologos is restored by his son, Manuel, and the Republic of Venice.
October 9 – Henry III succeeds his father, John I, as King of Castile and León.
November 12 – The 18th Parliament of King Richard II opens at Westminster, and the House of Commons elects Sir James Pickering as its Speaker of the House.
December 3 – King Richard II of England gives royal assent to numerous laws passed as the English Parliament adjourns after a three-week session, having passed numerous laws, including the Pardon of Offences Act (requiring the specification of the offense for which the person is being pardoned by the King) and the Enforcement of the Statute of Provisors Act providing forfeiture of the office for certain violations.

Fall of Philadelphia– The Ottomans take Philadelphia, the last Byzantine enclave of any significance in Anatolia.
Barquq is restored as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, after overthrowing Sultan Hadji II.
Sikandar But-shikan succeeds Sikandar Shah, as Sultan of Kashmir.
Mahmud succeeds Sandaki as Mansa of the Mali Empire, restoring the Keita dynasty.
N'Diklam Sare succeeds Sare N'Dyaye, as ruler of the Jolof Empire (now part of Senegal).
The Kingdom of Kaffa is established in present day Ethiopia (approximate date).
Templo Mayor, the main temple of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), is built.
The Candi Surawana Temple is built in the Majapahit Kingdom (now Indonesia).

October 3 – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447)
December 27 – Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
date unknown
- Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, son of Huitzilihuitl (d. 1469)^[8]
probable
- John Dunstaple, English composer (d. 1453)
- Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman and rebel leader (d. 1436)
- Contessina de' Bardi, politically active Florentine woman (d. 1473)
- Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (d. 1441)