1395 to 1399

1395

x - Jacques Coeur born, financial adviser to Charles VII of France ? . He ran a variety of businesses and sold luxury goods. He bankrolled Charles' war in1449 with nearly a ton of gold. His gothic mansion at Bourges had the family motto etched in stone: "To valiant hearts nothing is impossible." d. 1456

x - Pisanello, an artist who painted with scrupulous realism. d.1455

x - Russia ? The ikon of Our Lady of Vladimir was brought to Moscow and placed in the Kremlin's Assumption Cathedral for protection against the Mongol invaders under Tamerlane. A monastery, know as Stretenskii, was built on the spot where the Muscovites met the delegation from Vladimir.

1396

c - The tabla, a 600-year-old invention, was evolved from Arabian drums to accompany a fusion of Islamic Qawali singing and Dhrupad music composed for Sanskrit couplets usually recited in temples.

c - The kirana style of Hindustani music began.

x - Crusade of Nicopolis

sep 25 - The last great Christian crusade, led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of Hungary, ended in disaster at the hands of Sultan Bajazet I's Ottoman army at Nicopolis.

1397

x - Paolo Uccello, Italian painter. He painted battle scenes whose tilting spears put linear perspective to dazzling use.d.1475

x - Spaten's roots date back to this time. The company name comes from Munich brewing family Spaeth, which bought a 225 year-old brewery in1622 ran the firm for seven generations.

x - In England ?+ Henry of Lancaster was made Duke of Hereford and then banished from the realm for a presumed conspiracy to murder the Duke of Gloucester.

jan 13 - John of Gaunt married Katherine Rouet.

jun 20 - The Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.

1398

x - China ?+ Jian Wenjee-ahn-one, grandson of Hong Wu rules u.1403

1399

x - Poland Queen Hedwig died in childbirth at age 25.

x - The reign u.1413 of Henry IV of Englandb.1367-d.1413. b.c.1359-d.c.1460 with followers in Wales and the Percy Family in Northumberlandu.1403. He was the first king of the House of Lancaster. During his reign insurrections occurred under Owen Glendower.

x - Chersonesos in the southern Crimean peninsula, the Byzantine world's largest trading outpost, was sacked by the Mongols.

x - John of Gaunt dies and Richard II confiscates his estates;

oct 13 - 100 Years War +¢ Richard II was formally deposed as king.John of Gaunt's son Henry of Lancaster returned to England to claim his inherited lands. He marched with an army into Briston and captured Richard II and claimed the throne. Henry IV of England was crowned.

dec 17 - Tamerlane's Mongols destroyed the army of Mahmud Tughluk, Sultan of Delhi, at Panipat.

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