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This article is about the year 1391.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1360s 1370s 1380s – 1390s – 1400s 1410s 1420s |
| Years: | 1388 1389 1390 – 1391 – 1392 1393 1394 |
| 1391 by topic | |
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| 1391 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1391 MCCCXCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2144 |
| Armenian calendar | 840 ԹՎ ՊԽ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6141 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -453–-452 |
| Bengali calendar | 798 |
| Berber calendar | 2341 |
| English Regnal year | 14 Ric. 2 – 15 Ric. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1935 |
| Burmese calendar | 753 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6899–6900 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚午年十一月廿六日 (4027/4087-11-26) — to —
辛未年十二月初六日(4028/4088-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 1107–1108 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1383–1384 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5151–5152 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1447–1448 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1313–1314 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4492–4493 |
| Holocene calendar | 11391 |
| Iranian calendar | 769–770 |
| Islamic calendar | 793–794 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3724 |
| Minguo calendar | 521 before ROC 民前521年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1934 |
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Year 1391 (MCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- June 6 – Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Seville, Spain. Many thousands of Jews are massacred and the violence spreads throughout Spain and Portugal.
- 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 spread to Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. Many Jews leave Barcelona after the following massacres, though a large number remain in the city.
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- 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).
- Stephen Dabiša succeeds Stephen 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 throne 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Deaths
- February 16 – John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1332)
- Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada
- King Stephen Tvrtko I of Bosnia
- November 1 – Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
- Nicholas Cabasilas, Byzantine mystic and theological writer
- Gaston III of Foix-Béarn – Count of Foix, co-prince of Andorra
