1397

	1397 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s 1370s 1380s – 1390s – 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1394 1395 1396 – 1397 – 1398 1399 1400

Year 1397 (MCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

February 10 – John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset.
July 20 – Queen Margaret forms the Kalmar Union, uniting the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland and Greenland) and Sweden (including Finland).
September 29 – John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother Richard II of England.
The Ottomans capture the Vidin Empire, the only remaining independent Bulgarian state. Emperor Ivan Sratsimir of Vidin is taken prisoner and later disappears.
- Constantine II becomes Emperor of Vidin after his father's imprisonment.
Richard II of England attempts to reassert authority over his kingdom by arresting members of a group of powerful barons known as the Lords Appellant.
Temur Qutlugh is crowned as the Khan of Golden Horde with the help of general Edigu. Although, Edigu continues to hold the real power.
Thomas Arundel succeeds William Courtenay as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Richard Whittington (aka Dick Whittington) is elected Lord Mayor of London.
Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery is founded in north-west Russia.
Sretensky Monastery is founded in Moscow.
- Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's brother, is created Duke of Surrey by King Richard.