1397

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

1397 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1397 MCCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2150
Armenian calendar	846 ԹՎ ՊԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	6147
Balinese saka calendar	1318–1319
Bengali calendar	804
Berber calendar	2347
English Regnal year	20 Ric. 2 – 21 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1941
Burmese calendar	759
Byzantine calendar	6905–6906
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4094 or 3887     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4095 or 3888
Coptic calendar	1113–1114
Discordian calendar	2563
Ethiopian calendar	1389–1390
Hebrew calendar	5157–5158
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1453–1454
- Shaka Samvat	1318–1319
- Kali Yuga	4497–4498
Holocene calendar	11397
Igbo calendar	397–398
Iranian calendar	775–776
Islamic calendar	799–800
Japanese calendar	Ōei 4 (応永４年)
Javanese calendar	1311–1312
Julian calendar	1397 MCCCXCVII
Korean calendar	3730
Minguo calendar	515 before ROC 民前515年
Nanakshahi calendar	−71
Thai solar calendar	1939–1940
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1523 or 1142 or 370     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1524 or 1143 or 371

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

Events

January–December

• February 10 – John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset.
• June 6 – Richard Whittington is nominated as Lord Mayor of London for the first time.
• July 20 – Queen Margaret forms the Kalmar Union, uniting the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands) and Sweden (including Finland with the Åland Islands).
• September 29
  • John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother King Richard II of England.
  • Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, John's brother, is created Duke of Surrey by King Richard.
• November 8 – Thomas Arundel, accused of high treason by King Richard II of England, is replaced by Roger Walden as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Date unknown

• 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.
• Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery is founded in north-west Russia.
• Sretensky Monastery is founded in Moscow.
• Establishment of the Università, a form of local government, in Malta.
• Creation of the first hospital of al-Andalus, in Granada.

• Neuhausergasse 4, the brewer of Spaten is listed on the register of Munich breweries.
• Gregory of Tatev writes Book of Questions, a ten-volume encyclopedic work, at the Tatev Monastery, Armenia

Births

• February 21 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1471)
• May 6 – Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)
• August 10 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
• November 15 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
• date unknown
  • Chimalpopoca, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (d. 1427)
  • Tlacaelel, Aztec nobleman (d. 1487)
  • Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1482)
  • Paolo Uccello, Florentine painter (d. 1475)

Deaths

• January 11 – Skirgaila, former Grand Duke of Lithuania
• February 18 – Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (b. 1340)
• April 25 – Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (b. 1350)
• June 3 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
• June 16 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
• September 2 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer
• September 15 – Adam Easton, Catholic cardinal
• September 21 – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)