1393

Year 1393 (MCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s
Years:	1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396

1393 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1393 MCCCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2146
Armenian calendar	842 ԹՎ ՊԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6143
Balinese saka calendar	1314–1315
Bengali calendar	799–800
Berber calendar	2343
English Regnal year	16 Ric. 2 – 17 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1937
Burmese calendar	755
Byzantine calendar	6901–6902
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4090 or 3883     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4091 or 3884
Coptic calendar	1109–1110
Discordian calendar	2559
Ethiopian calendar	1385–1386
Hebrew calendar	5153–5154
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1449–1450
- Shaka Samvat	1314–1315
- Kali Yuga	4493–4494
Holocene calendar	11393
Igbo calendar	393–394
Iranian calendar	771–772
Islamic calendar	795–796
Japanese calendar	Meitoku 4 (明徳４年)
Javanese calendar	1307–1308
Julian calendar	1393 MCCCXCIII
Korean calendar	3726
Minguo calendar	519 before ROC 民前519年
Nanakshahi calendar	−75
Thai solar calendar	1935–1936
Tibetan calendar	阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1519 or 1138 or 366     — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 1520 or 1139 or 367

Events

• January 28 – Bal des Ardents: Four members of the court of Charles VI of France die in a fire, at a masquerade ball.^[1]
• March 23 – Bohemian priest John of Nepomuk is killed in Prague by being thrown off Charles Bridge into the Vltava river, allegedly at the behest of king Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Nepomuk later will be declared a saint.^[2]
• March 29 - In central Persia, the Muzzafarid Empire, led by Shah Mansur, rebels against their Timurid occupiers. The rebellion is squashed and the Shah is executed along with the whole Muzaffarid nobility, ending the Muzaffarid dynasty in Persia.^[3]
• November 30 - Konrad von Jungingen succeeds Konrad von Wallenrode, as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.^{[4] [5]}

Date unknown

• George VII succeeds his popular father, Bagrat V, as King of Georgia.^[6]
• Abdul Aziz II becomes Sultan of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco, after the death of Sultan Abu Al-Abbas.^[7]
• Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini succeeds Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, as Prince of Taranto (now southeastern Italy).^[8]
• Samsenethai succeeds his father, Fa Ngum, as King of Lan Xang (now Laos).^[9]
• King James I of Cyprus inherits the title of King of Armenia, after the death of his distant cousin Leo VI (although the Mamluk conquerors from Egypt remain the true rulers).^[10]
• A Ming dynasty Chinese record states that 720,000 sheets of toilet paper (two by three ft. in size) alone have been produced for the various members of the imperial court at Beijing, while the Imperial Bureau of Supplies also reports that 15,000 sheets of toilet paper alone have been designated for the royal family (made of fine soft yellow tissue and perfumed).^[11]
• Bosnia resists an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
• The Ottoman Turks capture Turnovgrad (now Veliko Tarnovo), the capital city of east Bulgaria. Emperor Ivan Shishman is allowed to remain as puppet ruler of east Bulgaria.
• Despite his treaty with the king of Poland, Roman I of Moldavia supports Fyodor Koriatovych against the king. Losing the battle, he will also lose the throne of Moldavia the next year.
• Sikander Shah I succeeds Muhammad Shah III, as Sultan of Delhi. Sikander Shah I is succeeded two months later by Mahmud II.
• Abu Thabid II succeeds Abu Tashufin II, as ruler of the Abdalwadid dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria. Abu Thabid is succeeded in the same year by his brother, Abul Hadjdjadj I.
• Maelruanaidh MacDermot succeeds Aedh MacDermot, as King of Magh Luirg in north-central Ireland.
• King Stjepan Dabiša of Bosnia signs the Contract of Djakovice, establishing peace with King Sigismund of Hungary.^[12]
• Byzantium loses Thessaly to the growing Ottoman Empire.^[13]
• In her aim to form The Kalmar Union, Queen Margaret I of Denmark is laying siege to Stockholm, which is controlled by troops loyal to the former Swedish king Albert of Mecklenburg.^[14][15]

Births

• February 3 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (d. 1455)^[16]
• August 24 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
• December – Margaret of Burgundy, Dauphine of France (d. 1442)
• date unknown
  • John Capgrave, English theologian (d. 1464)
  • Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto (d. 1463)
  • Anna of Moscow, Byzantine empress consort (d. 1417)^[17]
  • Osbern Bokenam, English Augustinian friar and poet
  • Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley
  • Andrea Vendramin, Doge of Venice (d. 1478)
  • Alvise Loredan, Venetian admiral and statesman (d. 1466)

Deaths

• March 7 – Bogislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania (b. c. 1350)
• March 23 – John of Nepomuk, saint
• March 29 - Shah Mansur, Ruler of the Muzaffarids
• June 6 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan, former Pretender to the throne (b. 1359)
• July 23 – Konrad von Wallenrode, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
• July 30 – Alberto d'Este, Lord of Ferrara and Modena (b. 1347)
• August 6 – John de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros (b. 1365)^[18]
• November 29 – King Leo V of Armenia (b. c. 1342)
• date unknown
  • Fa Ngum, founder of the Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang (b. 1316)
  • Valentina Visconti, Queen of Cyprus
  • King Bagrat V of Georgia
  • Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad al-Mustansir, Sultan of the Marinid dynasty in Morocco

References

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7. Ilahiane, Hsain (2006-07-17). Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6490-0.
8. Toomaspoeg, Kristjan (2013). "ORSINI DEL BALZO, Raimondo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 79.
9. Stuart-Fox, Martin (1998). The Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang: Rise and Decline. White Lotus Press.
10. Chris Schabel, "Like God from Heaven, but they don’t call him King. The Rebellion against James I of Cyprus [article]," Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes Année 2013 43 pp. 379-392. https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchyp_0761-8271_2013_num_43_1_1075. Accessed 2025-01-19.
11. Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 1, Paper and Printing. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd.
12. Ćirković, Sima (1964). Историја средњовековне босанске државе (in Serbo-Croatian). Srpska književna zadruga, p. 170.
13. Savvides, Alexis (1998). "Splintered Medieval Hellenism : The Semi-Autonomous State of Thessaly (A.d. 1213/1222 to 1454/1470) and ITS Place in History". Byzantion. 68 (2): 416. JSTOR 44172339. Following the Ottoman capture of Larissa in 1392/1393, the Turkish forces moved southward towards Hellas and invaded the Peloponnese, which had already experienced their initial devastations; the next decades would witness the building-up of local resistance in Thessaly on the part of sections of Greeks, Albanians and Vlachs, who had taken to the mountains
14. Lindkvist, Thomas. Margaret I of Denmark at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon
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16. Richard Lomas (1999). A Power in the Land: The Percys. Tuckwell Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-86232-067-3.
17. Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (1999). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-7876-4080-4.
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