1394

1394 (MCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1394th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 394th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 14th century, and the 5th year of the 1390s decade. As of the start of 1394, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1391 1392 1393 – 1394 – 1395 1396 1397

1394 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1394 MCCCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2147
Armenian calendar	843 ԹՎ ՊԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6144
Balinese saka calendar	1315–1316
Bengali calendar	801
Berber calendar	2344
English Regnal year	17 Ric. 2 – 18 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1938
Burmese calendar	756
Byzantine calendar	6902–6903
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4090 or 4030     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4091 or 4031
Coptic calendar	1110–1111
Discordian calendar	2560
Ethiopian calendar	1386–1387
Hebrew calendar	5154–5155
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1450–1451
- Shaka Samvat	1315–1316
- Kali Yuga	4494–4495
Holocene calendar	11394
Igbo calendar	394–395
Iranian calendar	772–773
Islamic calendar	796–797
Japanese calendar	Meitoku 5 / Ōei 1 (応永元年)
Javanese calendar	1308–1309
Julian calendar	1394 MCCCXCIV
Korean calendar	3727
Minguo calendar	518 before ROC 民前518年
Nanakshahi calendar	−74
Thai solar calendar	1936–1937
Tibetan calendar	阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 1520 or 1139 or 367     — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 1521 or 1140 or 368

Events

• Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales.

Births

• November 24 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet