1389

Year 1389 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

* June 15 - Battle of Kosovo between Serbs and Ottomans: Both Emperor Murad I and the Serbian Prince Lazar are killed in battle. No. 1 date in Serb history.
** Beyazid I (1389-1402) succeeds his father Murad I (1359-1389) as Ottoman Emperor.
** Stefan III succeeds his father as ruler of Serbia.
* February 24 - Queen Margaret of Norway and Denmark defeats Albert of Sweden in battle and becomes ruler of all three kingdoms. Albert is taken prisoner.
*May 19 - Vasili I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow after the death of his father, Dmitri Donskoi.
* November 2 - Pope Boniface IX succeeds Pope Urban VI as the 203rd pope.
* Goryeo Revolution 1388-1392: King Chang of Goryeo is forced from power and replaced by King Gongyang. The ten year-old Chang and his predecessor, U, are both assassinated later in the year.
* Hadji II is restored as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt after overthrowing Sultan Barquq.
* Hundred Years' War: England and France sign a truce, ending the second phase of the war.
* Supported by Antipope John XXIII, Louis II overthrows the underage King Ladislas as King of Naples.
* Wikramawardhana succeeds Hayam Wuruk as ruler of the Majapahit Empire (now Indonesia).
* The unpopular Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II of Delhi is murdered and succeeded by his brother, Abu Baker.
* Biri II succeeds Kade Alunu as King of the Kanem-Bornu Empire (now eastern Chad and Nigeria) and the Empire loses its land in present-day Chad to the Bilala.
* Sandaki overthrows Magha II as Mansa of the Mali Empire.
* Abd ar-Rahmân II succeeds Musa II as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty in present-day western Algeria.
* Abu Tashufin II succeeds his nephew, Abu Hammu II, as ruler of the Abdalwadid Dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.
* Carmo Convent is built in Lisbon.

Births

*March 1 - Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop
* June 20 - John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
* September 27 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
*December 5 - Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki, Polish bishop and statesman (d. 1455)
* December 24 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)

Deaths

* May 19 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
* June 15 (in the Battle of Kosovo)
** Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1319)
** Prince Lazar, Prince of Serbia (b. 1329)
** Miloš Obilić, Serbian knight
* October 15 - Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
*"date unknown"
**Isabella, Countess of Fife (b. 1320)
**Hayam Wuruk, ruler of the Majapahit Empire (b. 1334)
**Former King Chang of Goryeo (assassinated)
**Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II of Delhi (murdered)