1398

Year 1398 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

* Timur conquers the Delhi Sultanate, which had been weakened after 4 years of civil war. Timur's Islamic troops sack the city of Delhi and proceed to massacre hundreds of thousands of the state's Hindu inhabitants.
* Jianwen succeeds his grandfather, Hongwu, as Emperor of Ming Dynasty China.
* King Richard II of England exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (the future Henry IV of England) for 10 years in order to end Henry's feud with Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who is also exiled.
* France withdraws its support for Antipope Benedict XIII.
**An army led by Geoffrey Boucicaut occupies Avignon and starts a 5-year siege of the papal palace.
* The Teutonic Knights recommence their raids of Lithuania.
* The Bosnian nobility dethrone Queen Jelena Gruba and replace her with King Stjepan Ostoja.
* Janus succeeds his father, James I, as King of Cyprus and claimant to the throne of Armenian Cilicia.
* Abdullah succeeds Abu Amir as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
* The Teutonic Knights conquer the island of Gotland, near Sweden, which had previously been run by a group of pirates.
* Martin I of Aragon launches a crusade against the Moors in North Africa.
* Yi Bangsuk, heir to the throne of the Joseon Dynasty in present-day Korea, is murdered during a coup by his older half-brother, Yi Bangwon.
**King Taejo of Joseon abdicates in disgust at his sons' rivalry. Taejo's eldest son Jeongjong succeeds to the throne.
* Trần Ngung is forced to abdicate as ruler of the Tran Dynasty in present-day Vietnam. Trần An succeeds as ruler.
* The Stecknitz Canal is constructed in present-day north Germany (now one of the oldest artificial waterways in the world).
* Glendalough monastery in Wicklow, Ireland is destroyed by English troops.
* Ferapontov Monastery is built in present-day north-west Russia.
* The Munmyo Confucian shrine and Sungkyunkwan University are built in present-day Seoul.
* Mount Grace Priory is established in Yorkshire, England.
* According to some historians, the Scottish explorer Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney reaches North America.

Births

* February 25 - Xuande Emperor of China (d. 1435)
* August 19 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
* Spytek z Melsztyna, Polish nobleman (d. 1439)
* Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press

Deaths

* January 31 - Former Emperor Sukō of Japan (b. 1334)
* March 24 - Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk
* June 24 - Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
* July 20 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
* September 9 - James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
*"date unknown"
**Jeong Dojeon, Korean philosopher
**Blanche d'Évreux, French princess (b. 1333)