This article is about the year 1397.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
Decades: | 1360s 1370s 1380s – 1390s – 1400s 1410s 1420s |
Years: | 1394 1395 1396 – 1397 – 1398 1399 1400 |
1397 by topic | |
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Art and literature | |
1397 in poetry | |
Gregorian calendar | 1397 MCCCXCVII |
Ab urbe condita | 2150 |
Armenian calendar | 846 ԹՎ ՊԽԶ |
Assyrian calendar | 6147 |
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) 4093 or 4033 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4094 or 4034 |
Coptic calendar | 1113–1114 |
Discordian calendar | 2563 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1389–1390 |
Hebrew calendar | 5157–5158 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1453–1454 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1319–1320 |
- Kali Yuga | 4498–4499 |
Holocene calendar | 11397 |
Igbo calendar | 397–398 |
Iranian calendar | 775–776 |
Islamic calendar | 799–800 |
Japanese calendar | Ōei 4 (応永4年) |
Julian calendar | 1397 MCCCXCVII |
Korean calendar | 3730 |
Minguo calendar | 515 before ROC 民前515年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1939–1940 |
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 and Greenland) and Sweden (including Finland).
- 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.[1]
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)
References
- ^ "Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts _ Hospitals". Retrieved 8 November 2011.