1399

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s
Years:	1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 1401 1402

1399 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1399 MCCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2152
Armenian calendar	848 ԹՎ ՊԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6149
Balinese saka calendar	1320–1321
Bengali calendar	806
Berber calendar	2349
English Regnal year	22 Ric. 2 – 1 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1943
Burmese calendar	761
Byzantine calendar	6907–6908
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4096 or 3889     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4097 or 3890
Coptic calendar	1115–1116
Discordian calendar	2565
Ethiopian calendar	1391–1392
Hebrew calendar	5159–5160
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1455–1456
- Shaka Samvat	1320–1321
- Kali Yuga	4499–4500
Holocene calendar	11399
Igbo calendar	399–400
Iranian calendar	777–778
Islamic calendar	801–802
Japanese calendar	Ōei 6 (応永６年)
Javanese calendar	1313–1314
Julian calendar	1399 MCCCXCIX
Korean calendar	3732
Minguo calendar	513 before ROC 民前513年
Nanakshahi calendar	−69
Thai solar calendar	1941–1942
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1525 or 1144 or 372     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1526 or 1145 or 373

Henry IV of England

Year 1399 (MCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January – Timur the Lame captures and sacks Haridwar.
• February 3 – John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II of England and father of Henry Bolingbroke, dies.
• March 18 – Richard II of England cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's lands.
• July 4 – While Richard II of England is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated lands.
• August 6 – Prince of Yan (Zhu Di) of China starts a rebellion in Beijing.
• August 12 – Battle of the Vorskla River: Mongol Golden Horde forces, led by Khan Temür Qutlugh and Emir Edigu, annihilate a crusading army led by former Golden Horde Khan Tokhtamysh, and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania.
• August 19 – Richard II of England is taken prisoner upon his return from Ireland.
• September 29 – Having regained his father's lands, Henry Bolingbroke is urged to take the crown from the unpopular Richard II of England. Parliament charges Richard II with committing crimes against his subjects and eventually forces him to abdicate.
• September 30 – Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king of England.
• October 13 – Henry IV of England is crowned.
• October 19 – Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
• November 1 – John V, Duke of Brittany begins his reign.

Date unknown

• Faraj succeeds his father, Barquq, as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt.
• Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire invades Mamluk-occupied Syria. A rift forms between Sultan Bayezid and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who also wanted to conquer Syria.
• Ladislaus regains the throne of Naples, after overthrowing King Louis II.
• King Jogaila becomes sole ruler of Poland, after the death of his co-ruling wife, Queen Jadwiga.
• Abu Said Uthman III succeeds Abdullah, as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
• The Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece) resists an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
• Traditional foundation date of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, which survives until 1950.
• Iuga becomes prince of Moldavia

Births

• March 16 – Xuande Emperor of China (d. 1435)
• June 26 – John, Count of Angoulême (d. 1467)
• date unknown
  • William II Canynges, English merchant (approximate date; d. 1474)
  • Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1468)
  • Rogier van der Weyden, Dutch painter (or 1400)

Deaths

John of Gaunt died 3 February

Jadwiga of Poland died 17 July

• January 4 – Nicholas Eymerich, Catalan theologian and inquisitor
• February 3 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)
• March 24 – Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b. c. 1320)
• July 13 – Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
• July 17 – Queen Jadwiga of Poland (b. 1374)
• August 12 – Demetrius I Starshy, Prince of Trubczewsk (in battle) (b. 1327)
• August 15 – Ide Pedersdatter Falk, Danish noblewoman (b. 1358)
• August 26 – Mikhail II, Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1333)
• September 22 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
• October 3 – Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (b. c.1366)
• October 5 – Raymond of Capua, Italian Dominic friar and venerated Christian (b. 1330)
• November 1 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
• date unknown
  • Spytek z Melsztyna, Polish nobleman
  • William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (b. 1350)
  • Sultan Barquq of Egypt
  • Trần Ngung, former ruler of Trần dynasty Vietnam (forced to commit suicide)
  • Stephen I of Moldavia