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1389

Year 1389 was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .

EVENTS

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.

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.

June 28 - Battle Of Kosovo between Serbs and Ottomans. Both Emperor Murad I and the Serbian Prince Lazar were killed in battle.

--- Change of Emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Murad I ( 1359 -1389) to his son, Beyazid I (1389- 1402 )

--- Stefan III succeeds his father as ruler of Serbia.

November 2 - Pope Boniface IX succeeds Pope Urban VI as the 203rd Pope .

Hadji II is restored as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt after overthrowing Sultan Barquq .

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 .

Vasili I becomes Grand Prince Of Moscow after the death of his father, Dmitri Donskoi .

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

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 24 - John VI, Duke Of Brittany (d. 1442 )

John Of Lancaster , son of Henry IV Of England (d. 1435 ) - already listed above -->

Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki , Polish bishop and statesman (d. 1455 )

Antoninus Of Florence , Italian archbishop

DEATHS

May 19 - Dmitri Donskoi , Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350 )

June 28 - Murad I , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1319 )

June 28 - Prince Lazar , Prince of Serbia (b. 1329 )

June 28 - Miloš Obilić , Serbian knight

October 15 - Pope Urban VI (b. 1318 )

Isabella, Countess Of Fife (b. 1320 )

Hayam Wuruk , ruler of the Majapahit Empire (b. 1334 )

Former King Chang Of Goryeo (assassinated)

Former King Gongyang Of Goryeo (assassinated)

Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II of Delhi (murdered)