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Year 1394 was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .

EVENTS OF 1394

September 17 - King Charles VI Of France orders the expulsion of all Jew s from France .

September 28 - Anti-Pope Benedict XIII succeeds Anti-Pope Clement VII .

Battle Of Karanovasa - Wallachia (now southern Romania ) resists an invasion by the Ottoman s and their Serb and Bulgaria n vassals.

The Ottoman s begin an eight-year siege of Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire .

---The Anadoluhisarı fortress is built by the Ottomans to defend themselves during the siege.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu retires as Shogun of Japan and is succeeded by his son, Ashikaga Yoshimochi .

The capital city of the Joseon Dynasty in present-day Korea is moved from Gaegyeong (now Gaeseong ) to Hanseong (now Seoul ).

--- Gyeongbokgung Palace and the Jongmyo royal ancestral shrine are built in Hanseong (now Seoul ).

After the death of Sultan Mahmud II, civil war breaks out in the Delhi Sultanate , splitting the state between east and west.

Battle Of Ros-mic-Triuin - the Kingdom of Leinster , led by King Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, defeats an invading army from England , led by King Richard II Of England and Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl Of March .

Ştefan I succeeds Roman I as Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova and eastern Romania ).

Abu Zayyan II succeeds his brother, Abul Hadjdjadj I, as ruler of the Abdalwadid dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria .

Yûsuf I succeeds Abd ar-Rahmân II as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty in present-day western Algeria .

The Ottoman s conquer Thessaly (now eastern Greece ).

Abd al-Aziz II succeeds Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II as ruler of the Hafsid Dynasty in present-day Tunisia .

Richard II Of England grants Geoffrey Chaucer twenty pounds a year for life for his services as a diplomat and Clerk of The King's Works.

The Allgäuer Brauhaus brewery is founded in present-day Germany .

BIRTHS

March 4 - Prince Henry The Navigator , Portuguese patron of exploration (died 1460 )

July 12 - Ashikaga Yoshinori , Japanese shogun (died 1441 )

November 24 - Charles, Duc D'Orléans , French poet (died 1465 )

December 10 - King James I Of Scotland (d. 1437 )

Ulugh Beg , Timurid ruler and astronomer (died 1449 )

Cymburgis Of Masovia , Duchess of Austria

Ikkyu , Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (died 1481 )

Michael De La Pole, 3rd Earl Of Suffolk (died 1415 )

DEATHS

June 4 - Mary De Bohun , wife of Henry IV Of England

June 7 - Anne Of Bohemia , queen of Richard II Of England (plague) (born 1366 )

July 24 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl Of Buchan , Scottish prince (born 1343 )

August 27 - Emperor Chokei Of Japan , former Emperor (born 1343 )

September 16 - Avignon Pope Clement VII (born 1342 )

John De Ros, 6th Baron De Ros (born 1365 )

John Devereux 2nd Baron Devereux

Louis Of Enghien , Count of Conversano and Brienne

John Hawkwood , English mercenary (born 1320 )

Constance Of Castile , claimant to the throne of Castile

Fazlallah Astarabadi , founder of the mystical Hurufism sect (executed)

Sultan Mahmud II of Delhi

Former King Gongyang Of Goryeo (born 1345 )