• Glendalough Monestary was destroyed.
  
• Mount Grace Priory, a Carthusian Charterhouse, was founded.
  
• Timur invades Afghanistan and captures Kabul; invades India and sacks Delhi.
  
• Continuation of the Hundred Years War.
  
• Continuation of the Great Schism of Western Christianity, which began in 1377.
  

Those who ruled:

• Albert, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing, Count of Holland and Hainaut, from 1347 to 1404
  
• Barquq, Sultan of Egypt, from 1390 to 1399
  
• Beyazid I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1389 to 1402
  
• Pope Boniface IX, Bishop of Rome, from 1389 to 1404
  
• Charles VI, King of France, from 1380 to 1422
  
• Go-Komatsu, Emperor of Japan, from 1392 to 1412
  
• Henry III, House of Trastamara, King of Castile and Leon, from 1390 to 1406
  
• Hongwu, Emperor of China, Ming Dynasty, from 1368 to 1398
  
• Jianwen, Emperor of China, Ming Dynasty, from 1398 to 1402
  
• John V, Duke of Brittany, from 1345 to 1399
  
• Ladislas of Naples, King of Naples, King of Jerusalem, King of Sicily, King of Hungary, from 1386 to 1414
  
• Louis, Lord of Monaco, House of Grimaldi, from 1395 to 1402
  
• Manuel II, Byzantine Empire, from 1391 to 1425
  
• Martin I, King of Aragon and Valencia, Count of Barcelona, House of Barcelona, from 1396 to 1410
  
• Richard II, King of England, from 1377 to 1399
  
• Taejo, King of Korea, Joseon Dynasty, from 1392 to 1398
  
• Jeongjong, King of Korea, Joseon Dynasty, from 1398 to 1400
  
• Vladislav II, King of Poland, Jagiellon Dynasty, from 1386 to 1434
  
• Wenceslaus, House of Luxembourg, King of the Romans, from 1378 to 1400
  

Those who were born:

• Xuande, Emperor of China, February 25
  
• Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana, August 19
  
• Johann Gutenberg
  

Those who died:

• Blanche d'Evreux, Queen of France (born in 1333)
  
• January 31, Suko, Emperor of Japan (born in 1334)
  
• February 3, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (born in 1340)
  
• March 24, Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk (born in 1320)
  
• June 24, Hongwu, Emperor of China, Ming Dynasty (born in 1328)
  
• July 20, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (born in 1374)
  
• September 9, James I, King of Armenia and King of Cyprus (born in 1334)
  

1397 - 1398 - 1399

14th century