1397

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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, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands) and Sweden (including Finland with the Åland Islands).
• 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]

• Neuhausergasse 4, the brewer of Spaten is listed on the register of Munich breweries.
• Gregory of Tatev writes Book of Questions, a ten-volume encyclopedic work, at the Tatev Monastery, Armenia

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)

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