What happened in1394

Year 1394 (MCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

September 17 – King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.
September 28 – Pope Benedict XIII succeeds Pope Clement VII.
October 10 – Battle of Karanovasa – Wallachia (now southern Romania) resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.
November 29 – The capital city of the Joseon Dynasty in present-day Korea is moved from Gaegyeong (now Gaeseong) to Hanseong (now Seoul).

The Ottomans 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.
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.

King Richard II

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 Ottomans 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 20 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.
The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China orders the Ministry of Public Works to issue a public notice that every 100 households in the lijia system are to set aside 2 mu (1,390 m²) of land for planting mulberry and jujube trees.

March 4 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d. 1460)
July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
November 24 – Charles, duc d'Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
December 10 – King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
date unknown
- Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (d. 1449)
- Cymburgis of Masovia, Duchess of Austria
- Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (d. 1481)
- Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (d. 1415)

Sultan Mahmud II of Delhi