1391

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1388 1389 1390 – 1391 – 1392 1393 1394

Events

• July 18 – Tokhtamysh-Timur War: Battle of the Kondurcha River – Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
• Manuel II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine Emperor after his father, John V Palaiologos, dies of a nervous breakdown due to his continued humiliation by the Ottoman Empire.
• Yusuf II succeeds Muhammed V as Nasrid Sultan of Granada (now southern Spain).
• Stjepan Dabiša succeeds his uncle, Stefan Tvrtko I, as King of Bosnia.
• Shah Mansur becomes leader of the Timurid occupied Muzaffarid Empire in central Persia.
• A group of Muzaffarids under Zafar Khan Muzaffar establish a new Sultanate at Gujarat in western India.
• August 5 – Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. Many Jews leave Barcelona after the following massacres, though a large number remain in the city.
• Vytautas the Great, claimant to the thrown of Lithuania, forms an alliance with Muscovy.
• Roman I succeeds Petru I as Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova and eastern Romania).
• Konrad von Wallenrode succeeds Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
• Bridget of Sweden is canonized by Pope Boniface IX.
• Ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod sack the Muscovy towns of Zhukotin and Kazan.
• The Chinese invent toilet paper for use by their Emperors.
• Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, takes control of the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands.
• University of Ferrara is founded in present-day Italy.

1391 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1391 MCCCXCI
Ab urbe condita	2144
Armenian calendar	840 ԹՎ ՊԽ
Assyrian calendar	6141
Balinese saka calendar	1312–1313
Bengali calendar	798
Berber calendar	2341
English Regnal year	14 Ric. 2 – 15 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1935
Burmese calendar	753
Byzantine calendar	6899–6900
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4087 or 4027     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4088 or 4028
Coptic calendar	1107–1108
Discordian calendar	2557
Ethiopian calendar	1383–1384
Hebrew calendar	5151–5152
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1447–1448
- Shaka Samvat	1312–1313
- Kali Yuga	4491–4492
Holocene calendar	11391
Igbo calendar	391–392
Iranian calendar	769–770
Islamic calendar	793–794
Japanese calendar	Meitoku 2 (明徳２年)
Javanese calendar	1304–1305
Julian calendar	1391 MCCCXCI
Korean calendar	3724
Minguo calendar	521 before ROC 民前521年
Nanakshahi calendar	−77
Thai solar calendar	1933–1934
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1517 or 1136 or 364     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1518 or 1137 or 365

Births

• October 31 – King Edward of Portugal (†1438)
• November 6 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (died 1425)
• Gedun Drub, 1st Dalai Lama (died 1474)
• Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (died 1472)
• Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (died 1448)
• Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (died 1415)

Deaths

• February 16 – John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (born 1332)
• Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada
• King Stefan Tvrtko I of Bosnia.
• November 1 – Amadeus VII of Savoy (born 1360)
• Nicholas Cabasilas, Byzantine mystic and theological writer