1395
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| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s |
| Years: | 1392 1393 1394 - 1395 - 1396 1397 1398 |
| 1395 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1395 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1395
- May 17 - Battle of Rovine: With the help of the Hungarians, Wallacia resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.
- Tokhtamysh-Timur war: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
- Mary of Hungary dies, ending of the reign of Hungary by the Capet-Anjou family. Her co-reigning estranged husband, King Sigismund, becomes sole ruler of Hungary.
- Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire beheads Emperor Ivan Shishman of Ottoman-occupied eastern Bulgaria after Shishman is accused of collaborating with the Wallachians during the 1394 Battle of Karanovasa.
- Jelena Gruba is elected as Queen of Bosnia after the death of her husband, King Stjepan Dabiša. However, after Stjepan's death most of the Bosnian land is taken by King Sigismund of Hungary.
- Huitzilíhuitl succeeds his father, Acamapichtli, as ruler of the Aztecs.
- Albert IV succeeds his father, Albert III, as Duke of Austria.
- The Principality of Monaco expels their Genoese occupiers and Jean I and Louis are crowned as joint Lords of Monaco. Later in the year, the Genoese regain control and depose the Lords.
- Rama Ratchathirat succeeds Ramesuan as King of the Ayutthaya kingdom (now southern Thailand).
- Muhammad II succeeds Yûsuf I as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty in present-day western Algeria.
- The Duchy of Milan is created after Lord Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan buys the title of Duke from Wenceslaus, the Holy Roman Emperor.
- Battle of Cruachain: The Kingdom of Ui Falighe (now in Ireland) resists an English invasion.
- Bunei succeeds his father, Satto, as King of Chūzan (now central Okinawa, Japan).
- The Gwanghwamun gate and the Jogyesa temple are built in present-day Seoul.
| Gregorian calendar | 1395 MCCCXCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2148 |
| Armenian calendar | 844 ԹՎ ՊԽԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -449 – -448 |
| Berber calendar | 2345 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1939 |
| Burmese calendar | 757 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6903 – 6904 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年十二月初十日 (4031/4091-12-10) — to —
乙亥年十一月十九日(4032/4092-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 1111 – 1112 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1387 – 1388 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5155 – 5156 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1450 – 1451 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1317 – 1318 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4496 – 4497 |
| Holocene calendar | 11395 |
| Iranian calendar | 773 – 774 |
| Islamic calendar | 797 – 798 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 2 (応永2年) |
| Korean calendar | 3728 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1938 |
[edit] Births
- January 11 - Michele of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
- March 18 - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
- September 7 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1427)
- Fra Angelico, Italian painter (d. 1455)
- Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (d. 1469)
- George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher and scholar (d. 1484)
- William Waynflete, English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (d. 1486)
[edit] Deaths
- March 13 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
- August 29 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
- Acamapichtli, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Queen Mary, co-ruler of Hungary
- Prince Marko, Serbian leader
