1396

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Centuries:	13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades:	1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1393 1394 1395 - 1396 - 1397 1398 1399

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Year 1396 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1396

May 19 - Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon (now north-east Spain).
September - The Battle of the North Inch takes place in Perth, Scotland.
September 25 - Battle of Nicopolis: The Ottomans defeat a joint crusade by Hungary, France, the Holy Roman Empire, England and Wallacia, led by King Sigismund of Hungary. This is the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages.
November 24 - Transit of Venus - the last not to be part of a pair. Possibly observed by Aztec astronomers.
November 29 - Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, marries Joan Beaufort.
The Ottomans capture the Bulgarian fortress of Vidin and Tsar Ivan Sratsimir, ending the Second Bulgarian Empire. The Bulgarian state is reestablished in 1878 as the Principality of Bulgaria.
Temporary peace is declared between England and France with the marriage of Richard II of England and Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.
France conquers the Republic of Genoa.
After a 14-year period of interregnum, Peter of Saint Superan is declared as ruler of the Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece).
In the "Battle of the Thirty", a mass trial by combat, the Clan Cameron defeat the Clan MacKintosh on the North Inch of Perth, Scotland.
Queen Margaret of Norway, Denmark and Sweden makes her adopted son Eric of Pomerania joint ruler of Sweden. Eric had already been made joint ruler of Norway.
Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
Timur appoints his son Miran Shah as Timurid viceroy of Azerbaijan.
The Kartid Dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah, son of Timur Lenk.
Philibert de Naillac succeeds Juan Fernández de Heredia as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
The Ulu Camii mosque is built in Bursa by the Ottomans.
The Ming Dynasty court of China sends two envoys, Qian Guxun and Li Sicong, to the Ava Kingdom of Burma and the Tai polity of the Mong Mao in order to resolve a dispute between these two. The travels of the Chinese ambassadors are recorded in the historical text of the Bai Yi Zhuan.
Tamerlane orders the construction of a garden in a meadow, House of Flowers.
Peasants in the present-day provinces of Hunan and Hupeh in the east plant 84 million fruit trees.
Taejo of Joseon ends to rule.

**1396 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1396 MCCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2149
Armenian calendar	845 ԹՎ ՊԽԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-448 – -447
Berber calendar	2346
Buddhist calendar	1940
Burmese calendar	758
Chinese calendar	4032/4092-11-20 (乙亥年十一月二十日) — to — 4033/4093-12-1 (丙子年十二月初一日)
Coptic calendar	1112 – 1113
Ethiopian calendar	1388 – 1389
Hebrew calendar	5156 – 5157
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1451 – 1452
- Shaka Samvat	1318 – 1319
- Kali Yuga	4497 – 4498
Holocene calendar	11396
Iranian calendar	774 – 775
Islamic calendar	798 – 799
Japanese calendar	Ōei 3 (応永3年)
Korean calendar	3729
Thai solar calendar	1939
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