1399

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Years: 1396 1397 1398 - 1399 - 1400 1401 1402
Decades: 1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s
Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

1399 by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
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Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**1399 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1399 MCCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2152
Armenian calendar	848 ԹՎ ՊԽԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-445 – -444
Buddhist calendar	1943
Chinese calendar	4035/4095-11-24 (戊寅年十一月廿四日) — to — 4036/4096-12-4 (己卯年十二月初四日)
Ethiopian calendar	1391 – 1392
Hebrew calendar	5159 – 5160
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1454 – 1455
- Shaka Samvat	1321 – 1322
- Kali Yuga	4500 – 4501
Holocene calendar	11399
Iranian calendar	777 – 778
Islamic calendar	801 – 802
Japanese calendar	Ōei 6 (応永6年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2059 (皇紀2059年)
- Jōmon Era	11399
Julian calendar	1444
Korean calendar	3732
Thai solar calendar	1942
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[edit] Events

February 3 - Death of John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II of England and father of Henry Bolingbroke.
- Richard II cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's land.
- While Richard II is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.
- After regaining his power, Henry Bolingbroke is urged to take the crown from the unpopular Richard II. Richard is taken prisoner upon his returns from Ireland and eventually forced to abdicate. Parliament then charges Richard with committing crimes against his subjects.
- September 30 - Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king.
- October 13 - Coronation of Henry IV of England.
- Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
Faraj succeeds his father, Barquq, as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt.
- Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire invades Mamluk occupied Syria. A rift forms between Sultan Bayezid and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who also wanted to conquer Syria.
August 12 - Battle of the Vorskla River: Mongol Golden Horde forces led by Khan Temur Qutlugh and emir Edigu annihilate a crusading army led by former Golden Horde Khan Tokhtamysh and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania.
Ladislas regains the throne of Naples after overthrowing King Louis II.
King Jogaila becomes sole ruler of Poland after the death of his co-ruling wife, Queen Jadwiga.
Abu Said Uthman III succeeds Abdullah as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
The Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece) resists an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
November 1 - Accession of John VI, Duke of Brittany