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Consecration of Benedict XIII.

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

Events

January–December

• February 28 – 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.
• June 11 – The Venetians take over possession of Argos, from Despot Theodore I Palaiologos.
• September 17 – King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.
• September 28 – Antipope Benedict XIII is elected to succeed Antipope 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).
• December 6 – The astronomical clock of St. Nicholas Church in Stralsund is finished and signed by Nikolaus Lilienfeld.

Date unknown

• The Ottomans conquer Thessaly (now eastern Greece) and begin an eight-year siege of Constantinople, in the Byzantine Empire. In the same year, they begin building the Anadoluhisarı fortress to defend themselves during the siege.
• Ashikaga Yoshimitsu retires as shōgun 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-Mhic-Thriúin: 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.
• 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.
• Abd al-Aziz II succeeds Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II, as ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in present-day Tunisia.
• 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.

Births

• March 4 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d. 1460)
• June 4 – Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430)
• July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (d. 1441)
• July 25 – James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
• November 24 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (d. 1449)
  • Ikkyū, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (d. 1481)
  • Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (d. 1415)
• probable – Cymburgis of Masovia, Duchess of Austria

Deaths

• June 25 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess (b. 1347)
• March 17 – Louis, Count of Enghien, Count of Conversano and Brienne
• March 24 – Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile
• June 4 – Mary de Bohun, English countess, married to Henry IV of England
• June 7 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1366)
• August 27 – Emperor Chōkei of Japan (b. 1343)
• September 16 – Antipope Clement VII (b. 1342)
• December 28 – Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, basilissa of Epirus (b. 1350)
• date unknown
  • John Hawkwood, English mercenary (b. 1320)
  • Fazlallah Astarabadi, Persian founder of the mystical Hurufism sect (executed)
  • Sultan Mahmud II of the Delhi Sultanate
  • Former King Gongyang of Goryeo (b. 1345)