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Year 1391 (MCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • June 6 – Anti-Jewish pogroms erupt in Seville, Spain. Many thousands of Jews are massacred and the violence spreads throughout Spain and Portugal.
  • July 18 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River – Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present day southeast Russia.
  • August 5 – Anti-Jewish riots spread to Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. Many Jews leave Barcelona after the following massacres, though a large number remain in the city.

    • Date unknown

  • 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).
  • Stephen Dabiša succeeds Stephen 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.
  • Vytautas the Great, claimant to the throne 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.
  • The University of Ferrara is founded at the Italian Peninsula.
  • Ming government orders 50 million trees planted in Nanjing area.

    • Births

  • October 31 – Edward, King of Portugal (d. 1438)
  • November 6 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
  • Gedun Drub, 1st Dalai Lama (d. 1474)
  • Thomas West, 2nd Baron West (d. 1415)

    • Deaths

  • January 16 – Muhammed V of Granada, Emir (b. 1338)
  • February 16 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1332)
  • March 10 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia (b. 1338)
  • November 1 – Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (b. 1360)
  • Gaston III, Count of Foix, co-prince of Andorra

    • References

    1391 Wikipedia
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