Year 1390 (MCCCXC) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
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January–March
April–June
July–September
- July 1 – The Barbary Crusade begins as the Kingdom of France and the Republic of Genoa attempt to stop the raids of the Barbary pirates by invading the North African region of Ifriqiya and laying siege to Mahdia in what is now Tunisia. Louis II, Duke of Bourbon and Giacomo Fregoso of Genoa bring 6,000 knights and soldiers on 60 ships against 40,000 Muslim defenders led by the Caliph Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II of the Hafsid Sultanate and the Sultan of Tlemcen.
- August 6 – Louis II of Anjou arrives in Naples to rule the Kingdom of Naples (as Luigi II d'Angio) after being appointed by the Antipope John XXIII in France, but King Ladislaus continues to be recognized by supporters of Pope Boniface IX.
- August 31 – Nasir ud din Muhammad Shah III overthrows his brother, Abu Bakr Shah, as Sultan of Delhi.
- September 11 – Lithuanian Civil War: The coalition of Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights begins a 5-week siege of Vilnius. The Duke of Hereford (the future King Henry IV of England) is among the western European knights serving with the coalition.
- September 12 – King Richard II of England summons the English parliament, directing that the members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons assemble at Westminster on November 3.
- September 17 – John VII Palaiologos seeks refuge with the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, after John V Palaiologos is restored by his son, Manuel, and the Republic of Venice.
October–December
- October 1 – The Christian crusaders of France and Genoa lift the siege of Mahdiya after Genoa negotiates a ceasefire and a 10-year armistice. The crusaders return to Genoa after having sustained 274 deaths from combat and from disease.
- October 9 – King Juan, ruler of the Crown of Castile and the Kingdom of León, is fatally injured when he is thrown from his horse while he is participating in an exhibition of horsemanship before a crowd at Alcalá de Henares. The Archbishop of Toledo, Pedro Tenorio, conceals the news of King Juan's death from the public until a regency council can be created for the King's 11-year-old son, Prince Enrique of Trastámara, who is proclaimed as King Enrique III.
- November 2 – The Treaty of Pyzdry is signed between King WÃ
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- November 12 – King Richard II opens at Westminster, and the House of Commons elects Sir James Pickering as its Speaker of the House.
- December 1 –
- Angelo Corraro is named as the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, the Roman Catholic envoy to Byzantium and the Eastern Orthodox Church, by Pope Boniface IX. Corraro is chosen in 1406 as Pope Gregory XII.
- A treaty is signed between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of France at Edinburghand witnessed by Walter Forrester.
- December 3 – King Richard II of England gives royal assent to numerous laws passed as the English Parliament adjourns after a three-week session, having passed numerous laws, including the Pardon of Offences Act (requiring the specification of the offense for which the person is being pardoned by the King) and the Enforcement of the Statute of Provisors Act providing forfeiture of the office for certain violations.
Date unknown
Births
Deaths
- January 26 – Adolph IX, Count of Holstein-Kiel (b.c 1327)
- February 16 – Rupert I, Elector Palatine (b. 1309)
- March 20 – Alexios III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1338)
- April 19 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
- July 8 – Albert of Saxony, Bishop of Halberstadt and German philosopher (b. )
- August 14 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
- September 23 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
- October 9 – King John I of Castile (fall from a horse) (b. 1358)
- September – Towtiwil, Prince of Black Ruthenia
- date unknown
- Sandaki Mari Djata, Mansa of the Mali Empire
- Keratsa of Bulgaria, Byzantine empress consort (b. 1348)
- Sa'ad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah al-Taftazani, Ilkhanate polymath (b. 1322)
- probable – Altichiero, Italian painter (b. 1330)
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