1391 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s 1370s 1380s – 1390s – 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1388 1389 1390 – 1391 – 1392 1393 1394

Events

July 18 – Tokhtamysh-Timur War: Battle of the Kondurcha River – Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
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).
Stjepan Dabiša succeeds his uncle, Stefan 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.
August 5 – Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. Many Jews leave Barcelona after the following massacres, though a large number remain in the city.
Vytautas the Great, claimant to the thrown 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.
University of Ferrara is founded in present-day Italy.