1392

1392 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1392; MCCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	2145
Armenian calendar	841; ԹՎ ՊԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	6142
Balinese saka calendar	1313–1314
Bengali calendar	798–799
Berber calendar	2342
English Regnal year	15 Ric. 2 – 16 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1936
Burmese calendar	754
Byzantine calendar	6900–6901
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat); 4089 or 3882; — to —; 壬申年 (Water Monkey); 4090 or 3883
Coptic calendar	1108–1109
Discordian calendar	2558
Ethiopian calendar	1384–1385
Hebrew calendar	5152–5153
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1448–1449
- Shaka Samvat	1313–1314
- Kali Yuga	4492–4493
Holocene calendar	11392
Igbo calendar	392–393
Iranian calendar	770–771
Islamic calendar	794–795
Japanese calendar	Meitoku 3; (明徳３年)
Javanese calendar	1305–1307
Julian calendar	1392; MCCCXCII
Korean calendar	3725
Minguo calendar	520 before ROC; 民前520年
Nanakshahi calendar	−76
Thai solar calendar	1934–1935
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་; (female Iron-Sheep); 1518 or 1137 or 365; — to —; ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་; (male Water-Monkey); 1519 or 1138 or 366

Year 1392 (MCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

January 16 – The semi-independent Serbian state (sanjak) of Uskup is annexed by the Ottoman Empire and General Pasha Yiğit Bey becomes the first Ottoman governor of the new province.
January 20 – A treaty halts the first of the Florentine–Milanese Wars after the Republic of Florence has liberated Padua from control by the Duchy of Milan. The treaty confirms the boundaries of Florence and Milan as they existed before the war, with the exception of Padua's new independence.
February 3 – Brancaleone Doria, the conqueror of most of the island of Sardinia, announces that he has recovered most of the territories that had been captured by his challenger, Martin of Aragon.
February 10 – Helena Dragaš, a descendant of King Stefan III Dečanski of Serbia, marries the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, and is crowned the next day as the Empress Consort of the Byzantine Empire.
March 16 – A fleet from Sicily, commanded by King Martin of Aragon, arrives at Capo San Marco on the island of Sardinia and makes, an unsuccessful attempt to capture the Sardinian leader Brancaleone Doria.

April–June

April 11 – In order to prevent an attack by the Duchy of Milan, led by Lord Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Republic of Florence forms the League of Bologna, a defensive alliance with other Italian city-states of Bologna, Padua, Ferrara, Imola, Faenza and Ravenna.
May 29 – After the Fleet Street riot in London, King Richard II of England summons Lord Mayor of London, John Hende, along with the London sheriff and deputies, and aldermen to appear before him at Nottingham Castle on June 25 for a hearing on unspecified charges.
June 4 – Louis de Valois is created first Duke of Orléans of the second creation.
June 13 – An assassination attempt by Pierre de Craon against Olivier V de Clisson, Constable of France, fails.
June 16 – Antoniotto di Montaldo is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa upon the resignation of Antoniotto Adorno.
June 25 – At a hearing at Nottingham Council concerning the Fleet Street riot, King Richard II of England orders that London's Mayor Hende is to be arrested, removed from office and imprisoned.

July–September

July 1 – King Charles VI of France, outraged at an attempt to assassinate his advisor Olivier V de Clisson, leads an invasion against the Duchy of Brittany and Duke Jean V for harboring the perpetrator, Pierre de Craon.
July 22 – After a second hearing at Nottingham Council concerning the Fleet Street riot, former London Mayor John Hende and other imprisoned city officials are assessed a fine and released from prison after posting bond to secure their return for future charges.
August 4 – King Jogaila of Poland and Lithuania appoints his cousin Vytautas the Great as regent of Lithuania, in return for Vytautas giving up his claim to the Lithuanian throne. Vytautas replaces Jogaila's unpopular brother Skirgaila as regent.
August 5
- At Gaegyeong, General Yi Sŏng-gye crowns himself King Taejo of Korea, ending the Goryeo dynasty in the Korean Peninsula, and establishing the Joseon dynasty, which will last for more than 500 years.
- King Charles VI of France (later known as "Charles the Mad") first displays symptoms of psychosis while crossing through the forests of Le Mans, attacking his own soldiers with his sword while under the delusion that they are enemy troops from the Duchy of Brittany. Charles' madness enables Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, to strengthen his power in the French court.
September 7 – Yi Pangsŏk, at 10 years old the youngest son of King Taejo of Korea, is designated as the heir to the throne.
September 23 – Aleid van Poelgeest, the mistress of Count Albert of Holland, is found dead at the Altena Castle in The Hague, along with the Count's chamberlain, Willem Cuser, the victim of Hook nobles who were opposed to Count Albert.
September 24 – Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of Ming dynasty China, declares that all males must wear the queue hairstyle.
September 28 – Prince Zhu Yunwen is designated as the heir to the throne of China by his father, the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

October–December

October 5 – (16 Dhu al-Qadah 794 AH) Muhammed VII succeeds his father, Yusuf II, as Sultan of the Emirate of Granada (modern-day southern Spain).
October 15 – (28th year of 9th month of Meitoku 3) The division of Japan between the Southern Court (with a capital at Yoshino) and the Northern Court) (with a capital at Heian-kyō, now Kyoto) ends as the southern Emperor Go-Kameyama agrees to recognize northern Emperor Go-Komatsu as the ruler of the entire nation.
November 19 – (5th day of the leap month of Meitoku 3) Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu, in order to end the nanboku-cho period of conflict between the Northern and Southern imperial courts.
November 23 – King Richard II of England summons the English Parliament to assemble at Winchester on January 20.
December 10 – The Parliament of France condemns the kingdom's Constable, Olivier V de Clisson, for having illegally enriched himself at the expense of King Charles VI.

Date unknown

Franciscan friar James of Jülich is boiled alive, for impersonating a bishop and ordaining his own priests.
Maria, Queen of Sicily defeats an army of rebel barons.
William le Scrope succeeds William II de Montacute, as King of Mann.
Seoan mac Pilib succeeds Tomas mor mac Mathghamhna as King of East Breifne, in north-central Ireland.
The city of Afyonkarahisar (in modern-day western Turkey) is conquered by Sultan Beyazid I, of the Ottoman Empire.
Erfurt University is founded in Erfurt, central Germany.
Penistone Grammar School, later to be one of the first community comprehensive schools in England, is founded near Barnsley, England.

Births

January 10 – Johanna van Polanen, Dutch noblewoman (d. 1445)
December 9 – Peter, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1449)
December 18 – John VIII Palaiologos, penultimate Byzantine emperor (d. 1448)
date unknown
- Alain Chartier, French poet and political writer (approximate date; d. c. 1430)
- Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist and historian (d. 1463)
- Barbara of Cilli, Holy Roman Empress, queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1451)
- John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (d. 1432)
- John II of Ligny, French nobleman (d. 1441)
- Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (d. 1447)
- Idris Imad al-Din, supreme leader of Tayyibi Isma'ilism, scholar and historian (d. 1468)

Deaths

March 25 – Hosokawa Yoriyuki, Japanese samurai
April 26 – Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (b. 1338)
May 17 – Zhu Biao, crown prince of the Ming dynasty, China (b. 1355)
November 22 – Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland (b. 1362)
December 23 – Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York (b. 1355)
date unknown
- Abbot Methodius of Peshnosha, Eastern Orthodox saint
- Lalleshwari, Kashmiri poet and mystic (b. 1320)

References

↑ "Archeological Excavations: "Skopsko Kale"". skopskokale.com.mk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-07. The handwriting of the triod of the Khludov collection in the Moscow Historical Museum no. 162, completed on 6 January 1392, on the day of the Ottoman conquest of Skopje.
↑ Caferro, William (2006). John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 308. ISBN 0-8018-8323-7.
↑ Raimondo Carta Raspi, Storia della Sardegna (Milan: Mursia, 1981)
↑ Barker, John W. (1969). Manuel II Palaeologus (1391-1425): A Study in Late Byzantine Statesmanship. Rutgers University Press. p. xxiv.
↑ Mario Philippides, Constantine XI Dragaš Palaeologus (1404–1453): The Last Emperor of Byzantium (Taylor & Francis, 2018) p.36.
↑ Alessandra Cioppi, Battaglie e protagonisti della Sardegna medioevale (Cagliari: AM-D, 2008)
↑ Bueno de Mesquita, D. M. (1941). Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (1351–1402): A Study in the Political Career of an Italian Despot. Cambridge University Press. p. 144.
↑ Kohl, Benjamin G. (1998). Padua under the Carrara, 1318–1405. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 303. ISBN 0-8018-5703-1.
↑ Rawcliffe, Carole (1993). "Vanner, Henry (d.1395), of London". The History of Parliament. Vol. The House of Commons 1386–1421. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
↑ Keane, Marguerite (2016). Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331–1398). Brill.
↑ Oreste, Giuseppe (1960). "Dizionario biografico degli Italiano".
1 2 Barron, Caroline; Carlin, Martha; Rosenthal, Joel T. (2017). "Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron" (PDF). Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (9): 33–36.
↑ Jučas, Mečislovas. "Astravos sutartis". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
↑ Seth, Michael J. (2019). A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462921119.
↑ Ryder, Alan (2016). "The Angevin bid for Naples, 1380–1480". In Abulafia, David (ed.). The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494–95: Antecedents and Effects. Routledge. p. 56. ISBN 9780860785507.
↑ Sumption, Jonathan (2009). The Hundred Years War, Volume III: Divided Houses. Faber and Faber. pp. 802–803. ISBN 978-0-571-24012-8.
↑ 《Annals of the Joseon Dynasty》 Volume 3 of the Annals of King Taejo, the second year of King Taejo reign (1393)
↑ van Oostrom, F. P. (1992). Court and Culture: Dutch Literature, 1350-1450. Translated by Pomerans, Arnold J. University of California Press. p. 37.
↑ Chan, Hok-Lam (2009). "Ming Taizu's 'Placards' on Harsh Regulations and Punishments Revealed in Gu Qiyuan's 'Kezuo Zhuiyu.'". Asia Major. 22 (1): 28. JSTOR 41649963. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
↑ Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry (2002). Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle. Seattle: University of Washington Press; Combined Academic. p. 59. ISBN 0295981245.
↑ Harvey, L. P. (1992). Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-226-31962-9.
↑ Michael Jones, Ducal Brittany, 1364-1399: relations with England and France during the reign of Duke John IV, Oxford University Press, 1970)
↑ Qutbuddin, Tahera (2018). "Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32368. ISSN 1873-9830.

[1] "Archeological Excavations: "Skopsko Kale"". skopskokale.com.mk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-07. The handwriting of the triod of the Khludov collection in the Moscow Historical Museum no. 162, completed on 6 January 1392, on the day of the Ottoman conquest of Skopje.

[2] Caferro, William (2006). John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 308. ISBN 0-8018-8323-7.

[3] Raimondo Carta Raspi, Storia della Sardegna (Milan: Mursia, 1981)

[4] Barker, John W. (1969). Manuel II Palaeologus (1391-1425): A Study in Late Byzantine Statesmanship. Rutgers University Press. p. xxiv.

[5] Mario Philippides, Constantine XI Dragaš Palaeologus (1404–1453): The Last Emperor of Byzantium (Taylor & Francis, 2018) p.36.

[6] Alessandra Cioppi, Battaglie e protagonisti della Sardegna medioevale (Cagliari: AM-D, 2008)

[7] Bueno de Mesquita, D. M. (1941). Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (1351–1402): A Study in the Political Career of an Italian Despot. Cambridge University Press. p. 144.

[8] Kohl, Benjamin G. (1998). Padua under the Carrara, 1318–1405. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 303. ISBN 0-8018-5703-1.

[9] Rawcliffe, Carole (1993). "Vanner, Henry (d.1395), of London". The History of Parliament. Vol. The House of Commons 1386–1421. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 16 December 2025.

[10] Keane, Marguerite (2016). Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331–1398). Brill.

[11] Oreste, Giuseppe (1960). "Dizionario biografico degli Italiano".

[BCR-12] 1 2 Barron, Caroline; Carlin, Martha; Rosenthal, Joel T. (2017). "Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron" (PDF). Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (9): 33–36.

[13] Jučas, Mečislovas. "Astravos sutartis". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija. Retrieved 5 January 2026.

[14] Seth, Michael J. (2019). A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462921119.

[15] Ryder, Alan (2016). "The Angevin bid for Naples, 1380–1480". In Abulafia, David (ed.). The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494–95: Antecedents and Effects. Routledge. p. 56. ISBN 9780860785507.

[16] Sumption, Jonathan (2009). The Hundred Years War, Volume III: Divided Houses. Faber and Faber. pp. 802–803. ISBN 978-0-571-24012-8.

[17] 《Annals of the Joseon Dynasty》 Volume 3 of the Annals of King Taejo, the second year of King Taejo reign (1393)

[18] van Oostrom, F. P. (1992). Court and Culture: Dutch Literature, 1350-1450. Translated by Pomerans, Arnold J. University of California Press. p. 37.

[19] Chan, Hok-Lam (2009). "Ming Taizu's 'Placards' on Harsh Regulations and Punishments Revealed in Gu Qiyuan's 'Kezuo Zhuiyu.'". Asia Major. 22 (1): 28. JSTOR 41649963. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

[20] Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry (2002). Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle. Seattle: University of Washington Press; Combined Academic. p. 59. ISBN 0295981245.

[21] Harvey, L. P. (1992). Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-226-31962-9.

[22] Michael Jones, Ducal Brittany, 1364-1399: relations with England and France during the reign of Duke John IV, Oxford University Press, 1970)

[23] Qutbuddin, Tahera (2018). "Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32368. ISSN 1873-9830.

Gregorian calendar	1392 MCCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	2145
Armenian calendar	841 ԹՎ ՊԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	6142
Balinese saka calendar	1313–1314
Bengali calendar	798–799
Berber calendar	2342
English Regnal year	15 Ric. 2 – 16 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1936
Burmese calendar	754
Byzantine calendar	6900–6901
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4089 or 3882 — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4090 or 3883
Coptic calendar	1108–1109
Discordian calendar	2558
Ethiopian calendar	1384–1385
Hebrew calendar	5152–5153
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1448–1449
- Shaka Samvat	1313–1314
- Kali Yuga	4492–4493
Holocene calendar	11392
Igbo calendar	392–393
Iranian calendar	770–771
Islamic calendar	794–795
Japanese calendar	Meitoku 3 (明徳３年)
Javanese calendar	1305–1307
Julian calendar	1392 MCCCXCII
Korean calendar	3725
Minguo calendar	520 before ROC 民前520年
Nanakshahi calendar	−76
Thai solar calendar	1934–1935
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1518 or 1137 or 365 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1519 or 1138 or 366

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