January 28– At the "Bal des Ardents", four members of the court of Charles VI of France, participating in a dance at the Palace of Saint-Pol in Paris for the entertainment of the guests at a wedding, are burned to death by accident at a masquerade ball. King Charles himself, one of the masked dancers, escapes injury when his aunt, Joan II, Countess of Auvergne, saves him.
February 10– The English Parliament adjourns after three weeks and the passage of numerous laws. Among the acts given royal assent are the Trade Act 1392 ("No merchant stranger shall buy or sell with another merchant stranger to sell again"), the Statute of Praemunire (which outlaws appealing an English court case to the Pope if the King of England objects) and the Weights and Measures Act 1392 ("The clerk of the market shall carry with him all his weights and measures signed.")
March 29– In central Persia, the Muzzafarid Empire, led by Shah Mansur, rebels against their Timurid occupiers. The rebellion is quashed and the Shah is executed along with the whole Muzaffarid nobility, ending the Muzaffarid dynasty in Persia.
June 4–Hook and Cod wars: In Holland, after a revolt in Leiden by the "Hooks", elite members and guild members in the community, Albrecht van Beieren, Count of Holland, revokes promises previously made to the Hooks for more autonomy, appoints a new bench of adlermen from the "Cods" (his supporters), and punishes many of the rebels, either by exiling them or requiring them to go on the next pilgrimage to the Middle East.
July 15– A political crisis begins in the Republic of Genoa, with four different holders of the chief executive office over a period of several hours. Antoniotto di Montaldo, the "Lifetime Doge" for more than a year, resigns and directs that Pietro Fregoso shall be his successor. Fregoso takes office, but resigns the next day.
July 30– The return of the Montaldo faction to Genoa forces the Doge, Francesco di Garibaldo, to go into exile to allow the return of Antoniotto Montaldo, who had stepped down as Doge of Genoa 17 days earlier.
August 2– At the age of 13, Enrique el Doliente, who succeeded to the throne of the Crown of Castile upon the death of his father John I of Castile King Juan in 1390, dismisses his Regency Council and assumes full power as King Enrique III.
August 29– The conqueror Timur arrives with his army at the gates of Baghdad and Persian writer Nizam al-Din Shami will say later that he was the first to offer submission to the Amir of the Timurid Empire.
October 3–Walter Brut, a leader of the Lollards sect of Christian reformers, is put on trial for heresy before the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hereford, Thomas Trefnant. Brut is acquitted of the charges.
November – Abu Zayyan II succeeds his brother, Abul Hadjdjadj I, as ruler of the Zayyanid dynasty in modern-day eastern Algeria.
November 13– King Richard II of England orders members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons to meet at Westminster on January 27.
November 20– The conqueror Timur of the Timurid Empire in the Middle East begins the three-week siege of Takrit in what is now Iraq.
December 11– After a three week long siege, the city of Takrit, described in contemporary accounts as "a bandit stronghold said to be impregnable," falls to the troops of the conqueror Timur.
December 15– King Robert III of Scotland compensates the Monastery of Scone, where he had been crowned in 1390, for the expenses and inconvenience caused by his coronation and those of previous kings.
December 26– Traders from the island of Java (now part of Indonesia) arrive in China for their first overseas commerce with the Chinese Empire.
King James I of Cyprus inherits the title of King of Armenia, after the death of his distant cousin Leo VI (although the Mamluk conquerors from Egypt remain the true rulers).
A Ming dynastyChinese record states that 720,000 sheets of toilet paper (two by three ft. in size) alone have been produced for the various members of the imperial court at Beijing, while the Imperial Bureau of Supplies also reports that 15,000 sheets of toilet paper alone have been designated for the royal family (made of fine soft yellow tissue and perfumed).
Despite his treaty with the king of Poland, Roman I of Moldavia supports Fyodor Koriatovych against the king. Losing the battle, he will also lose the throne of Moldavia the next year.
Sikander Shah I succeeds Muhammad Shah III, as Sultan of Delhi. Sikander Shah I is succeeded two months later by Mahmud II.
Maelruanaidh MacDermot succeeds Aedh MacDermot, as King of Magh Luirg in north-central Ireland.
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