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Calendar year
Year
1392
(
MCCCXCII
) was a
leap year starting on Monday
(link will display full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
.
Events
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January–December
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Date unknown
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- 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.
- Muhammed VII succeeds Yusuf II, as
Nasrid
Sultan of
Granada
(modern-day southern Spain).
- Franciscan
friar
James of Julich
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
.
- Louis de Valois
is created first
Duke of Orleans
of the second creation.
- 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
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- 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 Luxembourg, Count 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
)
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Deaths
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