* [[September 2]] – The Bona crusaders from Spain sack the Algerian village of [[Crusade of Tedelis|Tedelis]] in the [[Kingdom of Tlemcen]], killing around 1,000 people, before abandoning the African crusade and returning to defend the siege of [[Avignon]] at France.<ref name=Paesi/>
* [[September 2]] – The Bona crusaders from Spain sack the Algerian village of [[Crusade of Tedelis|Tedelis]] in the [[Kingdom of Tlemcen]], killing around 1,000 people, before abandoning the African crusade and returning to defend the siege of [[Avignon]] at France.<ref name=Paesi/>
* [[September 9]] – [[Janus, King of Cyprus|Janus of the House of Poitiers-Lusignan]] becomes the new [[Kingdom of Cyprus#List of monarchs of Cyprus|King of Cyprus]] upon the death of his father, [[James I of Cyprus|King Jacques I]], who had reigned since 1382.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=The Kingdom of Cyprus |first=Harry |last=Luke |title=A History of the Crusades: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries |volume=III |editor-first=Kenneth Meyer |editor-last=Setton |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |year=1975|pages=370–371}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/history/lusignan/4janus.htm |title=Cyprus History: Lusignan Period – the Reign of Janus }}</ref>
* [[September 9]] – [[Janus, King of Cyprus|Janus of the House of Poitiers-Lusignan]] becomes the new [[Kingdom of Cyprus#List of monarchs of Cyprus|King of Cyprus]] upon the death of his father, [[James I of Cyprus|King Jacques I]], who had reigned since 1382.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=The Kingdom of Cyprus |first=Harry |last=Luke |title=A History of the Crusades: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries |volume=III |editor-first=Kenneth Meyer |editor-last=Setton |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |year=1975|pages=370–371}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/history/lusignan/4janus.htm |title=Cyprus History: Lusignan Period – the Reign of Janus }}</ref>
* [[September 16]] – King [[Richard II of England]] exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (the future [[Henry IV of England]]) for 10 years, in order to end Henry’s feud with [[Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk]], who is also exiled.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last= Horrox |date=2004 |first=Rosemary |title=Edward, second duke of York (c. 1373–1415) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22356 |edition=online |doi=10.1093 |doi-broken-date=26 January 2026 }}</ref>
* [[September 16]] – King [[Richard II of England]] exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (the future [[Henry IV of England]]) for 10 years, in order to end Henry’s feud with [[Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk]], who is also exiled.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last= Horrox |date=2004 |first=Rosemary |title=Edward, second duke of York (c. 1373–1415) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22356 |edition=online }}</ref>
=== October–December ===
=== October–December ===
Calendar year
Year 1398 (MCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
- January 6 – In Amberg, Ruprecht III “the Righteous” of the House of Wittelsbach becomes the new Elector of the Palatinate within the Holy Roman Empire upon the death of his father, Ruprecht II “the Hard”.[1]
- January 31 – The 24th English Parliament of King Richard II is dissolved after having met since September 17.
- January – The Dao Ganmeng rebellion in the Chinese vassal state of Möng Mao,started in December by Dao Genmeng, is brought to an end in what is now Myanmar two months after Dao Ganmeng‘s takeover. With the intervention of the Chinese Empire, led by the Ming dynasty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the deposed ruler Si Lunfa is restored to leadership.[2]
- February 20 – The vicar John de Aston of Colston Bassett is released from incarceration at Fleet Prison in England by order of King Richard II upon the payment of mainprise or bail.[3]
- March 15 – Trần Thuận Tông is forced to abdicate as ruler of the Trần dynasty in modern-day Vietnam, in favour of his three-year-old son Trần Thiếu Đế.
- March 17 – The Teutonic Knights resume their attack on Lithuania as a fleet of 84 ships, 4,000 men and 400 horses departs from Danzig toward Gotland, and arrive on March 21.[4]
- March 19 – Abu Said Uthman III succeeds his older brother Abdallah ibn Ahmad II as the ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco, reigning until his death in 1420.[5]
- July 14 – In what is now central Turkey, Kadi Burhan al-Din, the vizier of and regent for the Sultanate of Eretnia, on a campaign to conquer the Emirate of Erzincan (eastern Turkey and western Armenia) and capture its Emir Mutahharten, is killed in battle by Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg.[9]
- July 22 – The first ships to complete passage on the 60 miles (97 km) long Stecknitz Canal in Germany arrive at Lübeck, with 30 barges carrying salt from Lüneburg. The canal, completed after seven years between the rivers Elbe and Trave, is one of the earliest navigable summit level canals in the world.[10]
- July 27 – Following the consensus of the Assembly of Paris of that had begun meeting on May 11, King Charles V of France signs an ordinance withdrawing obedience to both the French Avignon pope Benedict XIII and to Rome’s Pope Boniface IX to issue benefices to persons who offer services to the Catholic Church.[11] An army led by Geoffrey Boucicaut occupies Avignon, and starts a five-year siege of the papal palace.[12]
- August 21 – King Martin of Aragon, and ruler of Valencia, Majorca and Barcelona, begins the Bona crusade of Christians against the Muslims of Tunisia and departs from the island of Menorca with 13 galleys, 77 warships and 7,500 crusaders toward the Harsid Kingdom, ruled by the Caliph Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II.[13]
- September 2 – The Bona crusaders from Spain sack the Algerian village of Tedelis in the Kingdom of Tlemcen, killing around 1,000 people, before abandoning the African crusade and returning to defend the siege of Avignon at France.[13]
- September 9 – Janus of the House of Poitiers-Lusignan becomes the new King of Cyprus upon the death of his father, King Jacques I, who had reigned since 1382.[14][15]
- September 16 – King Richard II of England exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (the future Henry IV of England) for 10 years, in order to end Henry’s feud with Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who is also exiled.[16]
- October 12 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed by Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Konrad von Jungingen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, in an attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights.
- October 14 – King Taejo of Joseon abdicates the throne of the Joseon dynasty in modern-day Korea, following the murder of his heir Yi Bangsuk, during a coup by Yi’s older half-brother, Yi Bang-won, in The First Strife Of Princes. Taejo’s eldest son Jeongjong succeeds to the throne.
- November 11 – Janus succeeds his father, James I, as King of Cyprus and claimant to the throne of Armenian Cilicia.
- December 17 – Timur defeats the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, which has been weakened after four years of civil war. Following his victory, Timur’s Islamic troops sack the city of Delhi, and proceed to massacre hundreds of thousands of the state’s Hindu inhabitants.
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- ^ “Cyprus History: Lusignan Period – the Reign of Janus”.
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