1398

Years: 1395 1396 1397 - 1398 - 1399 1400 1401

Decades: 1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s

Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

Events

• Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed.
• Construction of the Stecknitz Canal as one of the oldest artificial waterways of the world.
• Timur arrived on the bank of the Indus River, and proceeded to sack Delhi.
• The Teutonic Order occupies the island of Gotland.

Births

• August 19 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
• Johann Gutenberg, inventor credited with mass printing.

Deaths

• January 31 - Emperor Suko of Japan (b. 1334)
• June 24 - Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (b. 1328)
• July 20 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March
• Jeong Dojeon, Korean Neo-Confucian ideologue.
• John of Gaunt third son of Edward III of England

See also: 1398, 1328, 1334, 1360s, 1370s, 1380s, 1390s, 1395, 1396, 1397