1394. Birth of Prince Henry of Portugal, known as the "Navigator."
1395. Milan is created a hereditary duchy by Emperor Wenceslaus for Giovanni Galeazzo Visconti.
1396. Battle of Nicopolis; the Christian defenders of Hungary suffer a great defeat at the hands of the Turkish sultan Bajazet I.
1397. Scandinavia united under one crown. See "Union of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway," vii, [243.]
1398. Mortimer, Earl of March, presumptive heir to the English throne and governor of Ireland, slain by a rebel force in that island.
Froissart writes his Chronicles.
1399. Deposition of Richard II of England; Henry Bolingbroke founds the house of Lancaster. See "Deposition of Richard II," vii, [251.]
After a long struggle for the possession of Naples between Ladislaus and Louis II of Anjou, it ends in the triumph of Ladislaus.
1400. A great revolt of the Welsh is headed by Owen Glendower.
Emperor Wenceslaus is deposed.