Editing 1400 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Timur|Tamerlane]], the Mongol conqueror, stops between [[Malatya]] and [[Aleppo]] at the Turkish garrison in [[Besni|Behesna]]. According to author Peter Purton, the garrison "had the temerity to shoot a catapult ball at Timur which rolled into his tent. Setting up his own battery of 20 machines, it is said that the first shot hit and destroyed the offending weapon. Treating this as a good omen, the attack was launched, the towers mined... and the place surrendered."<ref>Peter Purton, ''A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500'' (Boydell & Brewer, 2009) p.186</ref>
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Jingnan campaign]]: In China, Prince [[Zhu Di]] of Yan expands his conquests with the capture of [[Cangzhou]] in [[Heibei]] province.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; (11 [[Rabi' al-Awwal|Rabi' I]] 803 AH) Tamerlane begins the [[Sack of Aleppo (1400)|destruction of the Syrian city]] of [[Aleppo]]<ref>Alphonse de Lamartine, ''History of Turkey'' (translated from the French) (D. Appleton and Company, 1855) p.320</ref> overwhelming the [[Mamluk Sultanate]] defenders. 
* [[November 2]] &ndash; The Mamluk Sultanate surrenders the city of Aleppo and Tamerlane's Army massacres many of the inhabitants.<ref>Rebecca Joyce Frey, ''Genocide and International Justice'' (Facts On File, 2009) p.188</ref>
* [[November 25]] &ndash; (9th waxing of Nadaw, [[Burmese calendar|730 ME]]) [[Minkhaung I]] becomes the new King of Ava, the largest kingdom in what is now northern [[Myanmar]], after a battle for power that follows the assassination of the erratic [[Tarabya of Ava|King Tarabya]].
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Manuel II Palaiologos]] becomes the only [[Byzantine Emperor]] ever to visit England, and is greeted at [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]] by [[Henry IV of England|King Henry IV]], who hosts the Emperor at [[Eltham Palace]] during the Christmas holiday.<ref>"Henry IV", by T. F. Tout, in ''Dictionary of National Biography'', ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (The Macmillan Company, 1908) p.488</ref>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; In China, the [[Jingnan campaign]] of Prince [[Zhu Di]] of Yan suffers a serious reversal at the Battle of Dongchang as Imperial General Sheng Yong, replacement of [[Li Jinglong]], encircles the Yan forces. Yan Army General [[Zhang Yu (general)|Zhang Yu]] is killed, but Zhu Di is able to escape to the northern capital at [[Beijing]] and regroups his forces for a second attack to take place in February.