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{{C14 year in topic}}Year '''1393''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCCXCIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] (link will display full calendar) of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Bal des Ardents]]: Four members of the court of [[Charles VI of France]] die in a fire, at a [[masquerade ball]].<ref>Veenstra, Jan R. and Laurens Pignon. (1997).  ''Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France''. New York: Brill, p. 27-95. {{ISBN|978-90-04-10925-4}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; Bohemian priest [[John of Nepomuk]] is killed in [[Prague]] by being thrown off Charles Bridge into the [[Vltava]] river, allegedly at the behest of king [[Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia]]. Nepomuk later will be declared a saint.<ref>Krčmář, Mgr. Luděk. "Saint John of Nepomuk". SJN.cz. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. <q>If in 1369 John of Pomuk was a notary public, he must have been more than twenty years old. Thus he was probably born sometime between 1340 and 1350 [1349].</q></ref>
* [[March 29]] - In central [[Persia]], the [[Muzaffarids (Iran)|Muzzafarid Empire]], led by [[Shah Mansur (Muzaffarid)|Shah Mansur]], rebels against their [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] occupiers. The rebellion is squashed and the Shah is executed along with the whole Muzaffarid nobility, ending the Muzaffarid dynasty in Persia.<ref>TÜRKLER ANSİKLOPEDİSİ CİLT 8</ref>
* [[November 30]] - [[Konrad von Jungingen]] succeeds [[Konrad von Wallenrode]], as [[Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights]].<ref>Friedrich Borchert: "Die Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens in Preußen." In: ''Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung'', 6 October 2001.</ref><ref>Carlqvist, Gunnar, red (1933). ''Svensk uppslagsbok. Bd 14''. Malmö: Svensk Uppslagsbok AB. sid. 729 (Swedish).</ref>

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* [[George VII of Georgia|George VII]] succeeds his popular father, [[Bagrat V of Georgia|Bagrat V]], as King of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].<ref>Rayfield, Donald (2017). ''Georgia. Crossroads of Empires. A history of three thousand years''(in Russian). [[Moscow]]: ABC-Atticus. {{ISBN|978-5-389-12944-3}}</ref>
* Abdul Aziz II becomes Sultan of the [[Marinid dynasty]] in present-day [[Morocco]], after the death of Sultan Abu Al-Abbas.<ref>Ilahiane, Hsain (2006-07-17). ''Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen)''. Scarecrow Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-6490-0}}.</ref>
* [[Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini]] succeeds [[Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen]], as Prince of [[History of Taranto|Taranto]] (now southeastern Italy).<ref>Toomaspoeg, Kristjan (2013). "ORSINI DEL BALZO, Raimondo". ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'' (in Italian). Vol. 79.</ref>
* [[Samsenethai]] succeeds his father, [[Fa Ngum]], as King of [[Lan Xang]] (now [[Laos]]).<ref>Stuart-Fox, Martin (1998). ''The Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang: Rise and Decline''. White Lotus Press.</ref>
* King [[James I of Cyprus]] inherits the title of King of [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Armenia]], after the death of his distant cousin [[Leo VI of Armenia|Leo VI]] (although the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk]] conquerors from [[Egypt]] remain the true rulers).<ref>Chris Schabel, "Like God from Heaven, but they don’t call him King. The Rebellion against James I of Cyprus [article]," Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes Année 2013 43 pp. 379-392. https://www.persee.fr/doc/cchyp_0761-8271_2013_num_43_1_1075. Accessed 2025-01-19.</ref>
* A [[Ming dynasty]] [[Toilet paper#History|Chinese record]] states that 720,000 sheets of [[toilet paper]] (two by three ft. in size) alone have been produced for the various members of the imperial court at Beijing, while the Imperial Bureau of Supplies also reports that 15,000 sheets of toilet paper alone have been designated for the royal family (made of fine soft yellow tissue and [[perfume]]d).<ref>Needham, Joseph (1986). ''Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 1, Paper and Printing''. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd.</ref>
* [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]] resists an invasion by the [[Ottoman Empire]].
* The [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Turkic peoples|Turks]] capture Turnovgrad (now [[Veliko Tarnovo]]), the capital city of east [[Second Bulgarian Empire|Bulgaria]]. Emperor [[Ivan Shishman]] is allowed to remain as puppet ruler of east Bulgaria.
* Despite his treaty with the king of Poland, [[Roman I of Moldavia]] supports [[Fyodor Koriatovych]] against the king. Losing the battle, he will also lose the throne of [[Moldavia]] the next year.
* Sikander Shah I succeeds Muhammad Shah III, as Sultan of [[Delhi Sultanate|Delhi]]. Sikander Shah I is succeeded two months later by Mahmud II.
* Abu Thabid II succeeds Abu Tashufin II, as ruler of the [[Abdalwadid]] dynasty in present-day eastern [[Algeria]]. Abu Thabid is succeeded in the same year by his brother, Abul Hadjdjadj I.
* Maelruanaidh MacDermot succeeds Aedh MacDermot, as King of [[Magh Luirg]] in north-central Ireland.
* King [[Stjepan Dabiša]] of [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]] signs the Contract of Djakovice, establishing peace with King [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Sigismund of Hungary]].<ref>[[Sima Ćirković|Ćirković, Sima]] (1964). ''Историја средњовековне босанске државе'' (in Serbo-Croatian). Srpska književna zadruga, p. 170.</ref>
* [[Byzantium]] loses [[Thessaly]] to the growing [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref>Savvides, Alexis (1998). "Splintered Medieval Hellenism : The Semi-Autonomous State of Thessaly (A.d. 1213/1222 to 1454/1470) and ITS Place in History". ''Byzantion''. '''68''' (2): 416. [[JSTOR (identifier)|JSTOR]] 44172339. <q>Following the Ottoman capture of Larissa in 1392/1393, the Turkish forces moved southward towards Hellas and invaded the Peloponnese, which had already experienced their initial devastations; the next decades would witness the building-up of local resistance in Thessaly on the part of sections of Greeks, Albanians and Vlachs, who had taken to the mountains</q></ref>
* In her aim to form [[Kalmar Union|The Kalmar Union]], Queen [[Margaret I of Denmark]] is laying siege to Stockholm, which is controlled by troops loyal to the former Swedish king [[Albert, King of Sweden|Albert of Mecklenburg.]]<ref>Lindkvist, Thomas. Margaret I of Denmark at ''[[Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon]]''</ref><ref>Etting, Vivian (2004). ''Queen Margrete I (1353–1412) and the Founding of the Nordic Union''. Brill. {{ISBN|978-9047404798}}.</ref>
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== Births ==
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland]] (d. [[1455]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Lomas|title=A Power in the Land: The Percys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmpmAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Tuckwell Press|isbn=978-1-86232-067-3|page=83}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Arthur III, Duke of Brittany]] (d. [[1458]])
* December &ndash; [[Margaret of Burgundy, Dauphine of France]]  (d. [[1442]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[John Capgrave]], English theologian (d. [[1464]])
** [[Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini]], Prince of [[Taranto]] (d. [[1463]])
** [[Anna of Moscow]], Byzantine empress consort  (d. [[1417]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist04comm|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4080-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist04comm/page/360 360]}}</ref>
** [[Osbern Bokenam]], English Augustinian friar and poet
** [[Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley]]
** [[Andrea Vendramin]], [[Doge of Venice]] (d. [[1478]])
** [[Alvise Loredan]], Venetian admiral and statesman (d. [[1466]])

== Deaths ==
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Bogislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania]] (b. c. [[1350]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[John of Nepomuk]], saint
* [[March 29]] - [[Shah Mansur (Muzaffarid)|Shah Mansur]], Ruler of the [[Muzaffarids (Iran)|Muzaffarids]] 
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-En'yū]] of Japan, former Pretender to the throne (b. [[1359]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Konrad von Wallenrode]], [[Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights]]
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Alberto d'Este]], [[List of Dukes of Ferrara and of Modena|Lord of Ferrara and Modena]] (b. [[1347]])
* [[August 6]] – [[John de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros]] (b. [[1365]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&pg=RA2-PA87|publisher=Douglas Richardson|isbn=978-1-4610-4513-7|pages=87}}</ref>
* [[November 29]] – King [[Leo V of Armenia]] (b. c. [[1342]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Fa Ngum]], founder of the Lao Kingdom of [[Lan Xang]] (b. [[1316]])
** [[Valentina Visconti, Queen of Cyprus]]
** King [[Bagrat V of Georgia]]
** [[Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad al-Mustansir]], Sultan of the [[Marinid dynasty]] in [[Morocco]]

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