1390

1390 (MCCCXC) was a common year beginning on a Saturday of the Julian calendar, in force on that date.

Events

• April 14 - John VII Paleologist defeats his grandfather, John V Paleologist, as Byzantine emperor.
• April 19 – Roberto III of Scotland succeeds his father, Roberto II, as king of Scotland.
• Juan I de Castilla founded the Monastery of San Benito el Real de Valladolid as the center of a monastic reform.
• Henry III ascends to the throne of the kingdoms of Castile and Leon.
• The Ottomans take Philadelphia (Asia Menor), the last major Byzantine enclave in Anatolia.
• The first Ottoman siege takes place in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople.

Births

• December 27 - Ana Mortimer, died in 1411.
• Jan van Eyck (h 1390-f. 1441), a flamenco painter.

Deaths

• March 20 - Rabbi III of Trebisonda born in 1338.
• April 19 - Roberto II of Scotland born in 1316.
• September 23 - Juan I de Lorena de la Casa de Lorena, born in 1346.
• October 9 - Juan I of Castile (a horse in Alcalá de Henares), was born in 1358.
• Altichiero - Italian Poet.
• Alfonso Fernández de Montemayor, Mister of Montemayor and Alcaudete, and major advance of the Andalusian border.