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

Deaths

• Emperor Suko of Japan, third of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.
• Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty.
• Jeong Dojeon, Korean Neo-Confucian ideologue.