1391
Year 1391 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- June 6 - Massacre of 1391: Anti-Jewish pogroms erupt in Seville, Spain. Many thousands of Jews are massacred, and the violence spreads throughout Spain and Portugal, especially to Toledo, Barcelona and Mallorca. This event marks a turning-point in the history of the Spanish Jews, with most of the survivors leaving the Iberian Peninsula or being forced to convert.
- July 18 - Tokhtamysh–Timur war - Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde, in present day southeast Russia.
Date unknown
- Manuel II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine emperor after his father, John V Palaiologos, dies of a nervous breakdown, due to his continued humiliation by the Ottoman Empire.
- Yusuf II succeeds Muhammed V, as Nasrid Sultan of Granada.
- Stephen Dabiša succeeds Stephen Tvrtko I, as King of Bosnia.
- Shah Mansur becomes leader of the Timurid-occupied Muzaffarid Empire, in central Persia.
- A group of Muzaffarids under Zafar Khan Muzaffar establish a new Sultanate at Gujarat, in western India.
- Vytautas the Great, claimant to the throne of Lithuania, forms an alliance with Muscovy.
- Roman I succeeds Petru, as Prince of Moldavia.
- Konrad von Wallenrode succeeds Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein, as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
- Bridget of Sweden is canonized by Pope Boniface IX.
- Ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod sack the Muscovy towns of Zhukotin and Kazan.
- The Chinese invent toilet paper for use by their emperors.
- Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, takes control of the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands.
- The University of Ferrara is founded on the Italian Peninsula.
- The Ming government orders 50 million trees planted in the Nanjing area.
Births
- June 24 - Joan of France, Duchess of Brittany
- July 31 - Cyriacus of Ancona, Italian merchant, "father of archaeology"
- October 31 - Edward, King of Portugal
- November 6 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician
- Gedun Drub, 1st Dalai Lama
- Thomas West, 2nd Baron West, English soldier
Deaths
- January 16 - Emir Muhammed V of Granada
- February 16 - John V Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor
- March 10 - King Tvrtko I of Bosnia
- November 1 - Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
- Gaston III, Count of Foix, co-prince of Andorra
- date unknown
- * Petru, Prince of Moldavia
- * Margaret, Countess of Mar