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Year 1393 (MCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 28 – Bal des Ardents: Four members of the court of Charles VI of France die in a fire at a masquerade ball.

Date unknown

• In central Persia, the Muzzafarid Empire, led by Shah Mansur, rebels against their Timurid occupiers. The rebellion is squashed and the Muzaffarid nobility are executed, ending the Muzaffarid dynasty in Persia.
• George VII succeeds his popular father, Bagrat V, as King of Georgia.
• Abdul Aziz II becomes Sultan of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco after the death of Sultan Abu Al-Abbas.
• Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini succeeds Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen as Prince of Taranto (now south-eastern Italy).
• Samsenethai succeeds his father, Fa Ngum, as King of Lan Xang (now Laos).
• King James I of Cyprus inherits the title of King of Armenia after the death of his distant cousin Leo VI (although the Mamluk conquerors from Egypt remain the true rulers).
• A Ming dynasty 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 perfumed).
• Bosnia resists an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
• The Ottoman Turks capture Turnovgrad (now Veliko Tarnovo), the capital city of east Bulgaria. Emperor Ivan Shishman is allowed to remain as puppet ruler of east Bulgaria.
• Sikander Shah I succeeds Muhammad Shah III as Sultan of 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.
• Konrad von Jungingen succeeds Konrad von Wallenrode as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
• Maelruanaidh MacDermot succeeds Aedh MacDermot as King of Magh Luirg in north-central Ireland.
• King Stjepan Dabiša of Bosnia signs the Contract of Djakovice, establishing peace with King Sigismund of Hungary.
• Byzantium loses Thessaly to the growing Ottoman Empire.

Births

• August 24 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
• December – Margaret of Burgundy
• date unknown
  • John Capgrave, theologian (d. 1464)
  • Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto (d. 1463)
  • Anna of Moscow
  • Osbern Bokenam
  • Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley
  • Andrea Vendramin

Deaths

• June 6 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan, former Pretender to the throne (b. 1359)
• date unknown
  • Fa Ngum, creator of the Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang
  • King Leo VI of Armenia
  • King Bagrat V of Georgia
  • Sultan Abu Al-Abbas of the Marinid dynasty
  • Konrad von Wallenrode, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

References