Year by year · 14th century

1399

1399 in world history: 3 events, 7 deaths and 1 state founded. 881 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 30 September

    Parliament accepts Richard II's deposition and Henry IV's claim

    Richard II's abdication was read to an assembly at Westminster, which then acclaimed Henry Bolingbroke as Henry IV. The Lancastrian usurpation sowed the seeds of the Wars of the Roses.

  2. Battle

    Battle of the Vorskla River

    The Battle of the Vorskla River was fought on 12 August 1399 on the Vorskla, a tributary of the Dnieper in modern Ukraine.

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In the profiles

Died in 1399 7

States founded 1

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