1396

Year 1396 was a leap year starting on Saturday.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1393 1394 1395 – 1396 – 1397 1398 1399

Events of 1396

• May 19 – Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon (now north-east Spain).
• September 25 – Battle of Nicopolis: The Ottomans defeat a joint crusade by Hungary, France, the Holy Roman Empire, England and Wallacia, led by King Sigismund of Hungary. This was last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages.
• November 24 – Transit of Venus – the last not to be part of a pair. Possibly observed by Aztec astronomers.
• November 29 – Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, marries Joan Beaufort
• Temporary peace is declared between England and France with the marriage of Richard II of England and Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.
• France conquers the Republic of Genoa.
• After a fourteen-year period of interregnum, Peter of Saint Superan is declared as ruler of the Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece).
• In the "Battle of the Thirty", a mass trial by combat, the Clan Cameron defeat the Clan MacKintosh on the North Inch of Perth, Scotland.
• Queen Margaret of Norway, Denmark and Sweden makes her adopted son Eric of Pomerania joint ruler of Sweden. Eric had already been made joint ruler of Norway.
• Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
• Timur appoints his son Miran Shah as Timurid viceroy of Azerbaijan.
• The Kartid Dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah, son of Timur Lenk.
• Philibert de Naillac succeeds Juan Fernández de Heredia as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
• The Ulu Camii mosque is built in Bursa by the Ottomans.

Births

• July 31 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (died 1467)
• October 16 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (died 1450)
• date unknown
  • Alfonso V of Aragon (died 1458)
  • Ambroise de Loré, baron of Ivry in Normandy (died 1446)
  • John de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros (died 1421)
  • Paolo Uccello, painter (died 1475)

Deaths

• July 31 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
• November 29 – Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme (born 1373)
• date unknown
  • John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (born 1361)
  • Frederick II, margrave of Saluzzo
  • Saint Stephen of Perm (born 1340)