1398 - Definition and Overview

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.
• John of Gaunt third son of Edward III of England