1398
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 August 19 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458) Johann Gutenberg, inventor credited with mass printing.
Deaths January 31 - Emperor Suko of Japan (b. 1334) June 24 - Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (b. 1328) July 20 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March Jeong Dojeon, Korean Neo-Confucian ideologue. John of Gaunt third son of Edward III of England
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