1395

This article is about the year 1395.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1392 1393 1394 – 1395 – 1396 1397 1398

1395 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1395 in poetry

1395 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1395 MCCCXCV
Ab urbe condita	2148
Armenian calendar	844 ԹՎ ՊԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	6145
Bengali calendar	802
Berber calendar	2345
English Regnal year	18 Ric. 2 – 19 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1939
Burmese calendar	757
Byzantine calendar	6903–6904
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4091 or 4031     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4092 or 4032
Coptic calendar	1111–1112
Discordian calendar	2561
Ethiopian calendar	1387–1388
Hebrew calendar	5155–5156
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1451–1452
- Shaka Samvat	1316–1317
- Kali Yuga	4495–4496
Holocene calendar	11395
Igbo calendar	395–396
Iranian calendar	773–774
Islamic calendar	797–798
Japanese calendar	Ōei 2 (応永２年)
Javanese calendar	1309–1310
Julian calendar	1395 MCCCXCV
Korean calendar	3728
Minguo calendar	517 before ROC 民前517年
Nanakshahi calendar	−73
Thai solar calendar	1937–1938

Year 1395 (MCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• April 15 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
• May 1 – The Duchy of Milan is created after Lord Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan buys the title of Duke from Wenceslaus, the Holy Roman Emperor.
• May 17
  • Battle of Rovine: With the help of the Hungarians, Wallachia resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.
  • Mary of Hungary dies, ending of the reign of Hungary by the Capet-Anjou family. Her co-reigning estranged husband, King Sigismund, becomes sole ruler of Hungary.
• June 3 – Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire beheads Emperor Ivan Shishman of Ottoman-occupied eastern Bulgaria after Shishman is accused of collaborating with the Wallachians during the 1394 Battle of Karanovasa.
• August 29 - Albert IV succeeds his father, Albert III, as Duke of Austria.
• September 8 – The death of King Stjepan Dabiša leads to the election of his wife Jelena Gruba as Queen of Bosnia. However, most of the Bosnian land is soon appropriated by King Sigismund of Hungary.

Date unknown

• Ramaracha succeeds Ramesuan as ruler of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in present-day southern Thailand.
• Muhammad II succeeds Yûsuf I as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty in present-day western Algeria.
• The Gwanghwamun gate and the Jogyesa temple are built in present-day Seoul.
• The Theotokos of Vladimir icon is moved to Moscow.
• John Rykener, known also as Johannes Richer and Eleanor, a transvestite prostitute working mainly in London (near Cheapside), but also active in Oxford, is arrested for cross-dressing and interrogated. The records have survived, the only surviving legal records from this age which mention same-sex intercourse.

Births

• January 11 – Michele of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
• March 18 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
• September 7 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1427)
• date unknown
  • Fra Angelico, Italian painter (d. 1455)
  • Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (d. 1469)
  • George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher and scholar (d. 1484)
  • Jacques Cœur, French merchant (d. 1456)

Deaths

• March 13 – John Barbour, Scottish poet
• August 29 – Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
• date unknown
  • Acamapichtli, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
  • Queen Mary, co-ruler of Hungary
  • Prince Marko, Serbian leader