1396

1396 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1396; MCCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2149
Armenian calendar	845; ԹՎ ՊԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6146
Balinese saka calendar	1317–1318
Bengali calendar	803
Berber calendar	2346
English Regnal year	19 Ric. 2 – 20 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1940
Burmese calendar	758
Byzantine calendar	6904–6905
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig); 4092 or 4032; — to —; 丙子年 (Fire Rat); 4093 or 4033
Coptic calendar	1112–1113
Discordian calendar	2562
Ethiopian calendar	1388–1389
Hebrew calendar	5156–5157
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1452–1453
- Shaka Samvat	1317–1318
- Kali Yuga	4496–4497
Holocene calendar	11396
Igbo calendar	396–397
Iranian calendar	774–775
Islamic calendar	798–799
Japanese calendar	Ōei 3; (応永３年)
Javanese calendar	1310–1311
Julian calendar	1396; MCCCXCVI
Korean calendar	3729
Minguo calendar	516 before ROC; 民前516年
Nanakshahi calendar	−72
Thai solar calendar	1938–1939
Tibetan calendar	阴木猪年; (female Wood-Pig); 1522 or 1141 or 369; — to —; 阳火鼠年; (male Fire-Rat); 1523 or 1142 or 370

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

Year 1396 was a leap year starting on Saturday.

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)

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