Events

• July 18 - Tokhtamysh-Timur War: Battle of the Kondurcha River - Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present day southeast Russia.
• August 5 - Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. Many Jews leave Barcelona after the following massacres, though a large number remain in the city.
• Manuel II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine Emperor after his father, John V Palaiologos, dies of a nervous breakdown due to his continued humiliation by the Ottoman Empire.
• Yusuf II succeeds Muhammed V as Nasrid Sultan of Granada (now southern Spain).
• Stjepan Dabiša succeeds his uncle, Stefan Tvrtko I, as King of Bosnia.
• Shah Mansur becomes leader of the Timurid occupied Muzaffarid Empire in central Persia.
• A group of Muzaffarids under Zafar Khan Muzaffar establish a new Sultanate at Gujarat in western India.
• Vytautas the Great, claimant to the thrown of Lithuania, forms an alliance with Muscovy.
• Roman I succeeds Petru I as Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova and eastern Romania).
• Konrad von Wallenrode succeeds Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
• Bridget of Sweden is canonized by Pope Boniface IX.
• Ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod sack the Muscovy towns of Zhukotin and Kazan.
• The Chinese invent toilet paper for use by their emperors.
• Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, takes control of the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands.
• The University of Ferrara is founded in present-day Italy.
• Ming government orders 50 million trees planted in Nanjing area.
  

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