On the death of his father, Robert II, Robert III becomes king of Scotland

Charles VI, king of France, suffers the first of many violent fits of madness

Yi Song-gye founds the Yi dynasty, which rules in Korea until the twentieth century

The Ottoman sultan Bayazid I brings the Slav kingdom of Bulgaria under his control

The Golden Pavilion in Kyoto is built by the shogun Yoshimitsu as his own villa

With the coronation of the 16-year-old Eric of Pomerania, the crowns of Denmark, Norway and Sweden are formally united for the first time

Timur devastates Delhi and loots treasure to take back to Samarkand on 120 elephants

Richard II cedes his crown to Bolingbroke, as Henry IV, and a few months later dies in Pontefract castle - probably starved to death

The Welsh rise against the English and proclaim Owain Glyn Dwr as their own prince of Wales

The Ottoman sultan Bayazid is defeated and captured near Ankara by Timur, who keeps the sultan in captivity until his death the following year

Owain Glyn Dwr captures Aberystwyth and Harlech from the English and sets up an independent Welsh administration

Timur is buried in a mausoleum (the Gur Amir) in Samarkand, a city which becomes an inspiration to his descendants

On the death of his father, Robert III, James I becomes king of Scotland

Rivalry between factions of the French royal family results in the murder in Paris of the king's brother, Louis duke of Orléans, and the onset of civil war

Driven from Aberystwyth and Harlech, Owain Glyn Dwr loses support - and the last Welsh rebellion fades away

The Council at Pisa elects a new pope, Alexander V, without persuading the other two to resign - bringing the total to an unprecedented three

Shah Rukh, son of Timur, begins rebuilding the city of Herat

Henry V succeeds his father, Henry IV, as king of England

The Council of Constance, having done its best to dispose of the three existing popes, elects a new one - Martin V

John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, is murdered by the Armagnac faction in the presence of the dauphin - escalating France's civil war

The treaty of Troyes, between the English and the Burgundian faction, grants Henry V the status of heir to the French throne

Henry V marries Catherine, daughter of the French king and sister of the rightful heir to the kingdom, the dauphin, who is on the opposing side

The third Ming emperor moves the capital from Nanjing to Beijing and begins laying out the Forbidden City

The dauphin proclaims himself Charles VII of France, but with Paris in the hands of his enemies he is known as the king of Bourges

Henry VI, son of Henry V and Catherine of France, is king of England and theoretically king of France before his first birthday