Events of 1395

• May 17 - Battle of Rovine: With the help of the Hungarians, Wallacia resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.
• Tokhtamysh-Timur war: 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Jelena Gruba is elected as Queen of Bosnia after the death of her husband, King Stjepan Dabiša. However, after Stjepan's death most of the Bosnian land is taken by King Sigismund of Hungary.
• Huitzilíhuitl succeeds his father, Acamapichtli, as ruler of the Aztecs.
• Albert IV succeeds his father, Albert III, as Duke of Austria.
• The Principality of Monaco expels their Genoese occupiers and Jean I and Louis are crowned as joint Lords of Monaco. Later in the year, the Genoese regain control and depose the Lords.
• Rama Ratchathirat succeeds Ramesuan as King of the Ayutthaya kingdom (now southern Thailand).
• Muhammad II succeeds Yûsuf I as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty in present-day western Algeria.
• The Duchy of Milan is created after Lord Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan buys the title of Duke from Wenceslaus, the Holy Roman Emperor.
• Battle of Cruachain: The Kingdom of Ui Falighe (now in Ireland) resists an English invasion.
• Bunei succeeds his father, Satto, as King of Chūzan (now central Okinawa, Japan).
• The Gwanghwamun gate and the Jogyesa temple are built in present-day Seoul.

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