4 March: | ![]() | Henry the Navigator, infante of the Kingdom of Portugal, is born in Oporto. |
26 March: | ![]() | Jews celebrate Pesach for the next seven or eight days. |
19 April: | ![]() | The resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated Easter Sunday following the first full moon following the spring equinox as described by the Council of Nicaea in 325. |
7 June: | ![]() | Seven weeks after Easter Christians celebrate Pentecost, possibly since 68 AD. |
30 June: | ![]() | The thirty days of Ramadan in the Islamic year 796 begin at the first sighting of the lunar crescent. |
30 July: | ![]() | Muslims celebrate the Conclusion of the Fast on the first day of the month Shawwal. |
13 September: | ![]() | Jews celebrate Yom Kippur since sunset last night. |
17 September: | ![]() | King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from his country. |
6 October: | ![]() | Muslims celebrate the Festival of Sacrifice on the tenth day of the month Dhu al-Hijjah. |
Geoffrey Chaucer, At the Battle of Shrewsbury king Henry IV of England defeats an army of rebels, Henry IV, Hongwu, Ibn Khaldun, Timur, Yongle, Wenceslas IV, Henry V and Cosimo de' Medici celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 1394 was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 1299, 1310, 1321, 1327, 1338, 1349, 1355, 1366, 1377 and 1383 in the century before it and 1400, 1405, 1411, 1422, 1433, 1439, 1450, 1461, 1467, 1478 and 1489 in the next.
The coloured days highlight
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The new
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2018 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.