Timeline May 1395

Events in May 1395 4

• 1371 – 1395 Maria, Queen of Hungary (1371-1395) Died 17 May 1395, aged 24 Maria was Queen of Hungary and Croatia in her own right and wife of Sigismund of Luxembourg. She died following a riding accident while pregnant, ending a reign marked by baronial revolts against her rule. Her death passed the Hungarian throne fully to Sigismund.
• 1394 – 1395 Richard II leads royal expedition to Ireland English king lands at Waterford to reassert authority over Irish lords Richard II landed in Ireland in October 1394 with a large army to reassert royal authority over Gaelic Irish chieftains and the Anglo-Irish lordship, the first visit by a reigning English king since King John nearly two centuries earlier. Several Irish lords submitted to him before he returned to England in May 1395.
• 1395 Richard II receives the submission of Irish chieftains English king's expedition ends with Gaelic lords acknowledging his overlordship During his expedition to Ireland, King Richard II of England secured formal submissions from leading Gaelic lords, including Art MacMurrough, in early 1395. Richard departed Ireland in May 1395 regarding the campaign as a success, though the submissions had little lasting effect. It was the last time an English king campaigned in Ireland for centuries.
• 1395 Battle of Rovine Mircea I of Wallachia halts an Ottoman invasion Wallachian forces under Mircea I met the invading army of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I at Rovine. The fighting was costly for both sides, but Bayezid withdrew without securing control of Wallachia. The battle preserved Wallachian autonomy in the face of Ottoman expansion into the Balkans.