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| 1390 |
| | | On the death of his father, Robert II, Robert III becomes king of Scotland | |
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| c. 1390 |
| | | Fan vaulting becomes part of the Gothic tradition, seen to perfection in the cloisters of Gloucester cathedral | |
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| 1391 |
| | | Construction begins on a canal from Lübeck south to the Elbe, linking the Baltic and the North Sea | |
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| 1392 |
| | | Charles VI, king of France, suffers the first of many violent fits of madness | |
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| 1392 |
| | | Yi Song-gye founds the Yi dynasty, which rules in Korea until the twentieth century | |
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| 1393 |
| | | The Ottoman sultan Bayazid I brings the Slav kingdom of Bulgaria under his control | |
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| 1394 |
| | | Anne of Bohemia, the wife of Richard II, dies of plague at Richmond and in his distress the king orders the palace to be demolished | |
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| 1395 |
| | | Philip II of Burgundy commissions from Netherlands sculptor Claus Sluter a work, the Well of Moses, which launches the northern Renaissance | |
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| c. 1397 |
| | | The English king, Richard II, commissions a diptych (the Wilton Diptych) showing himself being presented to the Virgin and Child | |
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| c. 1397 |
| | | The keyboard of the organ is adapted in Germany to strings, thus providing the harpsichord - first mentioned in a manuscript of this year | |
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