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Baghdad falls to Tamerlane, whose Tatar horsemen and archers overrun Mesopotamia (see 1391; Toqtamish, 1395).
The Ottoman sultan Bayazid I subdues Bulgaria as he extends his Balkan conquests (see Macedonia, 1392).
A German price table lists a pound of nutmeg as being worth seven fat oxen. In Europe one pound of saffron is generally equal in value to a plowhorse, one pound of ginger will buy a sheep, and two pounds of mace will buy a cow.
The Holy Roman Emperor Wenceslas of Bohemia has the ecclesiastic John of Nepomuk, 54, tortured and drowned in the Moldau at Prague March 20 for refusing to reveal the confessions of the empress. John will be canonized in 1729 and will be the patron saint of Bohemia.
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