Battle of Kosovo Polje
June 1389
On the field of blackbirds, Serbian Prince Lazar's coalition met Murad I's Ottomans and was destroyed. Lazar was captured and beheaded. Murad himself was assassinated in his tent by a Serb feigning surrender. Serbia became an Ottoman vassal. The battle would crystallize into the central trauma of Serbian national memory.
In context
Also in 1389 (4 other events on record)
- Bayezid I succeeds murdered Murad · Middle East · Politics
- Ming maritime ban begins to take shape · East Asia · Politics
- Tlatoani Acamapichtli dies in Tenochtitlán · North America · Politics
- Ming shipbuilding yards expand at Longjiang · East Asia · Politics
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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