Sigismund crowned king of Hungary
1390
The young Luxembourg prince, son of Charles IV and husband of Mary of Hungary, took the Hungarian throne after his wife's death in a fall from horseback. He would rule Hungary for half a century, lead the disastrous Crusade of Nicopolis against the Ottomans, and eventually become Holy Roman Emperor.
In context
Also in 1390 (3 other events on record)
- Second pestilence of the fourteenth century ends · Europe · Disaster
- Koryo kingdom's final decline · East Asia · Politics
- Conrad Celtis brings humanism to German lands · Europe · Culture
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Politics
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.