Crusade of Nicopolis routed by Bayezid
September 1396
A Franco-Burgundian crusader army led by Sigismund of Hungary and John the Fearless besieged the Bulgarian Danube fortress and was crushed by the Ottoman relief column in a battle that exposed the tactical obsolescence of western chivalric warfare. Bayezid had several thousand prisoners beheaded the next day. Western Europe would not seriously threaten the Ottomans again for fifty years.
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Also in 1396 (4 other events on record)
- Turko-Mongol traveler Hafiz dies in Shiraz · Middle East · Culture
- Ludovico Trevisan records Dalmatian plague · Europe · Science
- Manuel II Palaiologos begs Paris for help · Europe · Politics
- Ottomans plant the Ghazi warrior ethos at Nicopolis · Middle East · Religion
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.