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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: 1398 births, 1398 by country, 1398 deaths, 1398 establishments, 1398 in Europe, 1398 in law, Johannes Gutenberg, Moctezuma I, Hongwu Emperor, Emperor Suk, Vuk Brankovi, Francesco Filelfo, Mount Grace Priory, Alexander de Kylwos, Ludwik I the Fair, James I of Cyprus, Treaty of Salynas, Xuande Emperor, Ashikaga Ujimitsu, Jeong Do-jeon, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, Johann III, Count of Sponheim-Starkenburg, Ashikaga Mochiuji, Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France, Seonggyungwan, John, Dauphin of France, Duke of Touraine, Alfonso Martinez de Toledo, Julian Cesarini, Henry VIII of Legnica, Vladimir Olgerdovich, Luca Pitti, Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Ferapontov Monastery, Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, Helvig of Schauenburg, Al-Mutawakkil al-Mutahhar, Matthew, Count of Foix, Robert Waldby, List of state leaders in 1398, Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen, Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, Marie, Countess of Harcourt, Rupert II, Elector Palatine, Jakob Fugger the Elder, Andrzej Jastrz biec, Seonggyungwan Munmyo, Spytek of Melsztyn, Robert Sinclair, Goj in Crnojevi, Biordo Michelotti, James Pickering, Antoniotto di Montaldo, Robert Alyngton, Yu Qian, Eleanor Percy, Countess of Northumberland, Ralph de Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, Caterina Appiani, Gabriele Adorno, Ofusato, 1398 in Ireland. Excerpt: The Hongwu Emperor (Chinese: Wade-Giles: Hung-wu Ti; 21 October, 1328 - 24 June 1398), known variably by his given name Zhu Yuanzhang (Chinese: Wade-Giles: Chu Yuan-chang) and by his temple name Taizu of Ming (Chinese: literally "Great Ancestor of Ming"), was the founder and first emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China. His era name, Hongwu, means "vastly martial." In the middle of the 14th century, with famine, plagues and peasant revolts sweeping across China, Z...