1400s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s 1380s 1390s – 1400s – 1410s 1420s 1430s
Years:	1400 1401 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture; Establishments – Disestablishments

These are some important events that happened in the years from 1401 to 1410. It is distinct from the decade known as the 141th decade which began on January 1, 1401. and ended on December 31, 1410.

1400

Henry IV stops the Epiphany Rising. He kills the people who try to have Richard II of England restored as King.
The princes of the German states remove Wenceslaus as Holy Roman Emperor.
Rupert is elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
Owain Glyndŵr is called Prince of Wales by his followers. He begins attacking Englishplaces in north-east Wales.
Manuel II Palaiologos becomes the first (and last) Byzantine Emperor to visit England.
The Medici family becomes powerful in Florence.

Births

Luca della Robbia, Florentine sculptor
Owen Tudor, Welsh courtier (d. 1461)

Deaths

January 5 – John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed)
January 5 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (executed)
January 13 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (executed)
January 16 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed)
February 14 – King Richard II of England (probably murdered)
April 28 – Baldus de Ubaldis, Italian jurist
June 5 – Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, rival Holy Roman Emperor
October 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
December 24 – Archibald the Grim, Scottish magnate
Narayana Pandit, Indian mathematician

1401

Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.
A civil war starts in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.

Births

May 12 – Emperor Shoko of Japan
October 27 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry VI of England
December 21 – Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter

Deaths

October 20 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland

1402

King Jogaila of the Poland–Lithuania union marries Anna of Celje. She is a granddaughter of Casimir III of Poland.
May 21 – Following the death of Queen Maria of Sicily, her husband Martin I of Sicily marries Blanche of Navarre.
The University of Würzburg, Germany, is founded.
The Great Comet of 1402 is sighted.

Births

September 29 – Fernando, the Saint Prince of Portugal
Leonor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal

Deaths

March 26 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland
May 3 – João Anes, Archbishop of Lisbon
July 13 – Jianwen Emperor of China

1403

February 7 – King Henry IV of England marries Joanna of Navarre.
Henry 'Hotspur' Percy forms an alliance with Welsh rebel Owain Glyndŵr.
July 21 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats a rebel army led by "Hotspur" Percy. Percy is killed in the battle by an arrow in his face.
In China, the Ming Emperor Yongle moves the capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
The world's first quarantine station is built in Venice. It is to protect against the Black Death.
Stefan Lazarević makes Belgrade the capital of the Serbian Despotate.

Births

January 17 – George Kastrioti of Albania
February 22 – King Charles VII of France
June 11 – John IV, Duke of Brabant
Robert Wingfield, English politician
Louis III of Naples

Deaths

May 10 – Katherine Swynford, widow of John of Gaunt
May 12 – William de Lode, English prior
July 23 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed)
Beyazid, Ottoman Sultan
Hajji Zayn al-Attar, Persian physician
Đurađ II Stracimirović, Serbian nobleman

1404

June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr allies with the French against the English.
October 17 – Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX as the 204th pope.
November 19 – St. Elizabeth's flood ruins parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.
Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Canary Islands.
Stephan Tvrtko II succeeds Stefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia.
The University of Turin is founded.

Births

February 9 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor
February 18 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher
March 25 – (baptism) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader
June – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan
July 25 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant
September 10 – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat
October 14 – Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France
Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk

Deaths

April 27 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy
September 14 – Duke Albert IV of Austria
September 23 – Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia
September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman
October 1 – Pope Boniface IX
October 15 – Marie Valois, French princess
December 13 – Albert, Count of Holland

1405

June 8 – Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, were executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
Bath Abbey is built in England.
First written record of whiskey being drank is recorded in Ireland. It was distilled by Catholic monks.
Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies.

Births

March 6 – King John II of Castile
May 6 – George Kastrioti, Albanian national hero
October 18 – Pope Pius II

Deaths

February 14 – Timur, Turco-Mongol monarch and conqueror
May 29 – Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France

1406

April 4 – James I becomes King of Scotland.
October 26 – Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England.
November 30 – Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII as the 205th pope.
December 25 – John II becomes King of Castile.
Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing.

Births

September 26 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician
Ulrich II of Celje
Lorenzo Valla, humanist

Deaths

January 6 – Roger Walden, English bishop
March 19 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian
April 4 – King Robert III of Scotland
May 4 – Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence
July 15 – Duke William of Austria
August 28 – John de Sutton V
November 1 – Joanna, Duchess of Brabant
November 6 – Pope Innocent VII
December 25 – King Henry III of Castile

1407

April 10 – The fifth Karmapa finally visits the Ming Dynasty capital, then at Nanjing.
November 23 – The Duke of Orleans is killed; war starts again between the Burgundians and his followers.
Rudolfo Belenzani leads a revolt against Bishop Georg von Liechtenstein in Trento, Italy.

Births

March 15 – Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden
August 27 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun
Thomas de Littleton, English judge

Deaths

March 7 – Francesco I Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua
April 23 – Olivier de Clisson, French soldier
November 23 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France
Pero López de Ayala, Spanish soldier
Tokugawa Chikauji, Japanese nobleman

1408

December 13 – The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.
Henry, Prince of Wales retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.

Births

April 8 – Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess

Deaths

May 31 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun
Pope Matthew of Alexandria
Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor
Miran Shah, son of Timur

1409

January 1 – The Welsh surrender Harlech Castle to the English.
December 2 – The University of Leipzig opens.
Martin I of Aragon becomes King of Sicily.
Ulugh Beg becomes governor of Samarkand.
Venice buys the port of Zadar from Hungary.

Births

January 16 – René of Anjou
October 1 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden
Bernardo Rossellino, Florentine sculptor and architect

Deaths

May 13 – Jan z Tarnowa, Polish nobleman
May 22 – Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V
July 25 – King Martin I of Sicily
Thomas Merke, English bishop

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s 1380s 1390s – 1400s – 1410s 1420s 1430s
Years:	1400 1401 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments