1400s

These are some important events that happened in the years from 1400 to 1410.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 14th century15th century16th century
Decades: 1370s 1380s 1390s1400s1410s 1420s 1430s
Years: 1400 1401 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments

1400

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

Births

Deaths

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

1402

  • King Jogaila of the PolandLithuania 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

Births

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

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

Births

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

Deaths

1406

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

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
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