Title: 1400s Content: These are some important events that happened in the years from 1400 to 1410. __NOTOC__ ==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