1416

Events 
 January 27 – Republic of Dubrovnik is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.
 May 30 – The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.
 Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge destroyed, the longest arch bridge in the world at the time

 Births 
March 27 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (died 1480)
October 26 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (died 1490)
date unknown
Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (died 1470)
Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (died 1507)
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (died 1469)
probable – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (died 1472)

 Deaths 
February 27 – Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre
March 15 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (born 1340)
April 2 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (born 1379)
May 21 – Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (born 1386)
May 30 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (born 1379)
December 3 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg