1401

1401 (MCDI) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.  It was the first year of the 15th century.

 Events of 1401 
 Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.
 Passing of the De heretico comburendo Act in England – the Archbishop of Canterbury pressures King Henry IV of England into outlawing as heretics anyone owning an English translation of the Bible.
Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northern India.
Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania is granted increased autonomy by King Jogaila of the Poland-Lithuania union.
Emperor Ho Quy Ly of Dai Ngu (now Vietnam) passes the throne to his son, Thai Thuong Hoang.
A civil war, lasting four years, breaks out in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.
 The Joseon Dynasty in the present-day Korea officially enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.

 Births 
 May 12 – Emperor Shoko of Japan (died 1428)
July 23 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1466)
 October 27 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry VI of England (died 1437)
 November 26 – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (died 1418)
December 21 – Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (died 1428)
 Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (died 1456)
 Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (died 1436)
probable
Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (died 1464)

 Deaths 
March – William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)
April 8 (or August 8) Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (born 1338)
October 20 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
date unknown
Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland