1400s
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These are some important events that happened in the years from 1400 to 1410.
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 |
1400
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- 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
- 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
1401
- Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.
- A civil war starts in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1408
- December 13 – The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.
- Henry, Prince of Wales retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.
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.