1401
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Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
Decades: | 1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430s |
Years: | 1398 1399 1400 - 1401 - 1402 1403 1404 |
1401 in topic: |
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
Art - Literature - Music - Science |
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1401 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1401
- Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.
- The De heretico comburendo Act is passed in England, as 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 present-day Korea officially enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
- Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
Gregorian calendar | 1401 MCDI |
Ab urbe condita | 2154 |
Armenian calendar | 850 ԹՎ ՊԾ |
Bahá'í calendar | -443 – -442 |
Berber calendar | 2351 |
Buddhist calendar | 1945 |
Burmese calendar | 763 |
Chinese calendar | 4037/4097-12-17 (庚辰年十二月十七日) — to —
4038/4098-11-27(辛巳年十一月廿七日) |
Coptic calendar | 1117 – 1118 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1393 – 1394 |
Hebrew calendar | 5161 – 5162 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1456 – 1457 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1323 – 1324 |
- Kali Yuga | 4502 – 4503 |
Holocene calendar | 11401 |
Iranian calendar | 779 – 780 |
Islamic calendar | 803 – 804 |
Japanese calendar | Ōei 8 (応永8年) |
Korean calendar | 3734 |
Thai solar calendar | 1944 |
[edit] Births
- May 12 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428)
- July 23 - Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1466)
- October 27 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry VI of England (d. 1437)
- November 26 - Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (d. 1418)
- December 21 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
- Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1456)
- Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1436)
- probable
- Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1464)
[edit] Deaths
- March - William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)
- April 8 (or August 8) Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (b. 1338)
- October 20 - Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
- date unknown
- Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland