1417

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Year 1417 (MCDXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• June 24 – The Isle of Man holds the first known Tynwald Day; the annual meeting of its parliament (Tynwald) which has continued every year until the present.
• July 27 – Avignon Pope Benedict XIII is deposed, bringing to an end the Great Western Schism.
• August 12 – King Henry V of England begins using English in correspondence (back to England from France whilst on campaign), marking the beginning of this king's continuous usage of English in prose, and the beginning of the restoration of English as an official language for the first time since the Norman Conquest, some 350 years earlier.
• November 11 – Pope Martin V succeeds Pope Gregory XII (who abdicated in 1415) as the 206th pope.

Date unknown

• The use of street lighting is first recorded in London, when Sir Henry Barton, the mayor, orders lanterns with lights to be hung out on the winter evenings between Hallowtide and Candlemas.

Births

• February 23 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
• June 19 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (d. 1468)
• November 23 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
• date unknown
  • Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, regent of Sweden 1457 and 1465–1466, archbishop of Uppsala 1448–1467
  • Nicholas of Flüe, Swiss hermit and saint (d. 1487)

Deaths

• January – Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (b. 1357)
• March 5 – Manuel III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1364)
• April 29 – Louis II of Naples (b. 1377)
• September 4 – Robert Hallam, English Catholic bishop
• September 16 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
• October 18 – Pope Gregory XII
• November 17 – Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (b. 1288)
• December 14 – John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader
• probable – Huitzilíhuitl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan

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