1405

Year 1405 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1405

* May 29 - Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, meets Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home and then imprisons them.
* June 8 - Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, is executed in York on Henry IV's orders.

* Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes "The Book of the City of Ladies".
* Bath Abbey is built in England.
* "Bellifortis", a book on military techonology, is published by Konrad Kyeser.
* Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
* First written record of whiskey being consumed recorded in Ireland, where it was distilled by Catholic monks.
* Ming Dynasty troops attacked Lanna Kingdom with Sipsongpanna support.

Births

* March 6 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
* May 6 (probable) - Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero (d. 1468)
* October 18 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)

Deaths

* January 12 - Eleanor Maltravers, English noblewoman (b. 1345)
* February 14 - Timur (aka Tamerlane), Turco-Mongol monarch and conqueror (b.1336)
* May 29 - Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
* June 20 - Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, fourth son of King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1343) - "the Wolf of Badenoch"
* August 17 - Thomas West, 1st Baron West (b. 1335)
*"probable" - Jean Froissart, French chronicler (b. 1337)