- 1401
Year 1401 was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1401
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Timur raids the city ofBaghdad in theJalayirid Empire.
* TheDe heretico comburendo Act is passed inEngland , as theArchbishop of Canterbury pressures KingHenry IV of England into outlawing asheretics anyone owning an English translation of theBible .
*Dilawar Khan establishes theMalwa Sultanate in present-day northernIndia .
* Grand DukeVytautas ofLithuania is granted increased autonomy by KingJogaila of thePoland -Lithuania union.
* Emperor Ho Quy Ly of Dai Ngu (nowVietnam ) passes the throne to his son, Thai Thuong Hoang.
* A civil war, lasting four years, breaks out in theMajapahit Empire in present-dayIndonesia .
* TheJoseon Dynasty in present-dayKorea officially enters into a tributary relationship withMing Dynasty China.
*Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship withMing Dynasty China.Births
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May 12 -Emperor Shoko of Japan (d.1428 )
*July 23 -Francesco I Sforza , Duke of Milan (d.1466 )
*October 27 -Catherine of Valois , queen ofHenry 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 )Deaths
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March -William Sawtrey , English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)
*April 8 (orAugust 8 )Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (b.1338 )
*October 20 -Klaus Störtebeker , German pirate
*"date unknown"
**Anabella Drummond , queen of Scotland
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