1401
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1401 (MCDI) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. It was the first year of the 15th century.
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Events of 1401
- Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.
- Passing of the De heretico comburendo Act in England – 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 the present-day Korea officially enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
- Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
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Births
- May 12 – Emperor Shoko of Japan (died 1428)
- July 23 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1466)
- October 27 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry VI of England (died 1437)
- November 26 – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (died 1418)
- December 21 – Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (died 1428)
- Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (died 1456)
- Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (died 1436)
- probable
- Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (died 1464)
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Deaths
- March – William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)
- April 8 (or August 8) Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (born 1338)
- October 20 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
- date unknown
- Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland
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