1404

October 17: Pope Innocent VII elected to succeed the late Pope Boniface IX.
1404 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1404
MCDIV
Ab urbe condita2157
Armenian calendar853
ԹՎ ՊԾԳ
Assyrian calendar6154
Balinese saka calendar1325–1326
Bengali calendar810–811
Berber calendar2354
English Regnal yearHen. 4 – 6 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar1948
Burmese calendar766
Byzantine calendar6912–6913
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
4101 or 3894
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4102 or 3895
Coptic calendar1120–1121
Discordian calendar2570
Ethiopian calendar1396–1397
Hebrew calendar5164–5165
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1460–1461
 - Shaka Samvat1325–1326
 - Kali Yuga4504–4505
Holocene calendar11404
Igbo calendar404–405
Iranian calendar782–783
Islamic calendar806–807
Japanese calendarŌei 11
(応永11年)
Javanese calendar1318–1319
Julian calendar1404
MCDIV
Korean calendar3737
Minguo calendar508 before ROC
民前508年
Nanakshahi calendar−64
Thai solar calendar1946–1947
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Water-Sheep)
1530 or 1149 or 377
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Monkey)
1531 or 1150 or 378

Year 1404 (MCDIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

  • January 14 – The fourth Parliament of King Henry IV of England opens for a session of two months.
  • February 10 – Thomas of Lancaster, the second son of King Henry IV of England, becomes Admiral of the North and South succeeding Admiral Thomas Beaufort.[1]
  • February 27King Guadarfia of the Canary Islands surrenders to the French explorer Jean de Béthencourt, who declares himself to be the new king, but subservient to the sponsor of the expedition, King Enrique III of Castile (part of modern-day Spain)[2]
  • March 1 – Under the Emperor Cheng Zu, China continues to build its fleet, ordering the construction of 50 new seagoing ships from the Capital Guards in Nanjing.[3]
  • March 20 – As the English Parliament adjourns, King Henry IV gives royal assent to acts that have passed, including the Multipliers Act, which declares "It shall be felony to use the craft of multiplication of gold or silver.", prohibiting any alchemists who has actually may have discovered how to perform transmutation of other substances into precious metals. The law remains in force until repealed 284 years later.

April–June

  • April 12 – Centurione II Zaccaria buys the Principality of Achaea, located on the Peloponnese peninsula in modern-day Greece, from King Ladislaus of Naples.[4]
  • April 25 – The War of Padua begins in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy as the army of the Republic of Venice, led by General Malatesta dei Sonetti, leads an attack on Padua, led by the Lord Francesco Novello da Carrara. The city of Vicenza surrenders to the Venetian troops on the same day, while the war against Padua last 19 months.[5]
  • April 27 – At Dijon, in France's Burgundian State, John the Fearless (Jean sans Peur), nephew of Charles VI of France, becomes the new Duke of Burgundy upon the death of his father, Philip the Bold.[6]
  • April or May – Battle of Blackpool Sands: Local English forces defeat an attempted raid from Saint-Malo on the port of Dartmouth, Devon; the French commander, William du Chastel, is killed.[7][8]
  • May 22 – The Peace of Raciążek treaty is signed by the representatives of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland, by the Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania, and by the Teutonic Knights.
  • June 14 – Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr enters an alliance with the French against the English. He has begun to hold parliamentary assemblies (first on May 10 at Dolgellau).[9]
  • June 21 – The formal coronation of Owain Glyndŵr as Prince of Wales takes place at Harlech.[10]

July–September

  • July 27 – In Southern India, Bukka Raya II becomes the new ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in what are the modern-day Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.[11]
  • September 14 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria, dies at the age of 26 from an illness contracted while he was fighting against Bohemia and Moravia for control of the city of Znaim (modern Znojmo in the Czech Republic).[12] He is succeeded as Duke by his 6-year old son, Albert.

October–December

  • October 16 – The 5th Parliament of King Henry IV of England (summoned August 25), nicknamed "The Unlearned Parliament" because Henry refuses to allow lawyers to sit, opens for a four week session in Coventry, closing on November 13.
  • October 17 – Cosimo de' Migliorati, Cardinal of the Basilica Cross in Jerusalem, is elected unanimously by eight cardinals to succeed the late Pope Boniface IX. Migliorati takes the papal name Innocent VII as the 204th pope of the Roman Catholic Church.[13]
  • November 19 – The St. Elizabeth's flood of the North Sea devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.
  • December 16 – Willem VI becomes the new Count of Holland upon the death of his father, Albrecht I, Duke of Lower Bavaria.[14]

Date unknown

  • Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Canary Islands.
  • Stephan Tvrtko II succeeds Stefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia.
  • Peace is declared between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights, after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance against Muscovy.
  • A civil war, lasting two years, breaks out in the Majapahit Empire in modern-day Indonesia.
  • Wallachia reaches its maximum extent under Mircea cel Bătrân.
  • The University of Turin is founded.
  • Timur is hit by a fever, while preparing to invade China.
  • Virupaksha Raya succeeds Harihara Raya II, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in modern-day southern India.
  • Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat as King of Cambodia.
  • Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Óg MacDermot as King of Magh Luirg, in what later becomes northeast Connacht, Ireland.

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, The History of England, Volume 5, (J. and P. Knapton, 1747) p.271
  2. ^ Léon Guérin, Histoire maritime de France contenant (Paris: Dufour et Mulat, 1851) p. 341
  3. ^ Dreyer, Edward L. (2007), Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433, New York: Pearson Longman, p. 105, ISBN 978-0-321-08443-9, OCLC 64592164
  4. ^ Dourou-Iliopoulou, Maria (2019). Angevins and Aragonese in the Mediterranean. Athens: Herodotus. p. 167. ISBN 978-960-485-325-0.
  5. ^ Mallett, Michael E. (1996). "La conquista della Terraferma". Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima. Vol. IV, Il rinascimento: politica e cultura (History of Venice from its origins to the fall of the Serenissima. Vol. IV, The Renaissance: Politics and Culture) (in Italian). Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. pp. 181–240. OCLC 644711024.
  6. ^ Poupardin, René (2011). "John, Duke of Burgundy". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15. Cambridge University Press. pp. 445–446.
  7. ^ Longmate, Norman (1990). Defending the Island. London: Grafton. ISBN 0-586-20845-3.
  8. ^ Mortimer, Ian (2007). The Fears of Henry IV. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-07300-4.
  9. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 115–117. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  10. ^ Terry Breverton, Owain Glyndwr: The Story of the Last Prince of Wales (Amberley Publishing, 2009)
  11. ^ Lakshmi, Kumari Jhansi (1958). "The Chronology of the Sangama Dynasty". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 21: 290–297. JSTOR 44145214.
  12. ^ Previte-Orton, C.W. (1952). The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History: The Twelfth Century to the Renaissance. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press.
  13. ^ "Pope Innocent VII, by Michael Ott, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 8 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910), retrieved December 19, 2018
  14. ^ Stein, Robert (2017). Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States: The Unification of the Burgundian Netherlands, 1380-1480. Oxford University Press. p. 37.