1409

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June 26: Council of Pisa crowns a third Pope, Alexander V, to rival Pope Gregory XIII and Rome's Pope Benedict XIII and Avignon's Pope Benedict XIII
1409 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1409
MCDIX
Ab urbe condita2162
Armenian calendar858
ԹՎ ՊԾԸ
Assyrian calendar6159
Balinese saka calendar1330–1331
Bengali calendar815–816
Berber calendar2359
English Regnal year10 Hen. 4 – 11 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar1953
Burmese calendar771
Byzantine calendar6917–6918
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4106 or 3899
    — to —
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4107 or 3900
Coptic calendar1125–1126
Discordian calendar2575
Ethiopian calendar1401–1402
Hebrew calendar5169–5170
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1465–1466
 - Shaka Samvat1330–1331
 - Kali Yuga4509–4510
Holocene calendar11409
Igbo calendar409–410
Iranian calendar787–788
Islamic calendar811–812
Japanese calendarŌei 16
(応永１６年)
Javanese calendar1323–1324
Julian calendar1409
MCDIX
Korean calendar3742
Minguo calendar503 before ROC
民前503年
Nanakshahi calendar−59
Thai solar calendar1951–1952
Tibetan calendarས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Earth-Rat)
1535 or 1154 or 382
    — to —
ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་
(female Earth-Ox)
1536 or 1155 or 383

Year 1409 (MCDIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

  • January 1 – The Welsh surrender Harlech Castle to the English.
  • January 18 – The Decree of Kutná Hora strengthens the Bohemian nation at the cost of foreign, mostly German speaking students at the University of Prague. Over a thousand students leave Prague as a consequence, choosing instead the universities of Heidelberg and the new University of Leipzig established later in the year.
  • February 15 – The Galle Trilingual Inscription, with inscriptions in three languages (Chinese, Tamil and Persian) is installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He at Galle in Sri Lanka, where he has stopped while on his way home during the second of his treasure voyages.[1]
  • February 24 – Traveling in Valencia in Aragon, Father Joan Gilabert Jofré, known as "Padre Jofré", witnesses a mentally ill man being beaten by two young attackers. After rescuing the victim, Jofré resolves to create the Hospital dels Ignoscents, the world's first psychiatric hospital.[2]
  • March 25 – On the day of the Feast of the Annunciation, the Council of Pisa opens at the Cathedral of Pisa with 22 cardinals, four patriarchs and 80 bishops to seek an end to the Western Schism and resolve the conflict between Pope Gregory XII of the Rome and Antipope Benedict XIII of Avignon.[3]

April–June

  • April 25 – Hussite Wars: King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia decides to stop fighting the war against the rebel Jan Žižka in Budějovice.[4]
  • May 10 – The Council of Pisa votes on the matter of whether to remove the warring popes Gregory XII and Benedict XIII. All but two of the clerics present vote for them to be deposed, with the exception of Cardinal Gui de Maillesec and Cardinal Niccolò Brancaccio, who ask for more time to consider.[5]
  • May 13 – The Timurid War of Succession comes to an end as Khalil Sultan surrenders Samarkand to Shah Rukh, ruler of the Timurid Empire since 1405. Shah Rukh installs his son Ulugh Beg as Governor of Transoxiana.[6][7] Shah Rukh then appoints Khalil as Governor of Shahr-e Rey in modern-day Iran.[8]
  • May 18 – Pir Muhammad, the son of Timurid Emperor Umar Shaikh, is assassinated near Shiraz by his own soldiers.[9]
  • May 26 – The second Samogitian Uprising begins in modern-day Lithuania against the Teutonic Knights who had been granted the rights to the Duchy of Samogita by the Peace of Raciążek in 1402.[10]
  • June 5 – The Council of Pisa issues the order deposing both Gregory XII and Benedict XIII who are responsible for the Western Schism.[11]
  • June 26 – By order of the Council of Pisa, Pietro Filargo is crowned as Pope Alexander V, producing the anomaly of three different popes of the Roman Catholic church.[12]
  • June 27 – Bohemia's King Wenceslaus pardons rebel leader Jan Zizka, and orders the city of Budejovice to do so as well.[4]
The Battle of Sanluri

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

  • January 16 – René of Anjou, king of Naples (d. 1480)[19]
  • March 2 – Jean II, Duke of Alençon, son of John I of Alençon and Marie of Brittany (d. 1476)
  • March 12 – Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra, Portuguese Duchess (d. 1459)
  • September 13 – Joan of Valois, Duchess of Alençon, French duchess (d. 1432)
  • October 7 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1442)
  • October 21 – Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1473)
  • date unknown – Bernardo Rossellino, Florentine sculptor and architect

Deaths

  • May 13 – Jan of Tarnów, Polish nobleman
  • May 22 – Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)
  • July 25 – King Martin I of Sicily (b. 1374)
  • September 13 – Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (b. 1387)[20]
  • date unknown – Thomas Merke, English bishop
  • probable – Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (b. 1376)

References

  1. ^ Dreyer, Edward L. (2007). Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433. New York: Pearson Longman. p. 66. ISBN 978-0321084439.
  2. ^ "Concluye fase diocesana del proceso de canonización del Padre Jofré" (in Spanish; "Diocesan stage of canonization of Padre Jofre Completed") publ. ACI, February 8, 2007, accessed July 11, 2011
  3. ^ J. D. Mansi, Tomus XXVII|Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio (Venice: Antonius Zatta 1784), p.115
  4. ^ a b František Šmahel, Die Hussitische Revolution I–III, MGH-Schriften. 43/I–III, Hannover (2002) pp.32-33
  5. ^ Valois, Noël (1902). La France et le grand schisme d'Occident: Recours au Concile général (in French). Vol. Tome IV. Paris: A. Picard et fils. p. 96.
  6. ^ Abazov, Rafis (5 February 2008). Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia. Springer. p. 72. ISBN 9780230610903.
  7. ^ Woods, John E. (1990). The Timurid dynasty. Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. pp. 2, 14, 20.
  8. ^ "The Successors of Timur", by H. R. Roemer, in The Cambridge History of Iran Volume 6: The Timurid and Safavid Periods, ed. by Peter Jackson (Cambridge University Press, 1986) ISBN 0-521-20094-6
  9. ^ Manz, Beatrice Forbes (2007). Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran. Cambridge University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-139-46284-6.
  10. ^ a b Turnbull, Stephen (2003), Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights, Campaign Series, vol. 122, London: Osprey Publishing, p. 20, ISBN 978-1-84176-561-7
  11. ^ Lenfant, Jacques (1724). Histoire du concile de Pise (in French and Latin). Vol. Tome premier. Amsterdam: chez Pierre Humbert. pp. 80–82.
  12. ^ Carl Joseph Hefele, Tome VII, première partie|Histoire des Conciles (ed. H. Leclercq). ] (Paris: Letouzey, 1916) pp. 57–58.(in French)
  13. ^ Josep-David Garrido i Valls, Life and reign of Martí I (Rafael Dalmau Editorial, 2010) pp. 256-264. ISBN 978-84-232-0748-0.
  14. ^ "Croatia", by M. D. Kampotic, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, ed. by Charles G. Herbermann, et al., Volume IV (Robert Appleton Company, 1908) p.511
  15. ^ a b "Universität Leipzig 600th Anniversary". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
  16. ^ Knecht, Robert (2007). The Valois: Kings of France 1328–1589. A&C Black. p. 54.
  17. ^ "Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn", in Oxford History of England, 1399-1485, pp. 37-51
  18. ^ Martinsson, Örjan. "Gotland". www.tacitus.nu. Tacitus.nu. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  19. ^ "René I | duke of Anjou". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  20. ^ Panton, James (24 February 2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy. Scarecrow Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8.
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