1404
1404
Calendar year
Year 1404 (MCDIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
This article is about the year 1404. For the computer game, see Anno 1404.
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2021) |
Quick Facts
| Gregorian calendar | 1404 MCDIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2157 |
| Armenian calendar | 853 ԹՎ ՊԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6154 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1325–1326 |
| Bengali calendar | 811 |
| Berber calendar | 2354 |
| English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 4 – 6 Hen. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1948 |
| Burmese calendar | 766 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6912–6913 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4101 or 3894 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4102 or 3895 |
| Coptic calendar | 1120–1121 |
| Discordian calendar | 2570 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1396–1397 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5164–5165 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1460–1461 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1325–1326 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4504–4505 |
| Holocene calendar | 11404 |
| Igbo calendar | 404–405 |
| Iranian calendar | 782–783 |
| Islamic calendar | 806–807 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 11 (応永１１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1318–1319 |
| Julian calendar | 1404 MCDIV |
| Korean calendar | 3737 |
| Minguo calendar | 508 before ROC 民前508年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −64 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1946–1947 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1530 or 1149 or 377 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1531 or 1150 or 378 |
Close
January–December
- 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.[1][2]
- June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English. He later begins holding parliamentary assemblies.
- October 17 – Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX, as the 204th pope.
- November 19 – St. Elizabeth's flood: A flood of the North Sea devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.
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.
- 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.
- Centurione II Zaccaria succeeds Maria II Zaccaria, as ruler of the Principality of Achaea.
- Virupaksha Raya succeeds Harihara Raya II, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-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 present-day northeast Connacht, Ireland.
- The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.
- January 18 – Sir Philip Courtenay, British noble (d. 1463)
- February 14 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472)
- March 25 (bapt.) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
- June – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1451)
- July 6 – Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (d. 1473)
- July 25 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
- September 30 – Anne of Burgundy (d. 1432)
- September – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat (d. 1440)
- October 14 – Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France (d. 1463)
- April 27 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
- September 14 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
- September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (b. 1320)
- October 1 – Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
- October 15 – Marie Valois, French princess (b. 1344)
- December 13 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336)
- date unknown – Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (b. 1350)
- Longmate, Norman (1990). Defending the Island. London: Grafton. ISBN 0-586-20845-3.
- Mortimer, Ian (2007). The Fears of Henry IV. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-07300-4.