1408
1408
Calendar year
Year 1408 (MCDVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
This article is about the year 1408. For the short story by Stephen King, see 1408 (short story). For the film, see 1408 (film).
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Quick Facts
| Gregorian calendar | 1408 MCDVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2161 |
| Armenian calendar | 857 ԹՎ ՊԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6158 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1329–1330 |
| Bengali calendar | 815 |
| Berber calendar | 2358 |
| English Regnal year | 9 Hen. 4 – 10 Hen. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1952 |
| Burmese calendar | 770 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6916–6917 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4105 or 3898 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4106 or 3899 |
| Coptic calendar | 1124–1125 |
| Discordian calendar | 2574 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1400–1401 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5168–5169 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1464–1465 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1329–1330 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4508–4509 |
| Holocene calendar | 11408 |
| Igbo calendar | 408–409 |
| Iranian calendar | 786–787 |
| Islamic calendar | 810–811 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 15 (応永１５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1322–1323 |
| Julian calendar | 1408 MCDVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3741 |
| Minguo calendar | 504 before ROC 民前504年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −60 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1950–1951 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1534 or 1153 or 381 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1535 or 1154 or 382 |
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January–December
- February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: A royalist army defeats the last remnants of the Percy Rebellion.
- September – Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.
- September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland.
- December 5 – Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
- December 13 – The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.
Date unknown
- January 25 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
- February 14 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
- March 25 – Agnes of Baden, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg, German noble (d. 1473)
- April 8 – Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (d. 1431)
- April 23 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1462)
- May 22 – Annamacharya, Indian mystic saint composer (d. 1503)
- October 1 or 1409 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden (d. 1470)
- February 19 – Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel (in battle)
- February 20 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English rebel (in battle) (b. 1341)[2]
- April – Miran Shah, son of Timur the Lame (b. 1366)
- April 10 or April 11 – Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
- May 24 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
- May 31 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1358)
- September 15 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (b. 1384)
- September 22 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)
- December 4 – Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans by marriage to Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
- date unknown – Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria[3]
- "Yongle dadian | Chinese encyclopaedia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
- "Henry Percy, 1st earl of Northumberland | Lancastrian, Battle of Towton, Yorkist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
- Gabra, Gawdat; Takla, Hany N. (2017). Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta. Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9789774167775.