1400

Year 1400 (MCD) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The year 1400 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian Calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1397 1398 1399 1400 1401 1402 1403

1400 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1400 MCD
Ab urbe condita	2153
Armenian calendar	849 ԹՎ ՊԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6150
Balinese saka calendar	1321–1322
Bengali calendar	807
Berber calendar	2350
English Regnal year	1 Hen. 4 – 2 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1944
Burmese calendar	762
Byzantine calendar	6908–6909
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4096 or 4036     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4097 or 4037
Coptic calendar	1116–1117
Discordian calendar	2566
Ethiopian calendar	1392–1393
Hebrew calendar	5160–5161
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1456–1457
- Shaka Samvat	1321–1322
- Kali Yuga	4500–4501
Holocene calendar	11400
Igbo calendar	400–401
Iranian calendar	778–779
Islamic calendar	802–803
Japanese calendar	Ōei 7 (応永７年)
Javanese calendar	1314–1315
Julian calendar	1400 MCD
Korean calendar	3733
Minguo calendar	512 before ROC 民前512年
Nanakshahi calendar	−68
Thai solar calendar	1942–1943
Tibetan calendar	阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1526 or 1145 or 373     — to — 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 1527 or 1146 or 374

Events

January–December

• Henry IV of England quells the Epiphany Rising and executes the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury, and the Baron le Despencer, for their attempt to have Richard II restored as king.
• February – Henry Percy (Hotspur) leads English incursions into Scotland.
• February 14 – The deposed Richard II of England dies by means unknown in Pontefract Castle. It is likely that King Henry IV ordered his death by starvation, to prevent further uprisings.
• March 23 – Five-year-old Trần Thiếu Đế is forced to abdicate as ruler of Đại Việt (modern-day Vietnam), in favour of his maternal grandfather and court official Hồ Quý Ly, ending the Trần Dynasty after 175 years and starting the Hồ Dynasty. Hồ Quý Ly subsequently changes the country's name to Đại Ngu.
• May – Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg is declared as a rival to Wenceslaus, King of the Romans. However, Frederick is murdered shortly after.
• August
  • The English occupy Edinburgh in Scotland,[1] but fail to capture Edinburgh Castle.
  • The princes of the German states vote to depose Wenceslaus as King of the Romans, due to his weak leadership and mental illnesses.
• August 21 – Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, is elected as King of the Romans.
• September 16 – Owain Glyndŵr is proclaimed Prince of Wales by his followers, and begins attacking English strongholds in north-east Wales.
• October/November – Sack of Aleppo (1400) during Timur's conquest of Syria.
• December – Manuel II Palaiologos becomes the only Byzantine Emperor ever to visit England.

Date unknown

• Timur defeats both the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, to capture the city of Damascus in present-day Syria. Much of the city's inhabitants are subsequently massacred by Timur's troops.
• Timur conquers the Empire of The Black Sheep Turkomans, in present-day Azerbaijan, and the Jalayirid Dynasty in present-day Iraq. Black Sheep ruler Qara Yusuf and Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad flee, and take refuge with the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I.
• In modern-day Korea, King Jeongjong of Joseon abdicates in fear of an attack by his ambitious younger brother, Taejong. Taejong succeeds to the throne.
• Prince Parameswara establishes the Malacca Sultanate, in present-day western Malaysia and northern Sumatra.
• Hananchi succeeds Min as King of Hokuzan, in modern-day north Okinawa, Japan.
• Wallachia (modern-day southern Romania) resists an invasion by the Ottomans.
• A Wallachian army captures Iuga, and makes Alexandru cel Bun the Prince of Moldavia.
• The Kingdom of Kongo begins.
• The Haast's eagle and Moa are both driven to extinction by Māori hunters.
• The Mississippian culture starts to decline.
• Europe is reported to have around 52 million inhabitants.
• The House of Medici becomes powerful in Florence.
• Newcastle upon Tyne is created a county corporate, by Henry IV of England.
• Jean Froissart completes his Chronicles, detailing the events of the 14th Century in France.

Births

• January 13 – Infante John of Portugal, the Constable (d. 1442)
• May 19 – John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, English baron (d. 1462)
• July 26 – Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester, English noble (d. 1439)
• December 25 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1487)
• date unknown
  • James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (d. 1459)
  • Luca della Robbia, Florentine sculptor (d. 1482)
  • Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1453).
  • Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (d. 1460)
  • Owen Tudor, Welsh courtier (d. 1461)
  • Rogier van der Weyden, Dutch painter (or 1399)
  • Hans Multscher, German painter and sculptor (d. 1467)
  • Helene Kottanner, Hungarian writer and courtier (d. after 1470)
• probable
  • Marina Nani, Venetian dogaressa (d. 1473)
  • Giovanna Dandolo, Venetian dogaressa (d. after 1462)
  • Johannes Gutenberg[2] (d. 1468)

Deaths

Richard II of England

Geoffrey Chaucer

• January 7
  • Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (executed) (b. 1374)
  • John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (executed) (b. 1350)
• January 13 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (executed) (b. 1373)
• January 16 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed)
• February 14 – King Richard II of England, (probably murdered) (b. 1367)
• April 21 – John Wittlebury, English politician (b. 1333)
• April 23 – Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford, third son of John de Vere (b. 1338)
• April 28 – Baldus de Ubaldis, Italian jurist (b. 1327)
• June 5 – Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, rival King of the Romans
• June 17 – Jan of Jenštejn, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1348)
• October 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (b. c. 1343)[3]
• November 8 – Peter of Aragon, Aragonese infante (b. 1398)
• November 20 – Elizabeth of Moravia, Margravine of Meissen (b. 1355)
• November – Tarabya of Ava (b. 1368)
• December – Archibald the Grim, Scottish magnate (b. 1328)
• date unknown – Narayana Pandit, Indian mathematician (b. 1340)

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 115–117. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Childress 2008, p. 14 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFChildress2008 (help)
3. "Geoffrey Chaucer | Biography, Poems, Canterbury Tales, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 12, 2021.