1401
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| Years: 1398 1399 1400 - 1401 - 1402 1403 1404 |
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| Decades: 1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430s |
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| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
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| 1401 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Gregorian calendar | 1401 MCDI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2154 |
| Armenian calendar | 850 ԹՎ ՊԾ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -443 – -442 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1945 |
| Chinese calendar | 4037/4097-12-17 (庚辰年十二月十七日) — to —
4038/4098-11-27(辛巳年十一月廿七日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1393 – 1394 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5161 – 5162 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1456 – 1457 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1323 – 1324 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4502 – 4503 |
| Holocene calendar | 11401 |
| Iranian calendar | 779 – 780 |
| Islamic calendar | 803 – 804 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 8 (応永8年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2061 (皇紀2061年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11401 |
| Julian calendar | 1446 |
| Korean calendar | 3734 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1944 |
[edit] Events
- Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid empire.
- Passing of the De heretico comburendo Act in England - the Archbishop of Canterbury pressures King Henry IV of England into outlawing as heretics anyone owning an English translation of the Bible.
- Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northern India.
- Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania is granted increased autonomy by King Jogaila of the Poland-Lithuania union.
- Emporer Ho Quy Ly of Dai Ngu (now Vietnam) passes the throne to his son, Thai Thuong Hoang.
- A civil war, lasting four years, breaks out in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.
- The Joseon Dynasty in the present-day Korea officially enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
- Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
[edit] Births
- May 12 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (died 1428)
- July 23 - Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1466)
- October 27 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry VI of England (died 1437)
- November 26 - Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (died 1418)
- December 21 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (died 1428)
- Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (died 1456)
- Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (died 1436)
- probable
- Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (died 1464)
[edit] Deaths
- March - William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)
- April 8 (or August 8) Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (born 1338)
- October 20 - Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
- date unknown
- Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland
