Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s  1380s  1390s  – 1400s –  1410s  1420s  1430s
Years:	1398 1399 1400 – 1401 – 1402 1403 1404

1401 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1401 (MCDI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1401

• Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.
• The De heretico comburendo Act is passed in England, as 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.
• Emperor 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 present-day Korea officially enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
• Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.

1401 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1401 MCDI
Ab urbe condita	2154
Armenian calendar	850 ԹՎ ՊԾ
Bahá'í calendar	-443 – -442
Bengali calendar	808
Berber calendar	2351
Buddhist calendar	1945
Burmese calendar	763
Byzantine calendar	6909 – 6910
Chinese calendar	庚辰年十二月十七日 (4037/4097-12-17) — to — 辛巳年十一月廿七日 (4038/4098-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1117 – 1118
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)
Korean calendar	3734
Thai solar calendar	1944
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[edit] Births

• May 12 – Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428)
• July 23 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1466)
• October 27 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry VI of England (d. 1437)
• November 26 – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (d. 1418)
• December 21 – Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
• Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1456)
• Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1436)
• probable
  • Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 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 (b. 1338)
• October 20 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
• date unknown
  • Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland