Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1390s  1400s  1410s  – 1420s –  1430s  1440s  1450s
Years:	1418 1419 1420 – 1421 – 1422 1423 1424

1421 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

For the controversial book by Gavin Menzies, see: 1421: The Year China Discovered the World.

Year 1421 (MCDXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1421 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events of 1421

• March 21 – Battle of Baugé: A small French force surprises and defeats a smaller English force under Thomas, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Henry V of England, in Normandy.
• May 26 – Mehmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son Murad II.
• November 17 – 19 – St. Elizabeth flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10,000 people.
• John III of Dampierre, Marquis of Namur, sells his estates to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
• The first patent is issued by the Republic of Florence.^[1]
• According to Gavin Menzies, the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty The year for a theory which says that Ancient China had mapped and discovered the world. See also: 1421: The Year China Discovered The World.

1421 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1421 MCDXXI
Ab urbe condita	2174
Armenian calendar	870 ԹՎ ՊՀ
Bahá'í calendar	-423 – -422
Bengali calendar	828
Berber calendar	2371
Buddhist calendar	1965
Burmese calendar	783
Byzantine calendar	6929 – 6930
Chinese calendar	庚子年十一月廿八日 (4057/4117-11-28) — to — 辛丑年十二月初七日 (4058/4118-12-7)
Coptic calendar	1137 – 1138
Ethiopian calendar	1413 – 1414
Hebrew calendar	5181 – 5182
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1476 – 1477
- Shaka Samvat	1343 – 1344
- Kali Yuga	4522 – 4523
Holocene calendar	11421
Iranian calendar	799 – 800
Islamic calendar	823 – 824
Japanese calendar	Ōei 28 (応永28年)
Korean calendar	3754
Thai solar calendar	1964
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[edit] Births

• July 25 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (died 1461)
• December 6 – King Henry VI of England (died 1471)
• date unknown
  • Sōgi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (died 1502)
  • Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France
  • Ponhea Yat, ruler of the Khmer Empire (died 1467)
• February 10 - Gabriel Schlesinger, Irish writer and poet (died 1439)

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 – Niccolò I Trinci, lord of Foligno (assassinated)
• March 22 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (born 1388)
• May – Balša III, ruler of Zeta
• May 26 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
• date unknown – John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (born 1385)

[edit] References