1416
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| 1416 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1416 MCDXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2169 |
| Armenian calendar | 865 ԹՎ ՊԿԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6166 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1337–1338 |
| Bengali calendar | 823 |
| Berber calendar | 2366 |
| English Regnal year | 3 Hen. 5 – 4 Hen. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1960 |
| Burmese calendar | 778 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6924–6925 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4113 or 3906 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4114 or 3907 |
| Coptic calendar | 1132–1133 |
| Discordian calendar | 2582 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1408–1409 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5176–5177 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1472–1473 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1337–1338 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4516–4517 |
| Holocene calendar | 11416 |
| Igbo calendar | 416–417 |
| Iranian calendar | 794–795 |
| Islamic calendar | 818–819 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 23 (応永２３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1330–1331 |
| Julian calendar | 1416 MCDXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3749 |
| Minguo calendar | 496 before ROC 民前496年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −52 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1958–1959 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1542 or 1161 or 389 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1543 or 1162 or 390 |
Year 1416 (MCDXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- January 27 – The Republic of Ragusa is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.
- May 29 – Battle of Gallipoli: Venetian admiral Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.
- May 30 – The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.
Date unknown
- The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge (the longest arch bridge in the world at the time) is destroyed.
- The Hussite Bible is completed by Tamás Pécsi and Bálint Újlaki.
Births
- February 26 – Christopher of Bavaria (d. 1448)
- March 27 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
- March 28 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489)
- May 25 – Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace (d. 1480)
- October 26 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490)
- date unknown
- Benedetto Cotrugli, Ragusan/Croatian merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist (d. 1469)
- Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (d. 1470)
- Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
- Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1469)
- probable – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess and countess (d. 1472)
Deaths
- February 2 – Racek Kobyla of Dvorce, Bohemian Hetman and Burgrave.
- February 27 – Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363)
- April 2 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (b. 1379)[1]
- May 21 – Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (b. c. 1381)
- May 30 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)
- June 15 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
- September 4 – John I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count[2]
- October 1 – Yaqub Spata, lord of Arta
- October 14 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- December 29 – Mathew Swetenham, bowbearer of Henry IV
- date unknown – The Limbourg brothers, painters of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
- probable
- Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh prince and leader of the Welsh Revolt
- Julian of Norwich, English anchoress, mystic and author
References
- ^ "Ferdinand I | king of Aragon". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
- ^ Dek, A.W.E. (1970). Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau (in Dutch). Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek. p. 66.