What is 1417?
{{Year nav|1417}} {{Year in various calendars|1417}} {{Year article header|1417}} == Events of 1417 == *[[April 18]] – [[Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg]] begins to rule as [[margrave]] of [[Brandenburg]] *[[June 24]] – The [[Isle of Man]] holds the first known [[Tynwald Day]]; the annual meeting of its [[parliament]] [[Tynwald]] which has continued every year until present. *[[July 27]] – [[Avignon Pope Benedict XIII]] is deposed, bringing to an end the [[Great Western Schism]]. *[[November 11]] – [[Pope Martin V]] succeeds [[Pope Gregory XII]] as the 206th [[pope]]. * The use of street lighting is first recorded in [[London]], when Sir Henry Barton, the mayor, orders lanterns with lights to be hung out on the winter evenings between [[Halloween|Hallowtide]] and [[Candlemas]]. {{Year in other calendars}} == Births == *[[February 23]] – [[Pope Paul II]] (d. [[1471]]) *[[June 19]] – [[Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta]], lord of Rimini (died [[1468]]) *[[November 23]] – [[William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel]], English politician (died [[1487]]) *''date unknown'' **[[Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna]], regent of Sweden **[[Nicholas of Flüe]], Swiss hermit and saint (died [[1487]]) == Deaths == *January – [[Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh]], King of Leinster (born [[1357]]) *[[April 29]] – [[Louis II of Naples]] (born [[1377]]) *[[September 4]] – [[Robert Hallam]], English Catholic bishop *[[September 16]] – [[Francesco Zabarella]], Italian jurist (b. [[1360]]) *[[October 18]] – [[Pope Gregory XII]] *[[December 14]] – [[John Oldcastle]], English Lollard leader *''probable'' – [[Huitzilíhuitl]], Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan [[Category:1417| ]]