What is 1401?
{{Year nav|1401}} {{Year in various calendars|1401}} {{Year article header|1401}} == Events of 1401 == * [[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 language|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 the present-day [[Korea]] officially enters into a [[Tribute|tributary]] relationship with [[Ming Dynasty]] China. *[[Japan]] re-enters into a [[Tribute|tributary]] relationship with [[Ming Dynasty]] China. {{Year in other calendars}} == 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]]) == 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 [[Category:1401| ]]