1401
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This article is about the year 1401. For the IBM computer system, see IBM 1401.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1370s 1380s 1390s – 1400s – 1410s 1420s 1430s |
| Years: | 1398 1399 1400 – 1401 – 1402 1403 1404 |
| 1401 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1401 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1401 MCDI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2154 |
| Armenian calendar | 850 ԹՎ ՊԾ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6151 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -443–-442 |
| Bengali calendar | 808 |
| Berber calendar | 2351 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Hen. 4 – 3 Hen. 4 |
| 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 | 1457–1458 |
| - 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 511 before ROC 民前511年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1944 |
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Year 1401 (MCDI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- 9 July - Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad.
[edit] Date unknown
- 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 the Lollards, followers of John Wycliffe. Evidence of being a Lollard is having a copy of Wycliffe's 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.
[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)
- date unknown
- 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)
- May 25 - Queen Maria of Sicily (b. 1363)
- August - King Tarabya of Ava (b. 1368)
- October 20 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
- October – Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland
