1404
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This article is about the year 1404. For the computer game, see Anno 1404.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1370s 1380s 1390s – 1400s – 1410s 1420s 1430s |
| Years: | 1401 1402 1403 – 1404 – 1405 1406 1407 |
| 1404 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 |
| 1404 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1404 MCDIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2157 |
| Armenian calendar | 853 ԹՎ ՊԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6154 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -440–-439 |
| Bengali calendar | 811 |
| Berber calendar | 2354 |
| English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 4 – 6 Hen. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1948 |
| Burmese calendar | 766 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6912–6913 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年閏十一月十九日 (4040/4100-intercalary 11-19) — to —
甲申年十一月廿九日(4041/4101-11-29) |
| Coptic calendar | 1120–1121 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1396–1397 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5164–5165 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1460–1461 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1326–1327 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4505–4506 |
| Holocene calendar | 11404 |
| Iranian calendar | 782–783 |
| Islamic calendar | 806–807 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 11 (応永11年) |
| Korean calendar | 3737 |
| Minguo calendar | 508 before ROC 民前508年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1947 |
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Year 1404 (MCDIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English. He later begins holding parliamentary assemblies.
- October 17 – Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX as the 204th pope.
- November 19 – St. Elizabeth's flood devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.
[edit] Date unknown
- Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Canary Islands.
- Stephan Tvrtko II succeeds Stefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia.
- Peace is declared between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance against Muscovy.
- The University of Turin is founded.
- Timur is hit by a fever while preparing to invade China.
- Centurione II Zaccaria succeeds Maria II Zaccaria as ruler of the Principality of Achaea.
- Virupaksha Raya succeeds Harihara Raya II as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-day southern India.
- Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat as King of Cambodia.
- Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Og MacDermot as King of Moylurg in present-day north-east Connacht, Ireland.
- The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.
[edit] Births
- February 9 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
- February 18 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472))
- March 25 – (baptism) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
- June – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1451)
- July 25 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
- September 10 – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat (d. 1440)
- October 14 – Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France (d. 1463)
- date unknown – Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (d. 1473)
[edit] Deaths
- April 27 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
- September 14 – Duke Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
- September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (b. 1320)
- October 1 – Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
- October 15 – Marie Valois, French princess (b. 1344)
- December 13 – Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
- date unknown – Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (b. 1350)
