1406
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This article is about the year 1406.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1370s 1380s 1390s – 1400s – 1410s 1420s 1430s |
| Years: | 1403 1404 1405 – 1406 – 1407 1408 1409 |
| 1406 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 |
| 1406 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1406 MCDVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2159 |
| Armenian calendar | 855 ԹՎ ՊԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6156 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -438–-437 |
| Bengali calendar | 813 |
| Berber calendar | 2356 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Hen. 4 – 8 Hen. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1950 |
| Burmese calendar | 768 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6914–6915 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年十二月十一日 (4042/4102-12-11) — to —
丙戌年十一月廿一日(4043/4103-11-21) |
| Coptic calendar | 1122–1123 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1398–1399 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5166–5167 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1462–1463 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1328–1329 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4507–4508 |
| Holocene calendar | 11406 |
| Iranian calendar | 784–785 |
| Islamic calendar | 808–809 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 13 (応永13年) |
| Korean calendar | 3739 |
| Minguo calendar | 506 before ROC 民前506年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1949 |
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Year 1406 (MCDVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- October 13 – Richard Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London for a second full term. He holds this office simultaneously with that of Mayor of the Calais Staple.
- November 30 – Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII as the 205th pope.
- December 25 – John II becomes King of Castile.
[edit] Date unknown
- Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing during the Chinese Ming Dynasty.
- Pisa is subjugated by Florence.
- Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England.
- James I becomes King of Scotland, after having been captured by Henry IV of England.
- Richard, Earl of Cambridge, marries Anne Mortimer.
[edit] Births
- September 26 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
- date unknown
- Ulrich II of Celje (d. 1456)
- Lorenzo Valla, humanist
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 – Roger Walden, English bishop
- March 19 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
- April 4 – King Robert III of Scotland
- May 4 – Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence (b. 1331)
- July 15 – Duke William of Austria
- September 16 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow
- November 6 – Pope Innocent VII
- date unknown
- King Henry III of Castile (b. 1379)
- Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (b. 1322)
- John de Sutton V (b. 1380)
- probable – Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde
