1412

	1412 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1380s 1390s 1400s – 1410s – 1420s 1430s 1440s
Years:	1409 1410 1411 – 1412 – 1413 1414 1415

Year 1412 (MCDXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1412

January 16 – The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy.
October 5 – Emperor Go-Komatsu abdicates and Emperor Shoko accedes to the throne of Japan.
John II of Castile declares the Valladolid laws that restrict the social rights of Jews. Among many other restrictions the laws force Jews to wear distinctive clothes and denies them administrative positions.
Years after its publication in the 14th century, the Ming Dynasty Chinese artillery officer Jiao Yu adds the preface to his classic book on gunpowder warfare, the Huolongjing.

January 6 – Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint. Tradition holds that she was born on the Feast of the Epiphany, but there is no documentary evidence (d. 1431)
June 6 – Ludovico II of Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (d. 1478)