1406

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409

1406 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1406 MCDVI
Ab urbe condita	2159
Armenian calendar	855 ԹՎ ՊԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6156
Balinese saka calendar	1327–1328
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 (Wood Rooster) 4103 or 3896     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4104 or 3897
Coptic calendar	1122–1123
Discordian calendar	2572
Ethiopian calendar	1398–1399
Hebrew calendar	5166–5167
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1462–1463
- Shaka Samvat	1327–1328
- Kali Yuga	4506–4507
Holocene calendar	11406
Igbo calendar	406–407
Iranian calendar	784–785
Islamic calendar	808–809
Japanese calendar	Ōei 13 (応永１３年)
Javanese calendar	1320–1321
Julian calendar	1406 MCDVI
Korean calendar	3739
Minguo calendar	506 before ROC 民前506年
Nanakshahi calendar	−62
Thai solar calendar	1948–1949
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1532 or 1151 or 379     — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1533 or 1152 or 380

Year 1406 (MCDVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 22 – On "Monday before the Annunciation", Palm Sunday, Prince James, the 10-year-old son of King Robert III of Scotland, is captured while being taken across the English Channel from Scotland to France when the ship he is on, Maryenknyght, by privateers Hugh atte Fen, William Oxeney, John Hacon and Nicholas Steyward of Cley. The crown prince is delivered to London where he is held hostage by King Henry IV of England for the next 18 years.
• April 4 – James I becomes King of Scotland on the death of his father. He has been detained by Henry IV of England since March 30 and will remain at the English court for 18 years.
• October 7 – French troops comprising 1,000 men at arms land on the Channel Island of Jersey, and fight a battle against 3,000 defenders.
• 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.
• October 26 – Eric of Pomerania, ruler of the Kalmar Union, marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England, in Lund Cathedral.
• November 30 – Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII, as the 205th pope.
• December 25 – John II becomes King of Castile aged 21 months on the death of his father.

Date unknown

• Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing during the Chinese Ming dynasty.
• Pisa is subjugated by Florence.

Births

• January 28 – Guy XIV de Laval, French noble (d. 1486)
• July 11 – William, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg (1428-1441) (d. 1482)
• September 26 – Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
• date unknown
  • John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (d. 1464)
  • Margaret, Countess of Vertus, French countess (d. 1466)
  • Martin of Aragon, Aragon infante (d. 1407)
  • Ulrich II, Count of Celje (d. 1456)
• probable date
  • Iancu de Hunedoara – governor of Hungary (d. 1456)

Deaths

• January 6 – Roger Walden, English bishop
• March 17 – Ibn Khaldun, African Arab historian (b. 1332)
• April 4 – King Robert III of Scotland (b. 1337)
• May 4 – Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence (b. 1331)
• July 15 – William, Duke of Austria
• August 28 – John de Sutton V (b. 1380)
• September 16 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow
• November 1 – Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (b. 1322)
• November 6 – Pope Innocent VII (b. 1339)
• December 25 – King Henry III of Castile (b. 1379)
• probable date – Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde