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Gregorian calendar | 1408 MCDVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2161 |
Armenian calendar | 857 ԹՎ ՊԾԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6158 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1329–1330 |
Bengali calendar | 815 |
Berber calendar | 2358 |
English Regnal year | 9 Hen. 4 – 10 Hen. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 1952 |
Burmese calendar | 770 |
Byzantine calendar | 6916–6917 |
Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4105 or 3898 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4106 or 3899 |
Coptic calendar | 1124–1125 |
Discordian calendar | 2574 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1400–1401 |
Hebrew calendar | 5168–5169 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1464–1465 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1329–1330 |
- Kali Yuga | 4508–4509 |
Holocene calendar | 11408 |
Igbo calendar | 408–409 |
Iranian calendar | 786–787 |
Islamic calendar | 810–811 |
Japanese calendar | Ōei 15 (応永15年) |
Javanese calendar | 1322–1323 |
Julian calendar | 1408 MCDVIII |
Korean calendar | 3741 |
Minguo calendar | 504 before ROC 民前504年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −60 |
Thai solar calendar | 1950–1951 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1534 or 1153 or 381 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1535 or 1154 or 382 |
Year 1408 (MCDVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: A royalist army defeats the last remnants of the Percy Rebellion.
- September – Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.
- September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland.
- December 5 – Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
- December 13 – The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.
Date unknown
- The Moldavian town of Iaşi is first mentioned.
- The Yongle Encyclopedia is completed.[1]
- Gotland passes under Danish rule.
- Zheng He delivers 300 virgins from Korea to the Chinese emperor.
- Mihail I becomes co-ruler of Wallachia, with his father Mircea cel Bătrân.
Births
- January 25 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
- February 14 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
- March 25 – Agnes of Baden, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg, German noble (d. 1473)
- April 8 – Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (d. 1431)
- April 23 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1462)
- May 22 – Annamacharya, Indian mystic saint composer (d. 1503)
- October 1 or 1409 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden (d. 1470)
- date unknown – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
Deaths
- February 19 – Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel (in battle)
- February 20 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English rebel (in battle) (b. 1342)
- April – Miran Shah, son of Timur the Lame (b. 1366)
- April 10 or April 11 – Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
- May 24 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
- May 31 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1358)
- September 15 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (b. 1384)
- September 22 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)
- December 4 – Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans by marriage to Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
- date unknown – Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria[2]
References
- ^ "Yongle dadian | Chinese encyclopaedia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
- ^ Gabra, Gawdat; Takla, Hany N. (2017). Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta. Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9789774167775.