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Year '1401' was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1401

Births

Deaths

Events of 1401

★ Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.

★ Passing of the De heretico comburendo Act in England - the Archbishop of Canterbury pressures King Henry IV of England into outlawing as heretics anyone owning an English translation of the Bible.

★ Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northern India.

★ Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania is granted increased autonomy by King Jogaila of the Poland-Lithuania union.

★ Emperor Ho Quy Ly of Dai Ngu (now Vietnam) passes the throne to his son, Thai Thuong Hoang.

★ A civil war, lasting four years, breaks out in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.

★ The Joseon Dynasty in the present-day Korea officially enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.

★ Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.

Births

★ May 12 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (died 1428)

★ July 23 - Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1466)

★ October 27 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry VI of England (died 1437)

★ November 26 - Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (died 1418)

★ December 21 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (died 1428)

★ Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (died 1456)

★ Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (died 1436)

★ ''probable''

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★ Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (died 1464)

Deaths

★ March - William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)

★ April 8 (or August 8) Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (born 1338)

★ October 20 - Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland