1404

Year '1404' was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1404

Births

Deaths

Events of 1404

★ June 14 - Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English. He later begins holding parliamentary assemblies.

★ October 17 - Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX as the 204th pope.

★ Stefan Tvrtko II succeeds Stefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia.

★ Peace is declared between Lithuania and Teutonic Knights after agreeing to exchange land and form an alliance against Muscovy.

★ The University of Turin is founded.

★ Timur is hit by a fever while preparing to invade China.

★ Centurione II Zaccaria succeeds Maria II Zaccaria as ruler of the Principality of Achaea.

★ Virupaksha Raya succeds Harihara Raya II as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-day southern India.

★ Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat as King of Cambodia.

★ Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Og MacDermot as Kings of Moylurg in present-day north-east Connacht, Ireland.

★ The St. Elizabeth's flood devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.

★ The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.

Births

★ February 9 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (died 1453)

★ February 14 - Leone Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (died 1472)

★ March 25 (baptism) - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)

★ June - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1451)

★ July 25 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France (died 1463)

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★ Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat (died 1440)

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★ Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (died 1473)

Deaths

★ April 27 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (born 1342)

★ September 14 - Duke Albert IV of Austria (born 1377)

★ September 27 - William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (born 1320)

★ October 1 - Pope Boniface IX (born 1356)

★ October 15 - Marie Valois, French princess (born 1344)

★ December 13 - Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)

★ ''date unknown'' - Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (born 1350)