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1406


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

Contents
Events of 1406
Births
Deaths

Events of 1406



★ Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing during the Chinese Ming Dynasty.

Richard Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London.

December 25 - John II becomes King of Castile.

Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England.

James I becomes King of Scotland, after having been captured by Henry IV of England.

Richard, Earl of Cambridge, marries Anne Mortimer.

November 30 - Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII as the 205th pope.

Pisa is subjugated by Florence.

Births



September 26 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)

★ ''date unknown'' - Ulrich II of Celje (died 1456)

Deaths



January 6 - Roger Walden, English bishop

March 19 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (born 1332)

April 4 - King Robert III of Scotland

May 4 - Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence (born 1331)

July 15 - Duke William of Austria

September 16 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow

November 6 - Pope Innocent VII

★ ''date unknown''


★ King Henry III of Castile (born 1379)


Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (born 1322)


John de Sutton V (born 1380)

★ ''probable'' - Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde

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