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

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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''

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★ King Henry III of Castile (born 1379)

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★ Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (born 1322)

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★ John de Sutton V (born 1380)

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