1416

Year '1416' was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1416

Births

Deaths

Events of 1416

★ January 27 - Republic of Dubrovnik is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.

★ May 30 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.

★ Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge destroyed, the longest arch bridge in the world at the time

Births

★ March 27 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (died 1480)

★ October 26 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (died 1490)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (died 1470)

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★ Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (died 1507)

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★ Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (died 1469)

★ ''probable'' - Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (died 1472)

Deaths

★ February 27 - Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre

★ March 15 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (born 1340)

★ April 2 - King Ferdinand I of Aragon (born 1379)

★ May 21 - Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (born 1386)

★ May 30 - Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (born 1379)

★ December 3 - Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg