January–March •
January 14 – The
fourth Parliament of King
Henry IV of England opens for a session of two months. •
February 10 –
Thomas of Lancaster, the second son of King Henry IV of England, becomes
Admiral of the North and South succeeding Admiral Thomas Beaufort. •
February 27 –
King Guadarfia of the
Canary Islands surrenders to the French explorer
Jean de Béthencourt, who declares himself to be the new king, but subservient to the sponsor of the expedition,
King Enrique III of
Castile (part of modern-day Spain) •
March 1 – Under the
Emperor Cheng Zu, China continues to build its fleet, ordering the construction of 50 new seagoing ships from the Capital Guards in Nanjing. •
March 20 – As the English Parliament adjourns, King Henry IV gives
royal assent to acts that have passed, including the
Multipliers Act, which declares "It shall be felony to use the craft of multiplication of gold or silver.", prohibiting any
alchemists who has actually may have discovered how to perform transmutation of other substances into precious metals. The law remains in force until repealed 284 years later.
April–June •
April 12 –
Centurione II Zaccaria buys the
Principality of Achaea, located on the
Peloponnese peninsula in modern-day
Greece, from
King Ladislaus of
Naples. •
April 25 – The
War of Padua begins in the
Veneto region of northeastern Italy as the army of the
Republic of Venice, led by General
Malatesta dei Sonetti, leads an attack on
Padua, led by the Lord
Francesco Novello da Carrara. The city of
Vicenza surrenders to the Venetian troops on the same day, while the war against Padua last 19 months. •
April 27 – At
Dijon, in France's
Burgundian State,
John the Fearless (
Jean sans Peur), nephew of
Charles VI of France, becomes the new
Duke of Burgundy upon the death of his father,
Philip the Bold. •
April or
May –
Battle of Blackpool Sands: Local English forces defeat an attempted raid from
Saint-Malo on the port of
Dartmouth, Devon; the French commander, William du Chastel, is killed. •
May 22 – The
Peace of Raciążek treaty is signed by the representatives of King
Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland, by the Grand Duke
Vytautas of Lithuania, and by the
Teutonic Knights. •
June 14 – Welsh rebel leader
Owain Glyndŵr enters an alliance with the
French against the
English. He has begun to hold
parliamentary assemblies (first on May 10 at
Dolgellau). •
June 21 – The formal coronation of Owain Glyndŵr as
Prince of Wales takes place at
Harlech.
July–September •
July 27 – In Southern India,
Bukka Raya II becomes the new ruler of the
Vijayanagara Empire in what are the modern-day Indian states of
Karnataka,
Andhra Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu and
Kerala. •
September 14 –
Albert IV, Duke of Austria, dies at the age of 26 from an illness contracted while he was fighting against Bohemia and Moravia for control of the city of
Znaim (modern Znojmo in the Czech Republic). He is succeeded as Duke by his 6-year old son,
Albert.
October–December •
October 16 – The 5th Parliament of King Henry IV of England (summoned August 25), nicknamed "The
Unlearned Parliament" because Henry refuses to allow lawyers to sit, opens for a four week session in
Coventry, closing on November 13. •
October 17 – Cosimo de' Migliorati, Cardinal of the Basilica Cross in Jerusalem, is elected unanimously by eight cardinals to succeed the late
Pope Boniface IX. Migliorati takes the papal name
Innocent VII as the 204th
pope of the Roman Catholic Church. •
November 19 – The
St. Elizabeth's flood of the
North Sea devastates parts of
Flanders,
Zeeland and
Holland. •
December 16 –
Willem VI becomes the new
Count of Holland upon the death of his father,
Albrecht I, Duke of
Lower Bavaria.
Date unknown •
Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the
Kingdom of the Canary Islands. • Stephan
Tvrtko II succeeds
Stefan Ostoja as King of
Bosnia. • Peace is declared between
Lithuania and the
Teutonic Knights, after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance against
Muscovy. •
A civil war, lasting two years, breaks out in the
Majapahit Empire in modern-day
Indonesia. •
Wallachia reaches its maximum extent under
Mircea cel Bătrân. • The
University of Turin is founded. •
Timur is hit by a fever, while preparing to invade
China. •
Virupaksha Raya succeeds
Harihara Raya II, as ruler of the
Vijayanagara Empire in modern-day southern
India. • Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat as King of
Cambodia. • Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Óg MacDermot as
King of Magh Luirg, in what later becomes northeast
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