January–March •
January 10 – At
Anhilpur Patan in the modern-day state of Gujarat in India,
Ahmad Shah I becomes the new
Sultan of Gujarat upon the death of his grandfather,
Muzaffar Shah I. •
January 18 –
Jobst, King of the Romans and Elector of Brandenburg, a member of the
House of Luxembourg who had been elected to rule as the German monarch on October 1, dies suddenly at the age of 35 following a suspected poisoning. His death clears the way for Jobst's cousin and rival,
Sigismund of Hungary, to become the new
King of the Romans, and for control of the
Electorate of Brandenburg to pass from the House of Luxembourg to the House of Hohenzollern, with
Frederick of Hohenzollern becoming the new Elector in return for supporting the election of Sigismund. •
February 1 – The
First Peace of Thorn is signed at
Thorn (modern-day Torun in Poland) in the
Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights, ending the
Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War. The Knights cede the region of
Dobrzyń Land to the Kingdom of Poland. Thus, the Teutonic Order suffered virtually no territorial losses – a great diplomatic achievement after the crushing defeat in the
Battle of Grunwald the previous year. •
February 8 – In Spain, a parliament of representatives from Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia is opened at
Calatayud to elect a successor to King Martin of Aragon, who had died eight months earlier on May 31. Although
James II is nominated by the castellan of Aragon to be the new King, the parliament declines to support him or any other candidate. •
February 17 –
Ottoman Interregnum:
Süleyman Çelebi, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is strangled to death after being forced by his brother
Musa Çelebi, to flee the Ottoman capital,
Edirne. Rule of the Ottoman domains in Europe (
Rumelia) passes to Musa. •
February 26 (2
Dhu al-Qi'dah 813
A.H.) – At 1:20 in the afternoon,
Ahmad Shah I formally lays the foundation of the new city of
Ahmedabad at the site of Asawal, where he had defeated the warlord Asha Bhil,) at
Manek Burj. •
March 4 •
Friso-Hollandic Wars:
Friesland soldiers capture the
Netherlands city of
Staveren, the last Netherlands stronghold in Friesland, after a bitter winter prevents ships from both sides from crossing the
Zuiderzee and freezes the
moat around the city walls. • Gujarat Sultan Ahmen Shah I declares the new city of
Ahmedabad to be the new Gujarat capital.
April–June •
April 1 –
Carlo I Tocco arrives at
Ioannina in Greece to become the new ruler of the former Byzantine state, the
Despotate of Epirus. •
April 13 –
Sandalj Hranić,
Duke of Bosnia, sells the Croatian coastal town of
Ostrovica to the
Republic of Venice, giving the Venetians further control of the Dalmatian Coast and both sides of the
Adriatic Sea. •
May 19 – At the order of
Louis II of Anjou, General
Muzio Attendolo, leader of the Neapolitan Army, defeats the army of King
Ladislaus of Naples in a battle at the
Battle of Roccasecca in the Lazio region of Italy. •
June 3 – In
Vienna,
Friedrich IV, nicknamed "Friedrich of the Empty Pockets", becomes the new
Duke of Further Austria upon the death of his older brother,
Leopold the Fat. •
June 4 – The French city of
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon is given exclusive rights by
King Charles VI to the ripening and marketing of
Roquefort cheese.
July–September •
July 6 –
Ming dynasty Chinese Admiral
Zheng He returns to
Nanjing after his
second voyage, and presents the
Sinhalese king, captured during the
Ming–Kotte War, to China's
Emperor Cheng Zu. •
July 21 – Sigismund is formally
elected unanimously as King of the Romans by the seven electors of the
Holy Roman Empire present. •
July 24 –
Battle of Harlaw in
Scotland:
Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and an army commanded by
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, battle to a bloody draw. •
August 4 –
Parameswara of Malacca (also identified as Bai-li-mi-su-la or Iskandar Shah),
Sultan of Malacca in modern-day Malaysia, is hosted by the Ming court in China for the first of three banquets to honor his visit. •
September 3 – The
Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the
Ottoman Empire and the
Republic of Venice. •
September 21 – King
Henry IV of England calls his ninth parliament.
October–December •
October 3 – At the Abbey of St Vaast in
Arras in France,
John the Fearless,
Duke of Burgundy hosts English Bishop
Henry Chichele and several envoys who are ready to negotiate terms for English support of Burgundy in the ongoing French civil war with the Armagnacs. The negotiations fail to attract much support other than to hire some of the English soldiers as mercentaries. •
October 22 – The Duke of Burgundy and his troops capture Paris with the help of English mercenaries. •
November 3 – The
English Parliament is assembled after being summoned by King Henry IV, and again elects
Thomas Chaucer as Speaker of the House of Commons. •
November 24 – The Swiss canton of
Appenzell enters into an alliance with most of the cantons of the
Swiss Confederacy. •
November 30 –
Henry IV dismisses Prince
Henry and his supporters from the government. The next day, the leader of the Armagnacs, the Duke of Orleans, finds that the gates to the walled city of Paris have been locked and are closely guarded. •
December 19 –
Royal assent is given by King Henry IV to many of the acts passed by the English Parliament, including the
Riot Act 1411, which provides that "The justices of peace and the sheriffs shall arrest those which commit any riot... and inquire of them, and record their offences. •
December 21 – King Henry IV of England issues pardons to all but two of the Welsh rebels in the
Glyndŵr rebellion except for the leaders,
Owain Glyndŵr and Thomas of Trumpington
Date unknown • Under the reign of
Emperor Cheng Zu of
Ming China, work begins to reinstate the ancient
Grand Canal of China, which fell into disuse and dilapidation during the previous
Yuan dynasty. Between 1411 and
1415, a total of 165,000 laborers dredge the canal bed in
Shandong, build new channels, embankments, and
canal locks. Four large
reservoirs in Shandong are also dug, in order to regulate water levels, instead of resorting to pumping water from local tables. A large
dam is also constructed, to divert water from the Wen River southwest into the Grand Canal. •
Constantinople is briefly
besieged by the Ottoman pretender
Musa Çelebi, due to Byzantine support for
Süleyman Çelebi during the
Ottoman Interregnum. • (possibly early 1412) The
Battle of İnceğiz between the rival brothers
Mehmed Çelebi and
Musa Çelebi, during the
Ottoman Interregnum. == Births ==