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1416
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Template:C15 year in topicYear 1416 (MCDXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[edit source | edit]
January–December[edit source | edit]
- January 27 – The Republic of Ragusa is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.
- May 29 – Battle of Gallipoli: Venetian admiral Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.
- May 30 – The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.
Date unknown[edit source | edit]
- The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge (the longest arch bridge in the world at the time) is destroyed.
Births[edit source | edit]
- February 26 – Christopher of Bavaria (d. 1448)
- March 27 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
- March 28 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489)
- May 25 – Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace (d. 1480)
- October 26 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490)
- date unknown
- Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (d. 1470)
- Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
- Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1469)
- probable – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess and countess (d. 1472)
Deaths[edit source | edit]
- February 2 – Racek Kobyla of Dvorce, Bohemian Hetman and Burgrave.
- February 27 – Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363)
- April 2 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (b. 1379)[1]
- May 21 – Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (b. 1386)
- May 30 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)
- June 15 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
- October 1 – Yaqub Spata, lord of Arta
- October 14 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- December 29 – Mathew Swetenham, bowbearer of Henry IV
- date unknown – The Limbourg brothers, painters of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
- probable
- Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh prince and leader of the Welsh Revolt
- Julian of Norwich, English anchoress, mystic and author
References[edit source | edit]
- ↑ "Ferdinand I | king of Aragon". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 31, 2019. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
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