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August 18: The Siege of Caen begins in France as England invades Normandy.

Template:C15 year in topicYear 1417 (MCDXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

EventsEdit

January–MarchEdit

  • January 19 – After the dismissal of Al-Musta'in as Caliph of Cairo by the Sultan Shaykh al-Mahmudi is declared unlawful by Islamic clerics, Shaykh arranges Al-Musta'in and three sons of the late Sultan Faraj to be transferred away from Cairo to Alexandria.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
  • January 19Joanna II, Queen of Naples, issues a pardon for Giacomo Orsini, who had rebelled against her predecessor, King Ladislaus of Naples.
  • February 15 – In Korea, Grand Prince Yangnyeong of the Joseon Kingdom and heir to the throne, causes a scandal that ends any possibility of becoming the next King. Yangnyeong courts the wife of another official and attempts to bring here into the royal palace in Seoul, ending in his banishment from the royal household and being replaced on June 3, 1418.<ref>Lee Bae-yong (2008). Women in Korean History. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press. Template:ISBN</ref>
  • February 24 – An envoy of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, identified in Italian records as "Chamitzi", arrives in the Republic of Venice to demand the release of Ottoman soldiers who had been taken as prisoners of war during the conflict between Venice and the Ottomans. The release of each nation's prisoners of war is unresolved and hinders peace negotiations.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
  • March 5Alexios IV becomes the new Emperor of Trebizond (located in what is now Turkey along the Black Sea) upon the death of his father, Manuel III.<ref>George Finlay, The History of Greece and the Empire of Trebizond, (1204–1461) (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1851), p. 393</ref>
  • March 10 – In Bohemia, Johannes Cardinalis von Bergreichenstein, rector of the University of Prague issues a proclamation declaring that the theological teachings of the late Jan Hus are doctrine confirmed for all Christians, leading to eventual condemnation by the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope for heresy.<ref>František Michálek Bartoš,Das Reformprogramm des Mag. Johannes Cardinalis von Bergreichenstein, des Gesandten der Karls-Universität in Prag, für das Konzil zu Konstanz (Göttingen: Hermann Heimpel II, 1972)</ref>

April–JuneEdit

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  • June 29 – An English fleet, led by the Earl of Huntingdon, defeats a fleet of Genoese carracks and captures their admiral, the "Bastard of Bourbon".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • June 30 – In France, the Baron of Trévoux reverses a ban against the town's Jewish population, and allows them to study the Talmud without interference.<ref>Léon Berman, Histoire des Juifs de France des origines à nos jours (Paris: Librairie Lipschutz, 1937)</ref>

July–SeptemberEdit

October–DecemberEdit

  • October 5 – King Henry V of England summons the English Parliament to assemble on November 16.
  • October 31 – On Hallowtide, by order of the Lord May Henry Barton, street lighting is first used in London, with lanterns to be hung out on winter evenings, lasting until the night of Candlemas on February 2.<ref>Roskell, J. S. and Clark, L. and Rawcliffe, C. (editors) BARTON, Henry (d.1435), of London. – History of Parliament Online Template:Webarchive, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421. Template:ISBN. 1993.</ref>
  • November 9 – In what is now the Mediterranean coast of Spain, six-year-old Muhammad VIII becomes the new Sultan of the Emirate of Granada upn the death of his father, the Sultan Yusuf III.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • November 11 – On St. Martin's Day, with all three previous claimants to the office of Pope gone, the 53-member Council of Constance unanimously elects Oddone Colonna to be the new Pontiff.<ref name=Ott>Ott, Michael. "Pope Martin V", in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IX New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910</ref> Colonna will take the name of Saint Martin of Tours upon his consecration.
  • November 16 – The English Parliament opens at Westminster for a 31-day session and re-elects Roger Flower as Speaker of the House of Commons.
  • November 19 – The coronation of Elizabeth Granowska as Queen consort of Poland takes place after King Wladyslaw receives a special dispensation from the Council of Constance.<ref name=Duczmal/>
  • November 21 – The coronation of Oddone Colonna as Pope Martin V takes place in Constance as he becomes the 206th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.<ref name=Ott/> His installation ends a period of two years and five months without a Pope at Rome, as he succeeds Pope Gregory XII, who had abdicated on July 4, 1415.
  • December 14 – In punishment for his conviction for high treason against the Crown of England, Sir John Oldcastle, Baron Cobham, is hanged outside the church of St Giles in the Fields and then (carrying out the sentence for a prior conviction of heresy) burned, "gallows and all".<ref>{{#if: |
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  • December 17 – The English Parliament closes and King Henry V gives royal assent to its one major law, the Attorney Act 1417, which provides that "All persons until the next parliament may make their attornies in wapentakes, hundreds, and court barons."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • December 20Richard Talbot is appointed as the new Archbishop of Dublin, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, eight months after the death of the Archbishop Thomas Cranley.

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  • Imadaddin Nasimi, an Azerbaijani poet and the foremost proponent of Hurufism, was flayed alive and executed in Aleppo, Syria under the order of Aleppan ulema.

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