Editing 1403 (section)

== Events ==
<onlyinclude>

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 5]] &ndash; In what is now [[Myanmar]], peace negotiations begin between King [[Razadarit]] of [[Hanthawaddy Kingdom|Hanthawaddy]] at his capital [[Bago, Myanmar|Pegu]], with the emissaries of [[Minkhaung I]], ruler of the [[Kingdom of Ava]], 10 days after the Ava forces defeated Razadarit's army at the Battle of Nawin.<ref name=yt-1-220-221>Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 220–221</ref>
* [[January 23]] &ndash; The [[Yongle Emperor|Yongle Era]] in [[China]] begins with the first day of the Chinese New Year, six months after King [[Zhu Di]] of the Yan State arrived at [[Nanjing]], deposed the southern Chinese Emperor [[Jianwen Emperor|Jianwen]], and proclaimed himself as the Emperor [[Yongle]].
* [[February 20]] &ndash; Signing of the [[Treaty of Gallipoli]] is completed as [[Süleyman Çelebi]] makes wide-ranging concessions to the [[Byzantine Empire]] and other Christian powers, in the southern Balkans.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Dennis |first=George T. |title=The Byzantine–Turkish Treaty of 1403 |journal=Orientalia Christiana Periodica |year=1967 |volume=XXXIII |pages=75}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; King [[Henry IV of England]] marries as his second wife [[Joan of Navarre, Queen of England|Joan of Navarre]], the daughter of King [[Charles II of Navarre]] and widow of [[John IV, Duke of Brittany]], at [[Winchester Cathedral]].
* [[March 12]] &ndash; As King [[Martin I of Aragon]] helps to end the siege by the [[Kingdom of France|French]] of the papal palace in [[Avignon]], [[Antipope]] [[Avignon Pope Benedict XIII|Benedict XIII]] flees to [[Kingdom of Aragon|Aragon]].
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Sultan Mirza]], the favorite grandson and heir to the throne of the Emperor [[Tamerlane]], Emperor of [[Transoxiana]] (comprising modern Afghanistan and parts of Iran, Tadzikstan and Kazakhstan), dies from injuries sustained in the [[Battle of Ankara]].  
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Stříbrná Skalice]] in [[Central Bohemian Region|Central Bohemia]] is razed by [[Sigismund of Luxembourg]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Henry V of England|Prince Henry of England]], son of King Henry IV, is appointed by his father to serve for one year as  the Royal Lieutenant of Wales, with command over English toops to fight the Welsh rebels.<ref>Christopher Allmand, ''Henry V'' (Yale University Press, 2014) p.23</ref>
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Jean II Le Maingre]] of France, also known as Boucicaut, the French Governor of [[Genoa]], leads a fleet of 18 ships, 600 horses and 700 infantry to stop an attack by Muslims on the island of [[Cyprus]] and the city of [[Famagusta]]. Boucicaut besieges the Muslim city of Candelore on June 24.<ref>Craig Taylor, ''A Virtuous Knight: Defending Marshal Boucicaut (Jean II Le Meingre, 1366-1421)'' (York Medieval Press, 2019) p.32</ref>
* [[April]] &ndash; [[Balša III]] succeeds his father [[Đurađ II]] as ruler of the [[Principality of Zeta]] (now [[Montenegro]]).
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo]], an [[ambassador]] from the king of [[Crown of Castile|Castile]] to [[Timur]], leaves Cadiz; he arrives in [[Samarkand]] over a year later.
* [[June 9]] &ndash; The Byzantine Emperor [[Manuel II Palaiologos]] returns to Constantinople after an abence for more than two years in Western Europe.
* [[June 3]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Navarre|Eleanor of Castile]], wife of [[Charles III of Navarre|King Carlos III]] of [[Navarre]], as  Queen of Navarre takes place in [[Pamplona]], now in [[Spain]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Queens Regnant of Navarre |first=Elena |last=Woodacre |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2013 |page=81}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] &ndash; The Emperor Manuel II restores [[Matthew I of Constantinople|Matthew I]] as the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]], leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christians. Matthew had been deposed the previous autumn during the Emperor's absence from Byzantium.<ref name="ec">{{cite web |url=http://www.ec-patr.org/list/index.php?lang=gr&id=153 |title=Ματθαῖος Α´ |language=el |publisher=Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople |access-date=14 May 2015}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[John III of Soltaniyeh]], an Domincan friar of the Roman Catholic Church, arrives in Paris as an emissary of the conqueror [[Timur]], Emir of Transoxiana, in order to secure an agreement with King [[Charles VI of France]] in order to open trade relations between the two nations.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UP69Cm3kdCUC&pg=PA106|title=''Ibn Khaldun in Egypt'' Walter F. Fischel|page=106|access-date=2013-05-21|last1=Fischel|first1=Walter Joseph|year=1967|archive-date=2020-07-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721061626/https://books.google.com/books?id=UP69Cm3kdCUC&pg=PA106|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Battle of Shrewsbury]]:  King [[Henry IV of England]] defeats a rebel army led by [[Henry 'Hotspur' Percy|"Hotspur" Percy]], who had allied with the [[Wales|Welsh]] rebel [[Owain Glyndŵr]]. Percy is killed in the battle.
* [[August 5]] &ndash; The coronation of  [[Ladislaus of Naples]] as King of Hungary and Croatia takes place in [[Zadar|Zara]] (now [[Zadar]] in Croatia), where Ladislaus had arrived on July 19. His reign lasts less than four months before he is deposed.<ref>Miskolczy, István (1922). ''Nápolyi László, 1. közlemény'' Századok 56, Budapest. pp. 330-350.</ref>
* [[September 4]] &ndash; The first 200 [[Chinese treasure ship]]s are ordered by the new Ming dynasty Emperor from the Capital Guards at [[Nanjing]].<ref>{{citation |last=Dreyer |first=Edward L. |year=2007 |title=Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 |publisher=Pearson Longman |location=New York |page=105 |isbn=978-0-321-08443-9|oclc=64592164}}</ref> 

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Battle of Modon (1403)|Battle of Modon]]: The [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] fleet under [[Jean Le Maingre]] ([[Marshal of France|Marshal]] Boucicaut) is defeated by the [[Republic of Venice]], at [[Methoni, Messenia|Modon]] in the [[Peloponnese]].<ref name ="OxfordEnc">{{cite encyclopedia | title = Modon, Battle of | pages = 13–14 | encyclopedia = The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology | editor-first = Clifford J. | editor-last = Rogers | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-0-195334036}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; An English fleet organised by [[John Hawley (died 1408)|John Hawley]] of Dartmouth and Thomas Norton of Bristol seizes seven French merchant vessels in the [[English Channel]].<ref>C. L. Kingsford, ''Prejudice and Promise in Fifteenth Century England'' (Taylor & Francis, 2013) p.84</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Waleran III, Count of Ligny]], a relative in France of the late King [[Richard II of England]], informs [[Henry IV of England|King Henry IV]] (who killed King Richard) of plans to lead an attack on England.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Hundred Years War |volume=4: Cursed Kings |first=Jonathan |last=Sumption |publisher=Faber & Faber |page=120 |year=2015 }}</ref>
* [[November]] &ndash; An English revenge raid on [[Brittany]] by Sir William Wilford captures 40 ships and causes considerable damage ashore.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kingsford|first1=C. J.|title=Prejudice and Promise in Fifteenth Century England|year=1962|orig-year=1925|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0-7146-1488-5|chapter=IV. West Country Piracy: The School of English Seamen|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e48H6YG_2MkC&pg=PR7}}</ref> 
* [[December 12]] &ndash; Local English forces defeat an attempted French raid on the [[Isle of Wight]] under [[Waleran III, Count of Ligny]].<ref>"Seditious Activities", by James Ross, in ''Authority and Subversion'' ed. by Linda Clark (Boydell Press, 2003) p.38</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Defending the Island |last=Longmate |first=Norman |author-link=Norman Longmate |year=1990 |publisher=Grafton |location=London |isbn=0-586-20845-3}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Pope Boniface IX]] annuls and revokes numerous [[indulgence]]s previously paid to the Roman Catholic Church in return for a reduction of time in purgatory.<ref>"Pardons and Pilgrims", by Diana Webb, in ''Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe'', ed. by Robert Swanson (BRILL, 2018) p.263</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Jan Hus]] begins preaching [[John Wyclif|Wycliffite]] ideas in [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]].
* In [[China]], the [[Yongle Emperor]] of the [[Ming dynasty]]
** moves the capital from [[Nanjing]] to [[Beijing]].
** commissions the ''[[Yongle Encyclopedia]]'', one of the world's earliest and largest known general encyclopedias.
** orders his coastal provinces to build a vast fleet of ships, with construction centered at Longjiang near [[Nanjing]]; the inland provinces are to provide wood and float it down the [[Yangtze River]].
* [[The temple of a city God|The Temple of a City God]] is constructed in [[Shanghai]].
* The [[Gur-e Amir]] Mausoleum is built in [[Samarkand]] by [[Timur]], after the death of his grandson [[Muhammad Sultan Mirza|Muhammad Sultan]], and eventually becomes the family mausoleum of the [[Timurid dynasty]].
* [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgia]] makes peace with [[Timur]], but has to recognise him as a suzerain and pay him tribute.
* The world's first [[quarantine]] station, the [[Lazzaretto Vecchio]], is built in [[Republic of Venice|Venice]], to protect against the [[Black Death]].
* Grand Duke [[Vytautas]] ends his alliance with [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]], and captures [[Vyazma]] and [[Smolensk]].
* [[Stefan Lazarević]] establishes [[Belgrade]], as the capital of the [[Serbian Despotate]].
* A guild of stationers is founded in the [[City of London]]. As the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers]] (the "Stationers' Company"), it continues to be a [[livery company]] in the 21st century.
* In [[Lordship of Ireland|Ireland]]
** Tadhg Ruadh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh, as King of [[Hy-Many]], in present-day counties [[County Galway|Galway]] and [[County Roscommon|Roscommon]].
** Maolmhordha mac Con Connacht succeeds Giolla Iosa mac Pilib, as King of [[Kingdom of Breifne|East Breifne]], in present-day counties [[County Leitrim|Leitrim]] and [[County Cavan|Cavan]].
* ''probable'' &ndash; Ououso becomes King of [[Nanzan]], in present-day south [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], [[Japan]].
</onlyinclude>