Editing 1408 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Western Schism]]: [[Charles VI of France|King Charles VI of France]] sends a letter to the [[Antipope]] [[Antipope Benedict XIII|Benedict XIII]] at [[Avignon]], giving an ultimatum to Benedict and the other [[Avignon Papacy]] proponents to end the schism in the Roman Catholic Church against the Roman Obedience, headed by [[Pope Gregory XII]]. King Charles VI threatens that unless the schism ends by [[Ascension Day]], 40 days after [[Easter]] (in 1408, April 24, with Ascension Day on June 3), [[France]] will end its support of the Avignon Obedience.<ref name=Creighton>{{cite book|last=Creighton|first=Mandell|title=A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8osAAAAYAAJ|volume=I: The Great Schism. The Council of Constance. 1378-1418|year=1882|publisher=Longmans, Green|location=London|pages=193–194}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Appenzell Wars]]: In the [[Appenzell]] region of [[Switzerland]], the alliance of the region with St. Gallen, the ''[[:de:Bund ob dem See|Bund ob dem See]]'' ("alliance over the lake", referring to the nearby [[Lake Constance]] fails in its attempt to liberate the city of [[Bregenz]] from Austrian rule.<ref name=HLS>{{HLS|8874|Appenzell Wars (1401-1429)}}</ref> The ''Bund'' is dissolved less than three months later.
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Battle of Bramham Moor]]: A royalist army defeats the last remnants of the [[Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland#Rebellion|Percy Rebellion]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=David|title=Battlefield Walks in Yorkshire|year=2002|publisher=Sigma|location=Wilmslow|page=37|isbn= 9781850587750}}</ref>
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[John I, Duke of Bourbon|John of Bourbon]], son of [[Louis II, Duke of Bourbon]], is appointed as the [[Grand Chamberlain of France]] by King Charles VI.
* [[March]] &ndash; (late in the month of [[Tagu]], which ended March 28, [[Burmese calendar|769 ME]]) [[Ava–Hanthawaddy War (1408–1410) orders of battle|Ava–Hanthawaddy War]]: In Burma (now [[Myanmar]]), [[Razadarit|King Razdarit]] leads the invasion of the [[List of Arakanese monarchs#North Arakan|Kingdom of North Arakan]] and overthrows its ruler, [[Anawrahta of Launggyet]], then has him executed.<ref>''Yazawin Thit'', Vol. 1, 2012, p.228)</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Appenzell Wars]]: In the [[Appenzell]] region of [[Switzerland]], the alliance of the region with St. Gallen, the  ("alliance over the lake", referring to the nearby [[Lake Constance]] fails in its attempt to liberate the city of [[Bregenz]] from Austrian rule.<ref name=HLS/> From the [[Holy Roman Empire]], [[Rupert of Germany|King Rupert of Germany]] orders the dissolution of the ''Bund ob dem See''.<ref name="HLS"/>
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Western Schism]]: In response to the January 12 ultimatum by France, the antipope Benedict publishes a [[papal bull|bull]] directing the [[excommunication]] of anyone, including King Charles VI, who attempted to withdraw obedience to the Avignon Papacy. The bull, "a major tactical mistake" by Benedict, gives the leaders of the [[University of Paris]] a pretext to declare those who had carried the bull to be guilty of high treason, and to accuse Benedict to be guilty of an attack on the royal dignity and national honor. King Charles then withdraws further support of Pope Benedict and proclaims the neutrality of France in the schism between Avignon and Rome.<ref name=Creighton/>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; A representative of Burma's Kingdom of Ava apologizes to the Ming dynasty Emperor of China for the kingdom's occupation of China's vassals, the [[Shan States]], particularly the [[Mongyang State]], whose monarch was killed in 1406.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Fernquest |first=Jon |title=Crucible of War: Burma and the Ming in the Tai Frontier Zone (1382–1454) |journal=SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research |volume=4 |number=2 |date=Autumn 2006 |pages=51–52 |url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/sbbr/editions/file64417.pdf}}</ref>  
* [[June 15]] &ndash; After receiving the news that France will no longer support his Avignon Obedience, the Antipope Benedict XIII issues the Bull ''Celestis altitudo'', summoning the a council [[Council of Perpignan|to meet on November 1]] at the French city of [[Perpignan]], and then flees from the French-controlled Italian region of [[Genoa]] to avoid arrest.<ref>{{cite book|editor=J. D. Mansi|title=Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zuJVAAAAcAAJ|edition=novissima|volume=Tomus XXVI (26)|year=1784|publisher=Antonius Zatta|location=Venice|language=Latin|pages=1103–1109}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;December ===
* [[July 2]] &ndash; From [[Livorno]], a group of 13 Roman Catholic [[College of Cardinals|Cardinals]] allied with Pope Gregory begins sending encyclical letters "to the princes and prelates of the Christian world" summoning them to the [[Council of Pisa]], to take place on [[March 25]], [[1409]], in order to end the [[Western Schism]].<ref>[http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/1408_Cardinals_Livorno.html Agreement of the Cardinals at Livorno], retrieved: 2017-09-12.</ref>
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Abdul Majid Hassan]], the [[List of sultans of Brunei|Sultan of Brunei]], sets off on a voyage to [[Ming dynasty|China]] at the invitation of the [[Yongle Emperor]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brunei's Sultan Abdul Majid and Chinese Emperor Yongle |url=http://bruneiresources.blogspot.com/2016/08/bruneis-sultan-abdul-majid-and-chinese.html |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=Brunei's Sultan Abdul Majid and Chinese Emperor Yongle}}</ref> and arrives in the capital, [[Nanjing]], by September, becoming the first foreign monarch to make a peaceful visit the Chinese Empire. While visiting, the Sultan becomes ill and dies on October 19.
* [[September 16]] &ndash; Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in [[Hvalsey Church]], in the last recorded event of the [[Norsemen|Norse]] [[history of Greenland]].
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Andronikos Palaiologos (son of Manuel II)|Andronikos Palaiologos]] becomes the new [[Byzantine Emperor]] of [[Thessaloniki|Thessalonica]] after the death of his brother, [[John VIII Palaiologos]]. 
* [[September 23]] &ndash; Henry, [[Prince of Wales]] (later [[Henry V of England]]) retakes [[Aberystwyth]] from [[Owain Glyndŵr]].<ref>Terry Breverton, ''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Owain_Glyndwr/8XGoAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Aberystwyth+September+1408&pg=PT228&printsec=frontcover Owain Glyndwr: The Story of the Last Prince of Wales]'' (Amberley Publishing, 2009)</ref>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Sultan Ahmad of Brunei|Awang Pateh Berbai]], in [[Nanjing]] in [[China]] as part of the family accompanying his nephew, the Sultan [[Abdul Majid Hassan]], becomes the new [[Sultan of Brunei]] when Abdul dies from an illness.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sidhu |first=Jatswan S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bry0sOwstIMC&dq=Sultan+Abdul+Majid+HAssan&pg=PA7 |title=Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam |date=2009-12-22 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7078-9 |language=en |page=7}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; The Antipope Benedict XIII convenes the [[Council of Perpignan]].<ref>Franz Ehrle, ''[https://archive.org/details/archivfrliterat02grgoog ''Archiv fur Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte'' 5 (1889)|Aus den Acten des Afterconcils von Perpignan]'' (1889) pp. 395-397</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; Emir [[Edigu]] of the [[Golden Horde]] reaches Moscow.
* [[December 13]] &ndash; The [[Order of the Dragon]] is founded under King [[Sigismund of Hungary]].

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* The [[Moldavia]]n town of [[Iaşi]] is first mentioned.
* The ''[[Yongle Encyclopedia]]'' is completed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yongle dadian {{!}} Chinese encyclopaedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yongle-dadian |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Gotland]] passes under [[Denmark|Danish]] rule.
* [[Zheng He]] delivers 300 virgins from [[Korea]] to the [[Ming dynasty|Chinese]] emperor.
* [[Michael I of Wallachia|Mihail I]] becomes co-ruler of [[Wallachia]], with his father [[Mircea I of Wallachia|Mircea cel Bătrân]].
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