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== Events == <onlyinclude> === January–March === * [[January 10]] – At [[Patan, Gujarat|Anhilpur Patan]] in what is now the state of Gujarat in India, [[Ahmad Shah I]] becomes the new [[Gujarat Sultanate|Sultan of Gujarat]] upon the death of his grandfather, [[Muzaffar Shah I]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=James Macnabb|title=History of Gujarát|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm|series=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency|volume=I. Part II. Musalmán Gujarát. (A.D. 1297–1760.)|year=1896|publisher=The Government Central Press|chapter=Chapter II. "Ahmedabad Kings (A. D. 1403–1573)|page=236}}</ref> * [[January 18]] – [[Jobst of Moravia|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, Holy Roman Emperor|Sigismund of Hungary]], to become the new [[King of the Romans]], and for control of the [[Electorate of Brandenburg]] to go from the House of Luxembourg to the House of Hohenzollern, with [[Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg|Frederick of Hohenzollern]] becoming the new Elector in return for supporting the election of Sigismund.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Jobst |volume=15 |page=427}}</ref> * [[February 1]] – The [[Peace of Thorn (1411)|First Peace of Thorn]] is signed at [[Toruń|Thorn]] (now Torun in Poland) in the [[Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights]], ending the [[Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmSsBDy1G0EC&q=Peace+of+Thorn+%281411%29+1+february&pg=PA254|title=The Crusades: A History|last=Riley-Smith|first=Jonathan Simon Christopher|date=2005|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300101287|pages=254|language=en}}</ref> The Knights cede the region of [[Dobrzyń Land]] to the Kingdom of Poland. * [[February 8]] – In Spain, a parliament or 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bonneaud |first=Pierre |title=Le Rôle politique des ordres militaires dans la Couronne d'Aragón pendant l'interrègne de 1410 à 1412 à travers les ''Anales'' de Zurita ("The political role of military orders in the Crown of Aragón during the interregnum from 1410 to 1412 through the ''Anales'' of Zurita") |journal=Aragón en la Edad Media |volume=14 |year=1999 |page=115}}</ref> Although [[James II, Count of Urgell|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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kastritsis |first=Dimitris |title=The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402-13 |publisher=BRILL |year=2007 |isbn=978-90-04-15836-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_evCQAAQBAJ |pages=153–158}}</ref> * [[February 26]] – (2 [[Dhu al-Qi'dah]] 813 [[Hijri year|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.<ref name="Pandya 2010">{{cite web |last=Pandya |first=Yatin |title=In Ahmedabad, history is still alive as tradition |website=dna |date=14 November 2010 |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-in-ahmedabad-history-is-still-alive-as-tradition-1466396 |access-date=26 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.egovamc.com/AhmCity/history.aspx|title=History|website=[[Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation]]|access-date=27 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223012426/http://egovamc.com/AhmCity/history.aspx|archive-date=23 February 2016}}</ref>) at [[Manek Burj]]. *[[March 4]] – **[[Friso-Hollandic Wars]]: [[Friesland]] soldiers capture the [[Netherlands]] city of [[Stavoren|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.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad |date=7 January 2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EL4IAAAAQAAJ |access-date=1 February 2015|pages=249}}</ref> === 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]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Fine (Jr.) |first1=John V. A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvVbRrH1QBgC&q=john+zenevisi+1411 |title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest |last2=Fine |first2=John Van Antwerp |date=1994 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |page=355 |isbn=978-0-472-08260-5 |language=en}}</ref> * [[April 13]] – [[Sandalj Hranić]], [[Duke of Bosnia]], sells the Croatian coatal town of [[Ostrovica, Croatia|Ostrovica]] to the [[Republic of Venice]], giving the Venetians further control of the Dalmatian Coast and both sides of the [[Adriatic Sea]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Mužić|editor-first=Ivan|title=Vlasi u starijoj hrvatskoj historiografiji ("Vlachs and Old Balkan pre-Christian symbolism of deer on stećci")|year=2010|publisher=Muzej hrvatskih arheoloških spomenika (Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments)|language=hr|location=[[Split (city)|Split]]|pages=230–231|isbn=978-953-6803-25-5}} p. 230-231</ref> * [[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 [[:it:Battaglia di Roccasecca|Battle of Roccasecca]] in the Lazio region of Italy.<ref>Giovanni Battista Carafa, ''Dell'historie del Regno di Napoli'' (The History of the Kingdom of Naples) (Naples:Giuseppe Cacchi, 1572) p.158</ref> * [[June 3]] – At [[Vienna]], [[Frederick IV, Duke of Austria|Friedrich IV]], nicknamed "Friedrich of the Empty Pockets", becomes the new [[List of rulers of Austria|Duke of Further Austria]] upon the death of his older brother, [[Leopold IV, Duke of Austria|Leopold the Fat]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of the Habsburg Empire 1273–1700 |first1=Jean |last1=Berenger |translator-first=C.A. |translator-last=Simpson |publisher=Routledge |year=2013|page=62 }}</ref> * [[June 4]] – The French city of [[Roquefort-sur-Soulzon]] is given exclusive rights by [[Charles VI of France|King Charles VI]] to the ripening and marketing of [[Roquefort]] [[cheese]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Companion to Cheese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pRrGDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT237|access-date=2 June 2018|year=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0199330904|page=237}}</ref> === July–September === * [[July 6]] – [[Ming Dynasty]] Chinese Admiral [[Zheng He]] returns to [[Nanjing]] after his [[Treasure voyages#Second voyage|second voyage]], and presents the [[Sinhalese people|Sinhalese]] king, captured during the [[Ming–Kotte War]], to the [[Yongle Emperor]].<ref>{{cite book |last = Mills |first = J. V. G. |title = Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433] |title-link = Yingya Shenglan |year = 1970 |publisher = Cambridge University Press |location = Cambridge, England |pages=11–12 |isbn = 0-521-01032-2 }}</ref> * [[July 21]] – Sigismund is formally [[1410–1411 elections (Holy Roman Empire)|elected unanimously as King of the Romans]] by the seven electors of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] present. * [[July 24]] – [[Battle of Harlaw]] in [[Kingdom of Scotland|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, [[Malaccan Sultanate|Sultan of Malacca]] in what is now Malaysia, is hosted by the Ming Court in China for the first of three banquets to honor his visit.<ref>{{citation |last=Wade |first=Geoff |title=Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource |url=http://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/ |publisher=Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore |year=2005 |page=770 |access-date=November 6, 2012}}</ref> * [[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.<ref>Jonathan Sumption, ''The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) pp.288-289</ref> * [[October 22]] – The Duke of Burgundy and his troops capture Paris with the help of English mercenaries.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Fifteenth Century|publisher=Oxford University Press |chapter=3|year=1961 |pages=111|isbn=978-0198217145|author-last=Jacob |author-first=E. F.}}</ref> * [[November 3]] – The [[English Parliament]] is assembled after being summoned by King Henry IV, and elects [[Thomas Chaucer]] as Speaker of the House of Commons again. * [[November 24]] – The Swiss canton of [[Appenzell]] enters into an alliance with most of the cantons of the [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Swiss Confederacy]].<ref>{{EB1911 |inline=y |wstitle=Appenzell (canton) |display=Appenzell |volume=2 |pages=220–221 |first=W. A. B. |last=Coolidge|authorlink=W. A. B. Coolidge}}</ref> * [[November 30]] – [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]] dismisses Prince [[Henry V of England|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<ref>{{cite DNB |last=Tout |first=T.F. |display=Glendower, Owen (1359?–1416?), Welsh rebel |volume=21 |wstitle=Glendower, Owen |author-link=Thomas Frederick Tout|year=1901|page=434 }}</ref> === Date unknown === * Under the [[Yongle Emperor]] of [[Ming dynasty|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 lock]]s. Four large [[reservoir]]s 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 [[Siege of Constantinople (1411)|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 I|Mehmed Çelebi]] and [[Musa Çelebi]], during the [[Ottoman Interregnum]].</onlyinclude>
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