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== Events == <onlyinclude> === January–March === * [[January 31]] – [[Mircea I of Wallachia|Mircea I]], [[List of princes of Wallachia|Prince of Wallachia]] (now part of southern Romania), dies after a reign of 21 years and is succeeded by his son, [[Michael I of Wallachia|Mihail I]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Treptow |first=Kurt W. |year=2000 |title=Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula |publisher=The Center of Romanian Studies |page=37 |isbn=973-98392-2-3 }}</ref> * [[February 7]] – The [[Lam Sơn uprising]] in Chinese-occupied Vietnam beginsduring the [[Tết]] holiday as a group of 18 men led by [[Lê Lợi]] begin a nine year rebellion against Ming dynasty China.<ref>{{citation| surname = Anderson | given = James A. | chapter = The Ming invasion of Vietnam, 1407–1427| pages =92| title = East Asia in the World: Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order| editor-given1 = David C.| editor-surname1 = Kang| editor-given2 = Stephan | editor-surname2 = Haggard| location = Cambridge | publisher = Cambridge University Press| year = 2020 | isbn = 978-1-108-47987-5}}</ref> * [[February 20]] – At [[Srinagar]], in what is now [[India]], [[Zayn al-Abidin the Great|Zayn al-Abidin]], already the [[vizier]] (Wazir) of the [[Kashmir Sultanate]], is crowned as the new Sultan after he overthrows his older brother, the Sultan [[Ali Shah Miri]].<ref>{{citation |first=Mohibbul |last=Hasan |title=Kashmir Under the Sultans |location=Delhi |publisher=Aakar Books |edition=Reprinted |year=2005 |orig-date=first published 1959|page= 70|isbn=978-81-87879-49-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUlwmXjE9DQC }}</ref> * [[March 21]] – The [[Concordats of Constance]] are approved by the Council of Constance for signing by the various parties.<ref name=Creighton>Mandell Creighton, ''A History of the Papacy during the Period of the Reformation, Vol. I: The Great Schism—The Council of Constance, 1378–1418'' (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1882), pp. 406–407.</ref> * [[March 24]] – [[Švitrigaila]] of [[Lithuania]], son of the late Grand Duke Algirdas, is freed after nine years imprisonment at Lithuania's [[Kremenets Castle]] after a group of 500 soldiers, led by Dashko Ostrogski, storm the castle.<ref name=matus>{{cite book| last=Matusas |first=Jonas | title=Švitrigaila Lietuvos didysis kunigaikštis (Svitrigaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania) |publisher=Mintis |location=Vilnius |edition=2nd |year= 1991 |isbn=5-417-00473-1 |page=166}}</ref> === April–June === * [[April 15]] – The delegates from France and Germany sign the Concordats.<ref name=Marcati>Giovanni Mercati, ed., ''Raccolta di concordati su materie ecclesiastiche tra la Santa Sede e le autorità civili, 1098–1914'' (Vatican City, 1954), vol. I, pp. 144–168</ref> * [[April 22]] – The [[Council of Constance]] ends.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reich |first=Emil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5F89AAAAYAAJ |title=Select Documents Illustrating Mediæval and Modern History |date=1915 |publisher=P.S. King & Son |pages=197–198 |language=fr}}</ref> * [[May 13]] – Spain approves and signs the [[Concordats of Constance]].<ref name=Marcati/> * [[May 29]] – [[Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War]]:[[John the Fearless]], [[Duke of Burgundy]], captures [[Paris]], forcing King Charles VI to flee from the violence of John's partisans.<ref>{{cite book |last=Vaughan |year=2005 |first=Richard |title=John the Fearless |edition=reprinted new |series=The Dukes of Burgundy |volume=2 |publisher=Boydell Press |page=263 |isbn=978-0851159164 |url={{googlebooks|dSCA2apwD8IC|plainurl=y}}}}</ref> *[[June 3]] – Because of the rebellion of his son, [[Grand Prince Yangnyeong]] (Yi Che), King Taejong of Korea permanently disowns Yangnyeong as heir to the throne.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Park |first1=Hong-Kyu |title=King Taejong as a statesman: From power to authority |journal=Korea Journal |date=December 22, 2006 |volume=46 |issue=4 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297886659 |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref> *[[June 12]] – [[Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War]]: [[Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac]], is assassinated by the Burgundian followers of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and a massacre of suspected Armagnacs begins, with more than 1,000 and perhaps as many as 5,000 civilians killed.<ref name=Sizer>{{cite journal| last=Sizer| first=Michael| title=The Calamity of Violence: Reading the Paris Massacres of 1418| journal=Proceedings of the Western Society for French History| volume=35| publisher=Michigan Publishing| url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/0642292.0035.002?view=text;rgn=main| date=2007 }}</ref> === July–September === *[[July 8]] – [[Sejong the Great|Chungnyeong]] is named by his father, King Taejong of Korea, as the new heir to the throne as Grand Prince, replacing Yangnyeong.<ref>Hong Yi-Seop, ''Sejong the Great'' (Seoul: Sejong the Great Memorial Society, 2011), p.18</ref> *[[July 12]] – England approves and signs the [[Concordats of Constance]].<ref name=Marcati/> * [[July 29]] – The Army of [[England]], led by King Henry V, begins the [[Siege of Rouen (1418–1419)|siege of Rouen]], the capital of [[Normandy]] in [[France]]. The siege lasts almost six months before the Burgundian French defenders surrender<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wagner |first=J. A. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65205034 |title=Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War |date=2006 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=0-313-32736-X |location=Westport, Conn. |pages=322 |oclc=65205034}}</ref> * [[August 10]] – [[Taejong of Joseon|King Taejong]], ruler of the kingdom of [[Joseon]] that encompasses most of Korea, agrees to abdicate his throne in order for his son [[Sejong the Great|Prince Yi Do]] to become the new monarch. Taejong then becomes the [[Styles and titles in Joseon|King Emeritus]] (''Sangwang''). *[[August 21]] – [[Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War]]: The massacre of the Armagnacs ends in Paris after as many as 5,000 people have been killed in retaliation for the assassination of John the Fearless.<ref name=Sizer/> * [[August 23]] – [[Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda]], Duchess of Milan as the wife of the Duke [[Filippo Maria Visconti]], is secretly arrested for adultery and removed from the walled city of [[Milan]] while its gates are locked.<ref>{{cite book |last=Corio |first=Bernardino |author-link=Bernardino Corio |title=Historia cōtinente da lorigine di Milano tutti li gesti, fatti, e detti preclari |trans-title=History from the origin of Milan to all the gestures, facts, and famous sayings |publication-place=Venice |publisher=Giorgio De Cavalli |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10162022 |year=1565 |orig-year=1503 |oclc=165998125 |language=it|via=Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)}} (reprinted 1856)</ref> On her husband's orders, she is transferred to the ''[[Visconti Castle (Binasco)|Castello Visconteo]]'' in nearby [[Binasco]], where she, two of her maidens, and her lover, the troubadour Michele Orombelli, are tortured. Beatrice is beheaded on September 13, and her three accomplices are put to death on the same day. * [[September 13]] – Commissioned by the Sultan [[Al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh]] of Egypt and supervised by the Shaykh's Emir Abu Bakr al-Yaghmuri, the rebuilding of the [[Ibn Uthman Mosque]] begins in [[Gaza City]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, G |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2LtyFVNJmcC |first1=Moshe |last1=Sharon |authorlink=Moshe Sharon |year=2009 |volume=4 |publisher=BRILL |page=155 |isbn=978-90-04-17085-8}}</ref> The Mosque will be completed in [[1431]] but will be destroyed almost 600 years later in [[2024]] by an airstrike from the [[State of Israel]]. * [[September 18]] – Prince Yi Do, son of Korea's King Emeritus Taejong, is enthroned as [[Sejong the Great|King Sejong]], and will make major reforms during his reign of more than 30 years.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240606124934/https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0019665 "The 4th king of Joseon (reign: 1418-1450)"], in ''[[Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]]'' (The Academy of Korean Studies, 2014)</ref><ref>Hong Yi-Seop, ''Sejong the Great'' (Seoul: Sejong the Great Memorial Society, 2011), p.19</ref> === October–December === * [[October 2]] – [[Sim On]] is appointed as the new [[Yeonguijeong|Chief State Councillor of Korea]] (''Yeonguijeong'') by the new monarch, King Sejong, but is only in power for three months before being arrested and subsequently executed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kang et al. Are Interrogated And Shim On Is Identified As Ringleader |url=https://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kda_10011023_002 |website=Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty |publisher=[[National Institute of Korean History]]}}</ref> * [[October 30]] – The [[Byzantine Empire]] and the [[Republic of Venice]] sign a treaty of commerce.<ref>{{Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit|article=29091. Tóρια 'Ιλαρíων}}</ref> * [[November 21]] – [[Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict]]: In Germany, the Treaty of [[Ueckermünde]] is signed by the Dukes of [[Pomerania-Stettin]] (Otto II and Casimir V) with the Dukes of [[Mecklenburg-Schwerin]] (Albert V), [[Werle|Mecklenburg-Werle]] (Lord Christopher) and [[Mecklenburg-Stargard]] (John III) to ally against the [[Electorate of Brandenburg]], ruled by the [[House of Hohenzollern]] elector [[Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg|Friedrich I]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Geschichte in Daten. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|first1=Gerhard|last1=Heitz|first2=Henning|last2=Rischer|publisher=Koehler&Amelang|location=Münster-Berlin|year=1995|page=190|isbn=3-7338-0195-4|language=German}}</ref> * [[December 28]] – The [[Charles VII of France|Dauphin Charles]], crown prince of France, reclaims the city of [[Tours]] from the Burgundians after a month-long siege.<ref>{{Harvsp|Chevalier|1985|p=|loc=La naissance de la bonne ville : XIIIe au XVe siècle|pages=111–112}}</ref> * [[December 30]] – The [[Ming treasure voyages|Ming Chinese explorers]], commanded by Admiral [[Zheng He]], arrive in [[Yemen]] to open trade with the Arab kingdom, and the admiral is brought to the court of the Emir [[al-Nasir Ahmad ibn Isma'il|Al Malik al Nasir]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ray |first1=Haraprasad |title=The Eighth Voyage of the Dragon that Never Was: An Enquiry into the Causes of Cessation of Voyages During Early Ming Dynasty |journal=China Report |date=1987b |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=157–178 |doi=10.1177/000944558702300202|s2cid=155029177 }}</ref> The Chinese stay until January 27. === Date unknown === * [[João Gonçalves Zarco]] leads one of the first [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] expeditions to the [[Madeira Islands]]. </onlyinclude>
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