1421
Year 1421 (MCDXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Gregorian calendar | 1421 MCDXXI |
Ab urbe condita | 2174 |
Armenian calendar | 870 ԹՎ ՊՀ |
Assyrian calendar | 6171 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1342–1343 |
Bengali calendar | 828 |
Berber calendar | 2371 |
English Regnal year | 8 Hen. 5 – 9 Hen. 5 |
Buddhist calendar | 1965 |
Burmese calendar | 783 |
Byzantine calendar | 6929–6930 |
Chinese calendar | 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4117 or 4057 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4118 or 4058 |
Coptic calendar | 1137–1138 |
Discordian calendar | 2587 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1413–1414 |
Hebrew calendar | 5181–5182 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1477–1478 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1342–1343 |
- Kali Yuga | 4521–4522 |
Holocene calendar | 11421 |
Igbo calendar | 421–422 |
Iranian calendar | 799–800 |
Islamic calendar | 823–824 |
Japanese calendar | Ōei 28 (応永28年) |
Javanese calendar | 1335–1336 |
Julian calendar | 1421 MCDXXI |
Korean calendar | 3754 |
Minguo calendar | 491 before ROC 民前491年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −47 |
Thai solar calendar | 1963–1964 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1547 or 1166 or 394 — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1548 or 1167 or 395 |
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Events
January–December
- February 2 – Yongle Emperor, third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, shifts the Ming capital from Nanking to Peking.
- March 3 – Zheng He receives imperial order from Yongle Emperor to bring imperial letters, silk products, and other gifts to various rulers of countries around the Indian Ocean.
- March 21 – Battle of Baugé: A small French force surprises and defeats a smaller English force under Thomas, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Henry V of England, in Normandy.
- May 26 – Mehmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son, Murad II.
- November 17–19 – St. Elizabeth's flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded, due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10,000 people.
Date unknown
- John III of Dampierre, Marquis of Namur, sells his estates to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
- The first patent is issued by the Republic of Florence.[1]
- Portuguese sailors sent by Henry the Navigator cross Cape Non, going as far as Cape Bojador.
- Traditional date – Larabanga Mosque is founded, in modern-day northern Ghana.
Births
- March 9 – Francesco Sassetti, Italian banker (d. 1490)
- May 29 – Charles, Prince of Viana (d. 1461)
- June 3 – Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1463)
- July 25 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
- August 1 – Thomas Dutton, English knight (d. 1459)
- October 10 – John Paston, English politician (d. 1466)
- December 6 – King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)[2]
- date unknown – Sōgi, Japanese poet and Buddhist priest (d. 1502)
Deaths
- January 10 – Niccolò I Trinci, lord of Foligno (assassinated)
- January 15 – Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, queen consort of Armenia and Cyprus (born 1353)
- March 22 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (born 1388)
- April 21 – John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (born 1385)
- May – Balša III, ruler of Zeta
- May 26 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
- June 21 – Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (b. 1366)
References
- Terence, Kealey (1996), The Economic Laws of Scientific Research
- Szarmach, Paul E.; Tavormina, M. Teresa; Rosenthal, Joel T. (2017). Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998): An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 348. ISBN 9781351666374.
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