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1405

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Year 1405 (MCDV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • May 29 – In England, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, meets Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home and then imprisons them.
  • June 8 – Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
  • July 11 – Ming Dynasty fleet commander Zheng He sets sail from Suzhou to explore the world for the first time.
  • October 5 – Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes a letter to Queen Isabeau urging her to intervene in the political struggle between the dukes of Burgundy and Orleans.
  • November 17 – The Sultanate of Sulu is established on the Sulu Archipelago off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines.

    • Date unknown

  • Bath Abbey is built in England.
  • First written record of whiskey being consumed recorded in Ireland, where it is distilled by Catholic monks.
  • Bellifortis, a book on military technology, is published by Konrad Kyeser.
  • Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies.

    • Births

  • February 8 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
  • February 22 – Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy, Scottish noble (d. 1489)
  • March 6 – King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
  • May 6 – George Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero (d. 1468) (probable date)
  • October 18 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
  • date unknown – Louis I, Count of Montpensier (d. 1486)

    • Deaths

  • January 12 – Eleanor Maltravers, English noblewoman (b. 1345)
  • February 14 – Timur (aka Tamerlane), Turco-Mongol monarch and conqueror (b.1336)
  • April 19 – Thomas West, 1st Baron West (b. 1335)
  • May 29 – Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
  • June 8
  • Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, executed in York (b. c.1350)
  • Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, executed in York (b. 1385)
  • June 20 – Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, fourth son of King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1343)
  • probable – Jean Froissart, French chronicler (b. 1337)

    • References

    1405 Wikipedia
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