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Year 1408 (MCDVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: a royalist army defeats the last remnants of the Percy rebellion.
  • September – Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.
  • September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland.
  • December 13 – The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.

    • Date unknown

  • The Moldavian town of Iaşi is first mentioned.
  • The Yongle Encyclopedia is completed.
  • Gotland passes under Danish rule.
  • Zheng He delivers 300 virgins from Korea to the Chinese emperor.

    • Births

  • January 25 – Katharina of Hanau, First wife of Thomas II of Rieneck and third wife of William II of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1460)
  • February 14 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
  • March 25 – Agnes of Baden, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg, German noble (d. 1473)
  • April 8 – Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (d. 1431)
  • April 23 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1462)
  • May 22 – Annamacharya, mystic saint composer (d. 1503)
  • October 1 or 1409 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden (d. 1470)
  • date unknown – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)

    • Deaths

  • February 19 – Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel (in battle)
  • February 20 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English rebel (in battle) (b. 1342)
  • April – Miran Shah, son of Timur (b. 1366)
  • April 10 or April 11 – Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
  • May 24 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
  • May 31 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
  • September 22 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)
  • December 4 – Valentina Visconti, wife of Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
  • date unknown – Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria

    • References

    1408 Wikipedia
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