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Year 1409 (MCDIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • January 1 – The Welsh surrender Harlech Castle to the English.
  • March 25 – The Council of Pisa opens. On June 5 it deposes Pope Gregory XII and Antipope Benedict XIII and on June 26 crowns Petros Philargos as Pope Alexander V; he is subsequently regarded as an antipope.
  • July – Martin I of Aragon succeeds his own son as King of Sicily.
  • August 7 – Council of Pisa closes.
  • December 2 – The University of Leipzig opens.
  • December 9 – Louis II of Anjou founds the University of Aix.

    • Date unknown

  • Ulugh Beg becomes governor of Samarkand.
  • The Republic of Venice purchases the port of Zadar from Hungary.
  • Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen of the Teutonic Knights guarantees peace with the Kalmar Union of Scandinavia by selling the Baltic Sea island of Gotland to Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
  • Cheng Ho (or Zheng He), admiral of the Ming empire fleet, deposes the king of Sri Lanka.

    • Births

  • January 16 – René of Anjou, king of Naples (d. 1480)
  • February 28 – Elisabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1442)
  • March 2 – Jean II, Duke of Alençon, son of John I of Alençon and his wife Marie of Brittany (d. 1476)
  • March 12 – Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra, Portuguese cuzhess (d. 1443)
  • September 13 – Joan of Valois, Duchess of Alençon, French duchess (d. 1432)
  • October 7 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1442)
  • October 21 – Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1473)
  • date unknown – Bernardo Rossellino, Florentine sculptor and architect

    • Deaths

  • May 13 – Jan_of_Tarnów, Polish nobleman
  • May 22 – Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)
  • July 25 – King Martin I of Sicily (b. 1374)
  • September 13 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (b. 1387)
  • date unknown – Thomas Merke, English bishop
  • probable – Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (b. 1376)

    • References

    1409 Wikipedia
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