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Year 1416 (MCDXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • January 27 – The Republic of Ragusa is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.
  • May 30 – The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.

    • Date unknown

  • The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge (the longest arch bridge in the world at the time) is destroyed.
  • Ottoman–Venetian maritime treaty (1416)

    • Births

  • February 26 – Christopher of Bavaria (d. 1448)
  • March 27 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
  • March 28 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489)
  • May 25 – Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace (d. 1480)
  • October 26 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490)
  • date unknown
  • Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (d. 1470)
  • Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
  • Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1469)
  • probable – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (d. 1472)

    • Deaths

  • February 27 – Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363)
  • April 2 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (b. 1379)
  • May 21 – Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (b. 1386)
  • May 30 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)
  • June 15 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
  • October 1 – Yaqub Spata, lord of Arta
  • October 14 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  • date unknown – The Limbourg brothers, painters of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
  • probable – Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh Prince and leader of the Welsh Revolt

    • References

    1416 Wikipedia
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