1418

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Year 1418 (MCDXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

January–December

January 31 – Mircea I of Wallachia is succeeded by Michael I of Wallachia.

April 22 – The Council of Constance ends.

May 19 – Paris is captured by John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy.

July – The English Siege of Rouen begins.

João Gonçalves Zarco leads one of the first Portuguese expeditions to the Madeira Islands.

January 9 – Juan Ramón Folch III de Cardona, Admiral (d. 1485)

March 14 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1429–1492) (d. 1492)

May 16 – John II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458 (d. 1458)

July 10 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)

August 5 – Malatesta Novello, Italian condottiero (d. 1456)

September 24 – Anne of Cyprus, Italian noble (d. 1462)

November 2 – Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder famous for his diary (diario) (d. 1504)

November 20 – Robert de Morley, 6th Baron Morley, Lord of Morley Saint Botolph (d. 1442)

December 8 – Queen Jeonghui, Queen consort of Korea (d. 1483)

December 12 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)

date unknown – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1457)

January 31 – Mircea I of Wallachia, ruler of Wallachia (b. 1355)

March 22 – Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian

June 2 – Katherine of Lancaster, queen of Henry III of Castile

June 12 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)

November 25 – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (b. 1401)

December 11 – Louis of Piedmont (b. 1364)

date unknown – Ixtlilxochitl I, ruler of the Mesoamerican city-state of Texcoco, and ally of the Aztecs

date unknown – Foelke Kampana, Frisian lady and regent (b. 1355)

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