- 1404
Year 1404 was a
leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1404
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June 14 - Rebel leaderOwain Glyndŵr , having declared himselfPrince of Wales , allies with the French against the English. He later begins holdingparliament ary assemblies.
*October 17 -Pope Innocent VII succeedsPope Boniface IX as the 204thpope .
*November 19 -St. Elizabeth's flood devastates parts ofFlanders ,Zeeland andHolland .
* StefanTvrtko II succeedsStefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia.
* Peace is declared betweenLithuania and theTeutonic Knights after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance againstMuscovy .
* TheUniversity of Turin is founded.
*Timur is hit by a fever while preparing to invadeChina .
*Centurione II Zaccaria succeeds Maria II Zaccaria as ruler of thePrincipality of Achaea .
*Virupaksha Raya succeedsHarihara Raya II as ruler of theVijayanagara Empire in present-day southernIndia .
* Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat as King ofCambodia .
* Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Og MacDermot as King of Moylurg in present-day north-eastConnacht ,Ireland .
* The city ofVicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.Births
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February 9 -Constantine XI , lastByzantine Emperor (d.1453 )
*February 14 -Leone Battista Alberti , Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d.1472 )
*March 25 - (baptism) -John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset , English military leader (d.1444 )
*June -Murad II ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1451 )
*July 25 -Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d.1430 )
*September 10 -Gilles de Rais , French aristocrat (d.1440 )
*October 14 -Marie of Anjou , queen ofCharles VII of France (d.1463 )
*"date unknown"
**Yamana Sōzen , Japanese warlord and monk (d.1473 )Deaths
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April 27 -Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b.1342 )
*September 14 - DukeAlbert IV of Austria (b.1377 )
*September 27 -William of Wykeham , English bishop and statesman (b.1320 )
*October 1 -Pope Boniface IX (b.1356 )
*October 15 -Marie Valois , French princess (b.1344 )
*December 13 -Albert, Count of Holland (b.1336 )
*"date unknown" -Eleanor of Arborea , ruler of Sardinia (b.1350 )
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