1412

Year 1412 (MCDXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) on the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1412 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1412
MCDXII
Ab urbe condita2165
Armenian calendar861
ԹՎ ՊԿԱ
Assyrian calendar6162
Balinese saka calendar1333–1334
Bengali calendar819
Berber calendar2362
English Regnal year13 Hen. 4  14 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar1956
Burmese calendar774
Byzantine calendar6920–6921
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4108 or 4048
     to 
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4109 or 4049
Coptic calendar1128–1129
Discordian calendar2578
Ethiopian calendar1404–1405
Hebrew calendar5172–5173
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1468–1469
 - Shaka Samvat1333–1334
 - Kali Yuga4512–4513
Holocene calendar11412
Igbo calendar412–413
Iranian calendar790–791
Islamic calendar814–815
Japanese calendarŌei 19
(応永19年)
Javanese calendar1326–1327
Julian calendar1412
MCDXII
Korean calendar3745
Minguo calendar500 before ROC
民前500年
Nanakshahi calendar−56
Thai solar calendar1954–1955
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1538 or 1157 or 385
     to 
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1539 or 1158 or 386

Events

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

  • The first mention is made of Wallachian knights competing in a jousting tournament, in Buda.
  • John II of Castile declares the Valladolid laws, that restrict the social rights of Jews. Among many other restrictions, the laws force Jews to wear distinctive clothes, and deny them administrative positions.
  • Years after its publication in the 14th century, the Ming Dynasty Chinese artillery officer Jiao Yu adds the preface to his classic book on gunpowder warfare, the Huolongjing.

Births

  • January 6 Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint (tradition holds that she was born on the Feast of the Epiphany, but there is no documentary evidence) (d. 1431)
  • January 26 William IV, Lord of Egmont, IJsselstein, Schoonderwoerd and Haastrecht and Stadtholder of Guelders (d. 1483)
  • April 22 Reinhard III, Count of Hanau (1451–1452) (d. 1452)
  • June 5 Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (d. 1478)
  • August 22 Frederick II, Elector of Saxony and Margrave of Meissen (1428–1464) and Landgrave of Thuringia (1440–1445) (d. 1464)
  • November 17 Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (d. 1468)
  • December 8 Astorre II Manfredi, Italian noble (d. 1468)

Deaths

  • March Albrekt of Mecklenburg, king of Sweden 13641389 (b. 1336)
  • April 2 Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Castilian traveller and writer
  • May 16 Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
  • August 6 Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (b. 1347)
  • September 14 Ingegerd Knutsdotter, Swedish abbess (b. 1356)
  • October 28 Margaret I of Denmark, queen regnant of Denmark of Norway since 1387 and of Sweden since 1389 (b. 1353)[3]
  • date unknown Ignatius Abraham bar Garib, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin[4]
  • date unknown Jalal ad-Din khan, khan of the Golden Horde

References

  1. "Mediaeval university" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  2. Barsoum, Ephrem (2003). The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by Matti Moosa (2nd ed.). Gorgias Press. p. 497.
  3. Edward A. Thomas (1888). Comprehensive Dictionary of Biography: Containing Succinct Accounts of the Most Eminent Persons in All Ages, Countries, and Professions. Porter & Coates. p. 379.
  4. Barsoum, Ephrem (2003). The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by Matti Moosa (2nd ed.). Gorgias Press. p. 495.
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