1403

Year 1403 (MCDIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1403 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1403
MCDIII
Ab urbe condita2156
Armenian calendar852
ԹՎ ՊԾԲ
Assyrian calendar6153
Balinese saka calendar1324–1325
Bengali calendar810
Berber calendar2353
English Regnal year4 Hen. 4  5 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar1947
Burmese calendar765
Byzantine calendar6911–6912
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
4099 or 4039
     to 
癸未年 (Water Goat)
4100 or 4040
Coptic calendar1119–1120
Discordian calendar2569
Ethiopian calendar1395–1396
Hebrew calendar5163–5164
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1459–1460
 - Shaka Samvat1324–1325
 - Kali Yuga4503–4504
Holocene calendar11403
Igbo calendar403–404
Iranian calendar781–782
Islamic calendar805–806
Japanese calendarŌei 10
(応永10年)
Javanese calendar1317–1318
Julian calendar1403
MCDIII
Korean calendar3736
Minguo calendar509 before ROC
民前509年
Nanakshahi calendar−65
Thai solar calendar1945–1946
Tibetan calendar阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1529 or 1148 or 376
     to 
阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
1530 or 1149 or 377

Events

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

  • Jan Hus begins preaching Wycliffite ideas in Bohemia.
  • In China, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty
    • moves the capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
    • commissions the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the world's earliest and largest known general encyclopedias.
    • orders his coastal provinces to build a vast fleet of ships, with construction centered at Longjiang near Nanjing; the inland provinces are to provide wood and float it down the Yangtze River.
  • The Temple of a City God is constructed in Shanghai.
  • The Gur-e Amir Mausoleum is built in Samarkand by Timur, after the death of his grandson Muhammad Sultan, and eventually becomes the family mausoleum of the Timurid Dynasty.
  • Georgia makes peace with Timur, but has to recognise him as a suzerain and pay him tribute.
  • The world's first quarantine station is built in Venice, to protect against the Black Death.
  • Grand Duke Vytautas ends his alliance with Muscovy, and captures Vyazma and Smolensk.
  • Stefan Lazarević establishes Belgrade, as the capital of the Serbian Despotate.
  • A guild of stationers is founded in the City of London. As the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (the "Stationers' Company"), it continues to be a livery company in the 21st century.
  • In Ireland
    • Tadgh Ruadh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh, as King of Hy-Many, in present-day Galway and Roscommon.
    • Maolmhordha mac Con Connacht succeeds Giolla Iosa mac Pilib, as King of East Breifne, in present-day Leitrim and Cavan.
  • probable Ououso becomes King of Nanzan, in present-day south Okinawa, Japan.

Births

  • January 2 Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1472)
  • February 22 King Charles VII of France, monarch of the House of Valois, King of France from 1422 to his death (d. 1461)
  • June 11 John IV, Duke of Brabant, son of Antoine (d. 1427)
  • August 11 Ravenna Petrova, Princess of Amara Palace, daughter of William Hamilton and Anita Petrova. (d. 1423)
  • September 1 Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (d. 1445)
  • September 25 Louis III of Anjou (d. 1434)
  • September 29 Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (d. 1449)
  • date unknown
    • Robert Wingfield, English politician (d. 1454)
    • John IV, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1459)

Deaths

  • March 8 Beyazid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1354)
  • April 27 Maria of Bosnia, Countess of Helfenstein (b. 1335)
  • April Đurađ II Stracimirović, Serbian nobleman from the House of Balšić in Zeta
  • May 10 Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster, spouse of John of Gaunt
  • May 12 William de Lode, English prior
  • July 21 (at the Battle of Shrewsbury)
    • Sir Walter Blount, English soldier, standard-bearer of Henry IV (in battle)
    • Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, English soldier (in battle)
    • Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, English rebel (in battle)
  • July 23 Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
  • date unknown Vukosav Nikolić, Bosnian nobleman (in battle)
  • probable date Hajji Zayn al-Attar, Persian physician

References

  1. Rogers, Clifford J., ed. (2010). "Modon, Battle of". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Oxford University Press. pp. 13–14. ISBN 978-0-195334036.
  2. Kingsford, C. J. (1962) [1925]. "IV. West Country Piracy: The School of English Seamen". Prejudice and Promise in Fifteenth Century England. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7146-1488-5.
  3. Longmate, Norman (1990). Defending the Island. London: Grafton. ISBN 0-586-20845-3.
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