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1400. January 13 – Infante John of Portugal, the Constable (d. 1442) March 15 – Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, Justice Minister of France (d. 1472) May 19 – John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, English baron (d. 1462) June 14 – Joan Ramon II, Count of Cardona (d. 1471) July 26 – Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester, English noble ...
1453: The Battle of Castillon is the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War and the first battle in European history where cannons were a major factor in deciding the battle. 1453: Reign of Rajasawardhana ends. [11] 1454–1466: After defeating the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years' War, Poland annexes Royal Prussia.
Year 1400 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The year 1400 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar , it was a common year starting on Wednesday . The leap year began on a Thursday, and it ended on a Friday.
Mansa Musa I of Mali, described as the wealthiest individual in history [5] [6]. The Little Ice Age was a period of widespread cooling which, while conventionally defined as extending from around the 16th to the 19th centuries, is dated by some experts to a timespan from about 1300 to about 1850, during which average global temperatures dropped by as much as 2 °C (3.6 °F), particularly in ...
1400 BC: In Crete the use of bronze helmets (discovery at Knossos). [12] 1400 BC: Palace of Minos destroyed by fire. [13] c. 1400 BC: Linear A reaches its peak of popularity. [citation needed] c. 1400 BC: The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit. Royal Palace of Ugarit is built. [14] Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia. The ...
c. 1400 – Beginning of the European Age of Discovery. c. 1450: Norse colony in Greenland dies out [citation needed]. 1473 – João Vaz Corte-Real perhaps reaches Newfoundland; writes about the "Land of Cod fish" in his journal. 1479 - Treaty of Toledo ends the War of the Castilian Succession. Portugal won the exclusive right of navigating ...
The crisis of the late Middle Ages comprised a series of events across Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries (the late Middle Ages) that ended a centuries-long period of stability. [1] Three major crises led to radical changes in all areas of society: demographic collapse, political instability, and religious upheavals. [2]
Winter 1400/01 – Alice Perrers, mistress of King Edward III (born c. 1348) 1401 March – William Sawtrey, Lollard martyr (burned at the stake) (year of birth unknown) 8 April (or 8 August) – Thomas Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (born 1338) 1402 1 August – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III (born 1341) 1403