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Year 1401 was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .

EVENTS OF 1401

Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.

Passing of the De Heretico Comburendo Act in England - the Archbishop Of Canterbury pressures King Henry IV Of England into outlawing as Heretics anyone owning an English translation of the Bible .

Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northern India .

Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania is granted increased autonomy by King Jogaila of the Poland - Lithuania union.

Emperor Ho Quy Ly of Dai Ngu (now Vietnam ) passes the throne to his son, Thai Thuong Hoang.

A civil war, lasting four years, breaks out in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia .

The Joseon Dynasty in the present-day Korea officially enters into a Tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.

Japan re-enters into a Tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.

BIRTHS

May 12 - Emperor Shoko Of Japan (died 1428 )

July 23 - Francesco I Sforza , Duke of Milan (died 1466 )

October 27 - Catherine Of Valois , queen of Henry VI Of England (died 1437 )

November 26 - Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl Of Somerset (died 1418 )

December 21 - Tommaso Masaccio , Italian painter (died 1428 )

Charles I, Duke Of Bourbon (died 1456 )

Jacqueline, Countess Of Hainaut (died 1436 )

''probable''

--- Nicholas Of Cusa , German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (died 1464 )

DEATHS

March - William Sawtrey , English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)

April 8 (or August 8 ) Thomas De Beauchamp, 12th Earl Of Warwick (born 1338 )

October 20 - Klaus Störtebeker , German pirate

''date unknown''

--- Anabella Drummond , queen of Scotland