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Calendar overview 1406
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| 1406 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 854/855 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1398/99 |
| Aztec calendar | 4th house - Nahui Calli (until the end of January / beginning of February: 3rd Feuerstein - Jei Tecpatl ) |
| Buddhist calendar | 1949/50 (southern Buddhism); 1948/49 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 68th (69th) cycle
Year of the Fire Dog丙戌 ( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster 乙酉) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 768/769 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 784/785 |
| Islamic calendar | 808/809 (turn of the year June 17th / 18th) |
| Jewish calendar | 5166/67 (September 12/13) |
| Coptic calendar | 1122/23 |
| Malayalam calendar | 581/582 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1716/17 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1717/18 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1444 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1462/63 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
England / Scotland
- April 4th : Due to the death of his father Robert III. James I becomes formally King of Scotland . However, he has been in captivity by King Henry IV of England since March 22nd . His uncle Robert Stewart , who has taken over the reign of the Kingdom of Scotland , takes his time to send the requested ransom.
- English law provides that all elections are free and sealed with a charter signed by all voters. The right of the election examination originally belongs to the king. In a law, Heinrich IV instructs the traveling assistant judges to review the election reports.
Holy Roman Empire
- July 15 : After the death of Wilhelm the Friendly , the Habsburg inheritance is redistributed between his two brothers. Leopold the Fat , previously Count of Tyrol, takes over the guardianship of his nephew Albrecht V and the regency for the Duchy of Austria ; Ernst der Eiserne becomes Duke of Inner Austria , consisting of Styria , Carinthia and Krain and Friedrich with the empty pocket receives the county of Tyrol in addition to his previous possession of Vorderösterreich , which forms the administrative unit of Upper Austria .
- August 23 : The Tyrolean nobility founds the Society of the Elephant for five years to support each other . After a short military conflict with Appenzeller lansquenets within the Appenzeller wars , which the Arlberg to Imst have penetrated, further as a result of conflicts between the ducal brothers Leopold the thicknesses and Ernst the iron, to 21 nobles unite led by Ulrich von Mätsch to a Adelsbund , the Sankt Jörgenschild , for their well-acquired professional rights both against the Tyrolean sovereign Friedrich with the empty pocket, as well as against the governor Heinrich VI. of Rottenburg to defend.
Southern Europe
- October 9 : After a six-month siege, Pisa , which has risen against the occupation by the Florentine agent Gino Capponi , is handed over to Florence by Giovanni Gambacorti . The city is not looted, but many citizens are expelled or forcibly moved to Florence. Florence now has a large sea port and is therefore able to conduct sea trade directly.
- December 25th : Johann II, just 22 months old, succeeds his late father on the throne of Castile . When he was a minor, his mother Katharina von Lancaster and his uncle Ferdinand von Antequera ran the government. This double reign turns out to be very conflictual and divides the country into two camps.
Asia
- The Chinese Emperor Yongle announced that he would move the capital of the empire from Nanjing to the north of the country and began building the Forbidden City in Beijing .
First documentary mentions
- The places Hosterwitz and Wenden are first mentioned in a document.
economy
- Saxon coin history # Groschenzeit : After the death of Landgrave Balthasar of Thuringia , the Sangerhausen mint is closed.
Culture
- After July 10: The Château Saint-Maire in Lausanne , commissioned by Bishop Guillaume de Menthonay , will be completed after around nine years of construction under his successor Guillaume de Challant . De Menthonay was murdered by his hairdresser shortly before completion.
religion
Gregory XII. in Schedel's world chronicle
- March 13th : Pope Innocent VII, expelled by the Romans, returns to Rome . He dies on November 6th . After a twelve-day conclave , Angelo Correr, the Patriarch of Venice, was named Gregory XII. elected the new Pope on November 30th . His pontificate is shaped by the occidental schism . His plan to meet with antipope Benedict XIII in Savona . to meet is prevented by his own supporters, who fear that the aged Pope is not up to the younger Benedict.
- May 15th : The Canonia B. Mariae in Gaesdonck prope Goch , a monastery of the Regulated Canons of St. Augustine of the Congregation of Windesheim is consecrated.
- The Lords of Hirschhorn donate the Carmelite monastery church of the Annunciation and the neighboring monastery in Hirschhorn am Neckar, directly below Hirschhorn Castle . Konrad von Hirschhorn is canon in Speyer and probably the driving force behind the founding of the monastery, which was approved by Pope Innocent VII in 1405 .
- The Dominican monastery of San Domenico in Fiesole is founded.
Disasters
- A Danish chronicle tells of the plague after a flood of rain in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, in which around a tenth of the population is killed .
nature and environment
- June 16 : A solar eclipse is observed in Germany and other parts of Europe .
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 13 : Matteo Palmieri , Italian humanist († 1475 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Joan Beaufort , Queen of Scotland († 1445 )
- Louis I. de Bourbon, comte de Montpensier , French nobleman, Count of Montpensier and of Clermont-en-Auvergne from the House of Bourbon († 1486 )
- Geoffrey Boleyn , Lord Mayor of London († 1463 )
- Maffeo Gherardi , Patriarch of Venice († 1492 )
- Johann , Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach († 1464 )
- Bartolomeo Roverella , Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna († 1476 )
- Shinkei , Japanese poet († 1475 )
- Ulrich II of Cilli , Count of Cilli († 1456 )
Died
First half of the year
- January 17th : Raimondo Orsini del Balzo , Count of Soleto, Duke of Benevento, Prince of Taranto, Count of Lecce, Duke of Bari
- March 17th : Ibn Chaldun , Islamic historian and politician (* 1332 )
- April 4th : Robert III. , King of Scotland (* 1337 )
- April 5th : Konrad Torer von Törlein , Bishop of Lavant
- May 4th : Coluccio Salutati , Italian humanist (* 1331 )
- May 16 : Walter Fitzwalter, 5th Baron Fitzwalter , English nobleman (* 1368 )
- May 18 : Balthasar of Thuringia , Margrave of the Wettins (* 1336 )
- June 30th : Otto II. Von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Archbishop of Bremen (* around 1364 )
Second half of the year
- 9 / 10 July : Guillaume de Menthonay , Bishop of Lausanne
- July 15 : Wilhelm von Habsburg (Wilhelm of Austria), Duke of Austria (* around 1370 )
- September 16 : Kiprian , Metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow, Hagiograph (* around 1330 )
- October 6 : Henning von Rentelen , Mayor of Lübeck (* around 1360 )
- November 6th : Pope Innocent VII (* 1336 )
- December 1 : Johanna , Duchess of Brabant and Limburg (* 1322 )
- December 7th : Peter III. von Rosenberg , Bohemian Aliger (* 1381 )
- December 25th : Heinrich III. , King of Castile and León (* 1379 )
- December 28th : Marquard von Randegg , Bishop of Minden and Constance
Exact date of death unknown
- Folkmar Allena , East Frisian chief
- Otto IV von Rietberg , Bishop of Minden
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