1404

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s  1380s  1390s  – 1400s –  1410s  1420s  1430s
Years:	1401 1402 1403 – 1404 – 1405 1406 1407

1404 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1404 (MCDIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1404

• June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English. He later begins holding parliamentary assemblies.
• October 17 – Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX as the 204th pope.
• November 19 – St. Elizabeth's flood devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.
• Stefan Tvrtko II succeeds Stefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia.
• Peace is declared between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance against Muscovy.
• The University of Turin is founded.
• Timur is hit by a fever while preparing to invade China.
• Centurione II Zaccaria succeeds Maria II Zaccaria as ruler of the Principality of Achaea.
• Virupaksha Raya succeeds Harihara Raya II as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-day southern India.
• Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat as King of Cambodia.
• Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Og MacDermot as King of Moylurg in present-day north-east Connacht, Ireland.
• The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.

1404 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1404 MCDIV
Ab urbe condita	2157
Armenian calendar	853 ԹՎ ՊԾԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-440 – -439
Bengali calendar	811
Berber calendar	2354
Buddhist calendar	1948
Burmese calendar	766
Byzantine calendar	6912 – 6913
Chinese calendar	癸未年閏十一月十九日 (4040/4100-intercalary 11-19) — to — 甲申年十一月廿九日 (4041/4101-11-29)
Coptic calendar	1120 – 1121
Ethiopian calendar	1396 – 1397
Hebrew calendar	5164 – 5165
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1460 – 1461
- Shaka Samvat	1326 – 1327
- Kali Yuga	4505 – 4506
Holocene calendar	11404
Iranian calendar	782 – 783
Islamic calendar	806 – 807
Japanese calendar	Ōei 11 (応永11年)
Korean calendar	3737
Thai solar calendar	1947

Births

• February 9 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
• February 14 – Leone Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472)
• March 25 – (baptism) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
• June – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1451)
• July 25 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
• September 10 – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat (d. 1440)
• October 14 – Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France (d. 1463)
• date unknown
  • Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (d. 1473)

Deaths

• April 27 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
• September 14 – Duke Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
• September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (b. 1320)
• October 1 – Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
• October 15 – Marie Valois, French princess (b. 1344)
• December 13 – Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
• date unknown – Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (b. 1350)