1406

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s 1380s 1390s – 1400s – 1410s 1420s 1430s
Years:	1403 1404 1405 – 1406 – 1407 1408 1409

1406 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1406 (MCDVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1406

November 30 – Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII as the 205th pope.
December 25 – John II becomes King of Castile.
Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing during the Chinese Ming Dynasty.
Richard Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London.
Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England.
James I becomes King of Scotland, after having been captured by Henry IV of England.
Richard, Earl of Cambridge, marries Anne Mortimer.
Pisa is subjugated by Florence.

September 26 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
date unknown – Ulrich II of Celje (d. 1456)
Lorenzo Valla, humanist

January 6 – Roger Walden, English bishop
March 19 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
April 4 – King Robert III of Scotland
May 4 – Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence (b. 1331)
July 15 – Duke William of Austria
September 16 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow
November 6 – Pope Innocent VII
date unknown
- King Henry III of Castile (b. 1379)
- Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (b. 1322)
- John de Sutton V (b. 1380)
probable – Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde