1408

This article is about the year 1408. For the short story by Stephen King, see 1408 (short story). For the film, see 1408 (film).

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Calendar year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1405 1406 1407 1408 1409 1410 1411

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Minguo calendar

504 before ROC 民前504年
Nanakshahi calendar	−60
Thai solar calendar	1950–1951
Tibetan calendar	阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1534 or 1153 or 381     — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1535 or 1154 or 382

Year 1408 (MCDVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar

• February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: A royalist army defeats the last remnants of the Percy Rebellion.
• September – Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.
• September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland.
• December 5 – Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
• Sigismund of Hungary
  .

Date unknown

• The
  Iaşi
  is first mentioned.
• The Yongle Encyclopedia is completed.^[1]
• Gotland passes under Danish rule.
• Zheng He delivers 300 virgins from Korea to the Chinese emperor.
• Mircea cel Bătrân
  .

Births

• January 25 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
• John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435
  )
• March 25 – Agnes of Baden, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg, German noble (d. 1473)
• Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (d. 1431
  )
• April 23 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1462)
• May 22 – Annamacharya, Indian mystic saint composer (d. 1503)
• October 1 or 1409 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden (d. 1470)

Deaths

• February 19 – Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel (in battle)
• February 20 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English rebel (in battle) (b. 1341)^[2]
• April – Miran Shah, son of Timur the Lame (b. 1366)
• April 10 or April 11 – Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
• May 24 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
• shōgun (b. 1358
  )
• September 15 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (b. 1384)
• Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370
  )
• Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
• date unknown –
  Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria^[3]