1416

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s
Years:	1413 1414 1415 1416 1417 1418 1419

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Minguo calendar

496 before ROC 民前496年
Nanakshahi calendar	−52
Thai solar calendar	1958–1959
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1542 or 1161 or 389     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1543 or 1162 or 390

Year 1416 (MCDXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar

• January 27 – The Republic of Ragusa is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.
• May 29 – Battle of Gallipoli: Venetian admiral Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.
• Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague
  as a heretic.

• The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge (the longest arch bridge in the world at the time) is destroyed.
• The Hussite Bible is completed by Tamás Pécsi and Bálint Újlaki.

Births

• February 26 – Christopher of Bavaria (d. 1448)
• March 27 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
• March 28 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489)
• Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace (d. 1480
  )
• October 26 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490)
• date unknown
  • Benedetto Cotrugli, Ragusan/Croatian merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist (d. 1469)
  • Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (d. 1470)
  • Order of the Minims (d. 1507
    )
  • Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1469)
• probable – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess and countess (d. 1472)

Deaths

• February 2 – Racek Kobyla of Dvorce, Bohemian Hetman and Burgrave.
• Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363
  )
• April 2 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (b. 1379)^[1]
• Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (b. c. 1381
  )
• May 30 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)
• June 15 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
• September 4 – John I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count^[2]
• October 1 – Yaqub Spata, lord of Arta
• October 14 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• December 29 – Mathew Swetenham, bowbearer of Henry IV
• date unknown – The Limbourg brothers, painters of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
• probable
  • Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh prince and leader of the Welsh Revolt
  • Julian of Norwich, English anchoress, mystic and author

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