1421

This article is about the year 1421. For the book by Gavin Menzies, see

1421: The Year China Discovered the World

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Calendar year

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Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s
Years:	1418 1419 1420 1421 1422 1423 1424

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1421 in poetry
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1421 in various

Minguo calendar

491 before ROC 民前491年
Nanakshahi calendar	−47
Thai solar calendar	1963–1964
Tibetan calendar	阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1547 or 1166 or 394     — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1548 or 1167 or 395

Year 1421 (MCDXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar

• Ming Dynasty
  , shifts the Ming capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
• March 3 – Zheng He receives an imperial order from the Yongle Emperor to bring imperial letters, silk products, and other gifts to various rulers of countries around the Indian Ocean.
• Thomas, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Henry V of England, in Normandy.^[1]
• May 26 – Mehmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son, Murad II.
• November 17–19 – St. Elizabeth's flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded, due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10,000 people, and the course of the Meuse is changed.

Date unknown

• John III of Dampierre,
  Marquis of Namur, sells his estates to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
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• The first patent is issued by the Republic of Florence.^[2]
• Henry the Navigator cross Cape Non, going as far as Cape Bojador
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• Traditional date – Larabanga Mosque is founded, in modern-day northern Ghana.

Births

• March 9 – Francesco Sassetti, Italian banker (d. 1490)
• May 29 – Charles, Prince of Viana (d. 1461)
• June 3 – Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1463)
• July 25 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
• August 1 – Thomas Dutton, English knight (d. 1459)
• October 10 – John Paston, English politician (d. 1466)
• December 6 – King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)^[3]
• date unknown – Sōgi, Japanese poet and Buddhist priest (d. 1502)

Deaths

• January 10 – Niccolò I Trinci, lord of Foligno (assassinated)
• January 15 – Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, queen consort of Armenia and Cyprus (born 1353)
• Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (born 1388)^[1]
• John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (born 1385
  )
• May – Balša III, ruler of Zeta
• Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389
  )
• Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (b. 1366
  )