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This article is about the year 1403. For the IBM printer, see
IBM 1403 .
Calendar year
Year 1403 (
MCDIII ) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
January /
February –
Treaty of Gallipoli :
Süleyman Çelebi makes wide-ranging concessions to the
Byzantine Empire and other Christian powers, in the southern Balkans.
February 7 – King
Henry IV of England marries as his second wife
Joan of Navarre , the daughter of King
Charles II of Navarre and widow of
John IV, Duke of Brittany , at
Winchester Cathedral .
March 12 – As King
Martin I of Aragon helps to end the siege by the
French of the papal palace in
Avignon ,
Antipope
Benedict XIII flees to
Aragon .
March 23 –
Stříbrná Skalice in
Central Bohemia is razed by
Sigismund of Luxembourg .
April –
Balša III succeeds his father
Đurađ II as ruler of the
Principality of Zeta (now
Montenegro ).
May 21 –
Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo , an
ambassador from the king of
Castile to
Timur , leaves Cadiz; he arrives in
Samarkand over a year later.
Before
July 21 –
Henry 'Hotspur' Percy forms an alliance with
Welsh rebel
Owain Glyndŵr .
July 21 –
Battle of Shrewsbury : King
Henry IV of England defeats a rebel army led by
"Hotspur" Percy , who is killed in the battle.
October 7 –
Battle of Modon : The
Genoese fleet under
Jean Le Maingre (
Marshal Boucicaut) is defeated by the
Republic of Venice , at
Modon in the
Peloponnese .
[1]
October – An English fleet organised by
John Hawley of Dartmouth and Thomas Norton of Bristol seizes seven French merchant vessels in the
English Channel .
November – An English revenge raid on
Brittany by Sir William Wilford captures 40 ships and causes considerable damage ashore.
[2]
December – Local English forces defeat an attempted French raid on the
Isle of Wight under
Waleran III, Count of Ligny .
[3]
Date unknown
Jan Hus begins preaching
Wycliffite ideas in
Bohemia .
In
China , the
Yongle Emperor of the
Ming dynasty
moves the capital from
Nanjing to
Beijing .
commissions the
Yongle Encyclopedia , one of the world's earliest and largest known general encyclopedias.
orders his coastal provinces to build a vast fleet of ships, with construction centered at Longjiang near
Nanjing ; the inland provinces are to provide wood and float it down the
Yangtze River .
The Temple of a City God is constructed in
Shanghai .
The
Gur-e Amir Mausoleum is built in
Samarkand by
Timur , after the death of his grandson
Muhammad Sultan , and eventually becomes the family mausoleum of the
Timurid dynasty .
Georgia makes peace with
Timur , but has to recognise him as a suzerain and pay him tribute.
The world's first
quarantine station, the
Lazzaretto Vecchio , is built in
Venice , to protect against the
Black Death .
Grand Duke
Vytautas ends his alliance with
Muscovy , and captures
Vyazma and
Smolensk .
Stefan Lazarević establishes
Belgrade , as the capital of the
Serbian Despotate .
A guild of stationers is founded in the
City of London . As the
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (the "Stationers' Company"), it continues to be a
livery company in the 21st century.
In
Ireland
Tadhg Ruadh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh, as King of
Hy-Many , in present-day counties
Galway and
Roscommon .
Maolmhordha mac Con Connacht succeeds Giolla Iosa mac Pilib, as King of
East Breifne , in present-day counties
Leitrim and
Cavan .
probable – Ououso becomes King of
Nanzan , in present-day south
Okinawa ,
Japan .
Births
January 2 –
Basilios Bessarion ,
Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (d.
1472 )
February 22 – King
Charles VII of France , monarch of the House of Valois, King of France from 1422 to his death (d.
1461 )
June 11 –
John IV, Duke of Brabant , son of Antoine (d.
1427 )
August 11 –
Ravenna Petrova, Princess of Amara Palace , daughter of William Hamilton and Anita Petrova. (d.
1423 )
September 1 –
Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria , German noble (d.
1445 )
September 25 –
Louis III of Anjou (d.
1434 )
September 29 –
Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn , German princess (d.
1449 )
date unknown
Deaths
March 8 –
Beyazid ,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1354 )
April 27 –
Maria of Bosnia , Countess of Helfenstein (b. 1335)
April –
Đurađ II Stracimirović , Serbian nobleman from the
House of Balšić in
Zeta
May 10 –
Katherine Swynford , Duchess of Lancaster, spouse of
John of Gaunt
May 12 –
William de Lode , English prior
July 21 (at the Battle of Shrewsbury)
July 23 –
Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester , English rebel (executed) (b.
1343 )
date unknown –
Vukosav Nikolić , Bosnian nobleman (in battle)
probable date –
Hajji Zayn al-Attar , Persian physician
References