1402
Years:
1399 1400 1401 - 1402 - 1403 1404 1405Decades:
1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430sCenturies:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century
Events
- June 26 - Battle of Casalecchio - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Duke of Milan, crushes the forces of Bologna, but he dies later that year.
- September 14 - Battle of Homildon Hill. Northern English nobles led by Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy, defeat a Scottish raiding army under the Earl of Douglas
- Battle of Angora - Tamerlane defeats the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, who is captured. Mehmed I succeeds Bayezid as Sultan.
Births
- November 23 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (died 1468)
- Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (died 1460)
Deaths
- July 13 - Jianwen Emperor of China (born 1377)
- August 1 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England (born 1341)
- September 3 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (born 1351)
- October 24 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (b. 1378)
- Joćo Anes, Archbishop of Lisbon
- Mary of Sicily (born 1370)