1406

Years: 1403 1404 1405 - 1406 - 1407 1408 1409

Decades: 1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• Construction of Forbidden City begins in Beijing.
• Richard Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London.
• December 25 - John II becomes King of Castile.
• Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England.
• James I becomes King of Scotland, after having been captured by Henry IV of England.
• Richard, Earl of Cambridge, marries Anne Mortimer.
• Gregory XII succeeds Innocent VII as Pope.
• Pisa is subjugated by Florence.

Births

• September 26 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
• Ulrich III of Celje (died 1456)
• Agostino Steuco, Italian scholar and divine (died 1519)

Deaths

• January 6 - Roger Walden, English bishop
• March 19 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian (born 1332)
• April 4 - King Robert III of Scotland
• July 15 - Duke William of Austria
• September 16 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow
• November 6 - Pope Innocent VII
• King Henry III of Castile (born 1379)
• Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence (born 1331)
• John de Sutton V (born 1380)
• Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde