1404

This article is about the year 1404. For the computer game, see Anno 1404.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1401 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407

1404 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1404 MCDIV
Ab urbe condita	2157
Armenian calendar	853 ԹՎ ՊԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6154
Balinese saka calendar	1325–1326
Bengali calendar	811
Berber calendar	2354
English Regnal year	5 Hen. 4 – 6 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1948
Burmese calendar	766
Byzantine calendar	6912–6913
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 4101 or 3894     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4102 or 3895
Coptic calendar	1120–1121
Discordian calendar	2570
Ethiopian calendar	1396–1397
Hebrew calendar	5164–5165
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1460–1461
- Shaka Samvat	1325–1326
- Kali Yuga	4504–4505
Holocene calendar	11404
Igbo calendar	404–405
Iranian calendar	782–783
Islamic calendar	806–807
Japanese calendar	Ōei 11 (応永１１年)
Javanese calendar	1318–1319
Julian calendar	1404 MCDIV
Korean calendar	3737
Minguo calendar	508 before ROC 民前508年
Nanakshahi calendar	−64
Thai solar calendar	1946–1947
Tibetan calendar	阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1530 or 1149 or 377     — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1531 or 1150 or 378

Year 1404 (MCDIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• April or May – Battle of Blackpool Sands: Local English forces defeat an attempted raid from Saint-Malo on the port of Dartmouth, Devon; the French commander, William du Chastel, is killed.
• June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English. He later begins holding parliamentary assemblies.
• October 17 – Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX, as the 204th pope.
• November 19 – St. Elizabeth's flood: A flood of the North Sea devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.

Date unknown

• Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Canary Islands.
• Stephan Tvrtko II succeeds Stefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia.
• Peace is declared between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights, after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance against Muscovy.
• A civil war, lasting two years, breaks out in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.
• Wallachia reaches its maximum extent under Mircea cel Bătrân.
• The University of Turin is founded.
• Timur is hit by a fever, while preparing to invade China.
• Centurione II Zaccaria succeeds Maria II Zaccaria, as ruler of the Principality of Achaea.
• Virupaksha Raya succeeds Harihara Raya II, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-day southern India.
• Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat, as King of Cambodia.
• Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Óg MacDermot, as King of Magh Luirg, in present-day northeast Connacht, Ireland.
• The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.

Births

• January 18 – Sir Philip Courtenay, British noble (d. 1463)
• February 14 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472)
• March 25 (bapt.) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
• June – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1451)
• July 6 – Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (d. 1473)
• July 25 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
• September 30 – Anne of Burgundy (d. 1432)
• October 14 – Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France (d. 1463)

Deaths

• April 27 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
• September 14 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
• September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (b. 1320)
• October 1 – Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
• October 15 – Marie Valois, French princess (b. 1344)
• December 13 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336)
• date unknown – Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (b. 1350)