1400

1400 (MCD) was a leap year beginning on Thursday according to the Julian calendar.

It is the year 1400 of the Common Era and anno Domini, the year 400 of the second millennium, the hundredth and last year of the fourteenth century, and the first year of the 1400s.

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife (1434), Jan van Eyck.

Events

• 21 August: Roberto III is proclaimed emperor of the Holy Roman German Empire.
• September 16: In England, Owain Glyndwr leads a rebellion against Henry IV.
• December: Henry IV of England receives on the island the visit of the Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologist, who travels through Europe in search of help against the Ottoman Turks.
• Start of Quattrocento.
• In Florence, Italy, the Medici family comes to power.
• It is estimated that there are 52 million inhabitants in Europe.
• The medieval size of the Virgen de Candelaria (patrona of the Canary Islands) appears on the coasts of Tenerife.
• The kingdom of the Congo is established in Africa.
• In Cusco (now Peru), Viracocha is proclaimed inca (rey).
• Fourth Ottoman siege to the city of Constantinople.

Art and literature

• Jean Froissart completes his Chronicles.

Births

• Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor and ceramist (f. 1482).
• Isabel de Lorena (f. 1453).
• Richard Neville, English politician (f. 1460).
• Enrique de Trastamara, noble Spanish-Argonese (f. 1445).
• Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, Italian merchant (f. 1452).
• Ausiàs March, poet and knight Valencian (f.1459)

Deaths

Ricardo II of England

Geoffrey Chaucer

• January 5: John Montacute, English politician (executed).
• January 5: Thomas Holland, English politician (executed).
• 13 January: Thomas le Despenser, English politician (executed).
• January 16: John Holland, English politician (executed).
• 14 February: Richard II, King of English. (n. 1367).
• April 28: in Pavia, Italy: Baldo degli Ubaldi, jurist.
• July 15: Empoli (Italy): Ceccoli Broglia, noble of Chieri.
• October 25: Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet.