1406

This page relates to the year 1406 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Beginning of the Chinese domination with the Vietnam (until in 1428). The Chinese armies of the Ming invade the Dai-Vietnamese soldier and drive out the dynasty of Ho (fine in 1413).

Début of the reign in India of Deva Striped Ier, emperor of the Vijayanagar (fine in 1422). Anxious on the new military superiority of the Bahmanides, it decides to reform its army by increasing the number of the archers and the riders. It makes build a mosque in the capital and the Moslems represent a quarter of the soldiers of his army.

April 4th: Beginning of the reign of Jacques I {{er}} Stuart, king of Scotland (until in 1437). Jacques Ier, going to France, is made prisoner by the English until in 1424.
June 29th: Charles of Orleans, wife Isabelle de Valois.
July 15th: Died of Guillaume de Habsbourg.

September 11th: The Parlement of Paris abolishes the apostolic taxes.
October 9th: The City-State of Pisa is overcome by Florence.
November: Padoue is taken by Venice.
November 29th: Capitulation of the castle of Heavy in Bigorre, after fifty years of possession by the king d' Angleterre. Besieged during one year and half by the seneshals of Toulouse and Carcassonne, the place goes fault of vivres.

November 30th: Beginning of the Pontificate of Gregoire XII (born Angelo Correr, with Venice in 1325), pope of 1406 with 1415).
December 25th:

Beginning of the reign of Jean II (1405 - 1454), king of León and Castille.
Regency of Ferdinand the Juste, wire of Jean Ier, in Castille during the minority of Jean II.

the duke of Brittany creates “convoys of the sea” in charge of the protection of the coasts.
Conflit enters the king of England and the Parlement: the authority of Henri IV of England is some weakened.
Jerome of Prague request confiscation of the goods of the Church.

Robert Campin becomes Master painter with Tournai.
the First hagiographic compilation attested in Russia. It is carried out by a former monk of the Monastère of the Catacombs, Arsène, become bishop of Tver.

Translation in Latin of the geography of Ptolémée (printed with Rome in 1478). The work shows the rotundity of the ground. By an erroneous calculation, it places the continent of Asia at the longitude of the Mexico. It places at the south of the Ecuador the enormous mass of a continent which would join the Africa and the Asia.

March 17th: Abd Al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldûn, historian, sociologist and Arab philosopher, with the Cairo. (° 1332).
April 4th: Robert III of Scotland, king d' Écosse. (° 1337).
May 4th: Coluccio Salutati, humanistic Florentin (born in 1331).
July 6th: Raymond II of Montaut, known as of Castillon , lord of Mussidan.
November 1st: Jeanne of the Brabant: the son of Marguerite of Flanders of the house of Valois-Burgundy, Antoine of Burgundy inherits.

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