1408

This page relates to the year 1408 Calendrier Julien.

Events

February 17th, Arras: The chancellery of Burgundy lance a proclamation showing that the France could be saved only by the murder of the duke Louis of Orleans.
February 25th: Jean without Peur returns triumphantly in Paris.
March 8th: A doctor in Sorbonne, Jean Petit, justifies hypocriquement the murder of Louis of Orleans, arranged with the row of the tyrants and the followers in sorcery! Jean without Fear, duke of Burgundy, can then acknowledge its crime quietly. The following day, the king signs letters of grace for the duke. The war between Armagnacs (left noble directed by the count Armagnac) and Bourguignons (popular party, very extremely in the cities) starts.

May 11th: With Prague, a professor of the university, Mathias de Knin, is shown to propagate the heresy of John Wyclif. It draws some with abjuration.
June 16th: The archbishop of Prague orders that those which have works of Wyclif deliver them immediately to the authorities. Jean Hus resigns his functions of synodal preacher.
June: Convocation of the Council of Pisa to solve the Great Schism of Occident.

September 23rd: The duke of Burgundy Jean '' without Peur '' crushes the Liégeois revolted with Othée following their revolt against Jean III of Bavaria (1375 - 1425), Prince-bishop of Liege of 1390 with 1418.
December 13rd: Sigismond of Hungary organizes the Ordre of the Dragon, gathering around him twenty-four of the principal barons, as Garai, Cillei, the Serb despot Stefan Lazarević and the financier Florentin Filippo Scolari, known as Pipo Ozorai. Sigismond proclaims primus inter pares . The nobility remains thus the essential component of the life of the kingdom. New families appear, the such Perenyi, the Széchenyi, the Bethlen and the Hunyadi, which control during the many absences of the king.

the king of Naples Ladislas Magnanime, which tries to conquer Italy, takes Rome.
the island of Gotland passes under Danish sovereignty (end in 1645).
First mention of the borough of Târgoviste in Valachie, which will become the capital.
the Turks devastate the area of Metlika in Slovenia.

the Idi qu (Yédigué), chief of the horde Nogaï, requires the tribute of the Russians, sets fire to Nijni-Novgorod and Goradetz, walk towards Moscow then is withdrawn under vague promises of obedience.
December: Peace Russo-Lithuanian or peace of Ugra. Vassili Ier of Moscow gets along with Vitovt of Lithuania to fix the border on the Ougra. Many a prince prerogatives of the Western provinces transfer their allegiance from the large-duke of Lithuania to the large-prince of Moscow, because of his new power.

With the Japan, government of the Shogun Yoshimochi Ashikaga (fine in 1428). He hates his father Yoshimitsu Ashikaga.

Kara Yusuf, of return of Egypt, overcomes Miran Shah, wire alienated of Tamerlan and governor of Azerbaïdjan, and restores the kingdom of the Kara Koyunlu. It conquers the Arménie and his/her Iskandar brother is proclaimed by it sovereign under the name of Chah I Armen.

Nanni Di Banco begins the Four Saints Crowned ( Quatro Santi Coronati ) in the vault Orsanmichele with Florence in Italy.
the painter Gentile da Fabriano goes to Venice and carries out frescos, now disappeared, for the ducal palate.
the Book of the body of Policie , treated manners of Christine de Pisan.

the Beautiful Hours (or Hours of Ailly ) realized for Philippe Bold the by the Brothers of Limbourg.

has Florence, Jean de Médicis (1360-1429) increases considerably the assets of its family. Warned tradesman, it actively directs a company which counts two subsidiary companies in 1408 (Venice and Rome) and eight of more with its apogee (Naples, Pisa, Milan, Geneva, Lyon, Avignon, Bruges and London). In addition to the workshops of weaving of wool and silk, it develops its banking while agreeing of enormous loans to the sovereigns and to the pope (of which Jean XXII). At the end of its life, 90% of its incomes come from the bank and 10% from the trade, and the subsidiary companies took an importance quite higher than that of the head office.

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