1404

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s  1380s  1390s  – 1400s –  1410s  1420s  1430s
Years:	1401 1402 1403 – 1404 – 1405 1406 1407

1404 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1404 in poetry

1404 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1404 MCDIV
Ab urbe condita	2157
Armenian calendar	853 ԹՎ ՊԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6154
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) 4100 or 4040     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4101 or 4041
Coptic calendar	1120–1121
Discordian calendar	2570
Ethiopian calendar	1396–1397
Hebrew calendar	5164–5165
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1460–1461
- Shaka Samvat	1326–1327
- Kali Yuga	4505–4506
Holocene calendar	11404
Igbo calendar	404–405
Iranian calendar	782–783
Islamic calendar	806–807
Japanese calendar	Ōei 11 (応永１１年)
Julian calendar	1404 MCDIV
Korean calendar	3737
Minguo calendar	508 before ROC 民前508年
Thai solar calendar	1946–1947

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

Events

January–December

• 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 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.
• 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 Og MacDermot as King of Magh Luirg in present-day north-east Connacht, Ireland.
• The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.

Births

• February 9 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
• February 18 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472))
• March 25 – (baptism) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
• June – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1451)
• July 25 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
• September 10 – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat (d. 1440)
• October 14 – Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France (d. 1463)
• date unknown – Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (d. 1473)

Deaths

• April 27 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
• September 14 – Duke Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
• September 23 – Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (b. 1350)
• 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, Count of Holland (b. 1336)