1406

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s  1380s  1390s  – 1400s –  1410s  1420s  1430s
Years:	1403 1404 1405 – 1406 – 1407 1408 1409

1406 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
1406 in poetry

1406 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1406 MCDVI
Ab urbe condita	2159
Armenian calendar	855 ԹՎ ՊԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6156
Bengali calendar	813
Berber calendar	2356
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 4 – 8 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1950
Burmese calendar	768
Byzantine calendar	6914–6915
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4102 or 4042     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4103 or 4043
Coptic calendar	1122–1123
Discordian calendar	2572
Ethiopian calendar	1398–1399
Hebrew calendar	5166–5167
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1462–1463
- Shaka Samvat	1328–1329
- Kali Yuga	4507–4508
Holocene calendar	11406
Igbo calendar	406–407
Iranian calendar	784–785
Islamic calendar	808–809
Japanese calendar	Ōei 13 (応永１３年)
Julian calendar	1406 MCDVI
Korean calendar	3739
Minguo calendar	506 before ROC 民前506年
Thai solar calendar	1948–1949

Year 1406 (MCDVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• April 4 – James I becomes King of Scotland, after having been captured by Henry IV of England.
• October 13 – Richard Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London for a second full term. He holds this office simultaneously with that of Mayor of the Calais Staple.
• October 26 – Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England.
• November 30 – Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII as the 205th pope.
• December 25 – John II becomes King of Castile.

Date unknown

• Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing during the Chinese Ming dynasty.
• Pisa is subjugated by Florence.

Births

• January 1 – Margaret, Countess of Vertus, French countess (d. 1466)
• January 28 – Guy XIV de Laval, French noble (d. 1486)
• July 11 – William, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg (1428-1441) (d. 1482)
• September 26 – Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
• December 19 – Martin of Aragon, Aragon infante (d. 1407)
• date unknown
  • Ulrich II, Count of Celje (d. 1456)
  • John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (d. 1464)
  • c. Lorenzo Valla, humanist (d. 1457)

Deaths

• January 6 – Roger Walden, English bishop
• March 19 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
• April 4 – King Robert III of Scotland
• May 4 – Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence (b. 1331)
• July 15 – William, Duke of Austria
• August 28 – John de Sutton V (b. 1380)
• September 16 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow
• November 1 – Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (b. 1322)
• November 6 – Pope Innocent VII
• December 25 – King Henry III of Castile (b. 1379)
• probable – Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde

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