1417

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1380s  1390s  1400s  – 1410s –  1420s  1430s  1440s
Years:	1414 1415 1416 – 1417 – 1418 1419 1420

1417 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
1417 in poetry

1417 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1417 MCDXVII
Ab urbe condita	2170
Armenian calendar	866 ԹՎ ՊԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6167
Bengali calendar	824
Berber calendar	2367
English Regnal year	4 Hen. 5 – 5 Hen. 5
Buddhist calendar	1961
Burmese calendar	779
Byzantine calendar	6925–6926
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4113 or 4053     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4114 or 4054
Coptic calendar	1133–1134
Discordian calendar	2583
Ethiopian calendar	1409–1410
Hebrew calendar	5177–5178
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1473–1474
- Shaka Samvat	1339–1340
- Kali Yuga	4518–4519
Holocene calendar	11417
Igbo calendar	417–418
Iranian calendar	795–796
Islamic calendar	819–820
Japanese calendar	Ōei 24 (応永２４年)
Julian calendar	1417 MCDXVII
Korean calendar	3750
Minguo calendar	495 before ROC 民前495年
Thai solar calendar	1959–1960

Year 1417 (MCDXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• June 24 – The Isle of Man holds the first known Tynwald Day; the annual meeting of its parliament (Tynwald) which has continued every year until the present.
• July 27 – Avignon Pope Benedict XIII is deposed, bringing to an end the Great Western Schism.
• August 12 – King Henry V of England begins using English in correspondence (back to England from France whilst on campaign), marking the beginning of this king's continuous usage of English in prose, and the beginning of the restoration of English as an official language for the first time since the Norman Conquest, some 350 years earlier.
• November 11 – Pope Martin V succeeds Pope Gregory XII (who abdicated in 1415) as the 206th pope.

Date unknown

• The use of street lighting is first recorded in London, when Sir Henry Barton, the mayor, orders lanterns with lights to be hung out on the winter evenings between Hallowtide and Candlemas.

Births

• February 23
  • Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
  • Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (1450–1479) (d. 1479)
• May 25 – Catherine of Cleves, Duchess of Guelders by marriage (d. 1479)
• June 19 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (d. 1468)
• November 8 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1458–1480) (d. 1480)
• November 19 – Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern from 1459 until 1480 (d. 1480)
• November 23 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
• date unknown
  • Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, regent of Sweden 1457 and 1465–1466, archbishop of Uppsala 1448–1467
  • Nicholas of Flüe, Swiss hermit and saint (d. 1487)

Deaths

• January – Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (b. 1357)
• March 5 – Manuel III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1364)
• April 29 – Louis II of Naples (b. 1377)
• September 4 – Robert Hallam, English Catholic bishop
• September 16 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
• October 18 – Pope Gregory XII
• November 17 – Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (b. 1288)
• December 14 – John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader
• probable – Huitzilíhuitl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan

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