1408

Year 1408 (MCDVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

This article is about the year 1408. For the short story by Stephen King, see 1408 (short story). For the film, see 1408 (film).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1405 1406 1407 1408 1409 1410 1411

1408 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1408 MCDVIII
Ab urbe condita	2161
Armenian calendar	857 ԹՎ ՊԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6158
Balinese saka calendar	1329–1330
Bengali calendar	815
Berber calendar	2358
English Regnal year	9 Hen. 4 – 10 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1952
Burmese calendar	770
Byzantine calendar	6916–6917
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4105 or 3898     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4106 or 3899
Coptic calendar	1124–1125
Discordian calendar	2574
Ethiopian calendar	1400–1401
Hebrew calendar	5168–5169
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1464–1465
- Shaka Samvat	1329–1330
- Kali Yuga	4508–4509
Holocene calendar	11408
Igbo calendar	408–409
Iranian calendar	786–787
Islamic calendar	810–811
Japanese calendar	Ōei 15 (応永１５年)
Javanese calendar	1322–1323
Julian calendar	1408 MCDVIII
Korean calendar	3741
Minguo calendar	504 before ROC 民前504年
Nanakshahi calendar	−60
Thai solar calendar	1950–1951
Tibetan calendar	阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1534 or 1153 or 381     — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1535 or 1154 or 382

Events

January–December

• February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: A royalist army defeats the last remnants of the Percy Rebellion.
• September – Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.
• September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland.
• December 5 – Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
• December 13 – The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.

Date unknown

• The Moldavian town of Iaşi is first mentioned.
• The Yongle Encyclopedia is completed.^[1]
• Gotland passes under Danish rule.
• Zheng He delivers 300 virgins from Korea to the Chinese emperor.
• Mihail I becomes co-ruler of Wallachia, with his father Mircea cel Bătrân.

Births

• January 25 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
• February 14 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
• March 25 – Agnes of Baden, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg, German noble (d. 1473)
• April 8 – Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (d. 1431)
• April 23 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1462)
• May 22 – Annamacharya, Indian mystic saint composer (d. 1503)
• October 1 or 1409 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden (d. 1470)

Deaths

• February 19 – Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel (in battle)
• February 20 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English rebel (in battle) (b. 1341)^[2]
• April – Miran Shah, son of Timur the Lame (b. 1366)
• April 10 or April 11 – Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
• May 24 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
• May 31 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1358)
• September 15 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (b. 1384)
• September 22 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)
• December 4 – Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans by marriage to Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
• date unknown – Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria^[3]

References

1. "Yongle dadian | Chinese encyclopaedia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
2. "Henry Percy, 1st earl of Northumberland | Lancastrian, Battle of Towton, Yorkist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
3. Gabra, Gawdat; Takla, Hany N. (2017). Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta. Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9789774167775.