1401

1401 (MCDI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1401st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 401st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 15th century, and the 2nd year of the 1400s decade. As of the start of 1401, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s  1380s  1390s  – 1400s –  1410s  1420s  1430s
Years:	1398 1399 1400 – 1401 – 1402 1403 1404

1401 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1401 MCDI
Ab urbe condita	2154
Armenian calendar	850 ԹՎ ՊԾ
Assyrian calendar	6151
Balinese saka calendar	1322–1323
Bengali calendar	808
Berber calendar	2351
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 4 – 3 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1945
Burmese calendar	763
Byzantine calendar	6909–6910
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4097 or 4037     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4098 or 4038
Coptic calendar	1117–1118
Discordian calendar	2567
Ethiopian calendar	1393–1394
Hebrew calendar	5161–5162
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1457–1458
- Shaka Samvat	1322–1323
- Kali Yuga	4501–4502
Holocene calendar	11401
Igbo calendar	401–402
Iranian calendar	779–780
Islamic calendar	803–804
Japanese calendar	Ōei 8 (応永８年)
Javanese calendar	1315–1316
Julian calendar	1401 MCDI
Korean calendar	3734
Minguo calendar	511 before ROC 民前511年
Nanakshahi calendar	−67
Thai solar calendar	1943–1944
Tibetan calendar	阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 1527 or 1146 or 374     — to — 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1528 or 1147 or 375

Events of 1401

• Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.
• Passing of the De heretico comburendo Act in England – the Archbishop of Canterbury pressures King Henry IV of England into outlawing as heretics anyone owning an English translation of the Bible.
• Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northern India.
• Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania is granted increased autonomy by King Jogaila of the Poland-Lithuania union.
• Emperor Ho Quy Ly of Dai Ngu (now Vietnam) passes the throne to his son, Thai Thuong Hoang.
• A civil war, lasting four years, breaks out in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.
• The Joseon Dynasty in the present-day Korea officially enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
• Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.

1401 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1401 MCDI
Ab urbe condita	2154
Armenian calendar	850 ԹՎ ՊԾ
Assyrian calendar	6151
Balinese saka calendar	1322–1323
Bengali calendar	808
Berber calendar	2351
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 4 – 3 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1945
Burmese calendar	763
Byzantine calendar	6909–6910
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4097 or 4037     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4098 or 4038
Coptic calendar	1117–1118
Discordian calendar	2567
Ethiopian calendar	1393–1394
Hebrew calendar	5161–5162
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1457–1458
- Shaka Samvat	1322–1323
- Kali Yuga	4501–4502
Holocene calendar	11401
Igbo calendar	401–402
Iranian calendar	779–780
Islamic calendar	803–804
Japanese calendar	Ōei 8 (応永８年)
Javanese calendar	1315–1316
Julian calendar	1401 MCDI
Korean calendar	3734
Minguo calendar	511 before ROC 民前511年
Nanakshahi calendar	−67
Thai solar calendar	1943–1944
Tibetan calendar	阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 1527 or 1146 or 374     — to — 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1528 or 1147 or 375

Births

• May 12 – Emperor Shoko of Japan (died 1428)
• July 23 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1466)
• October 27 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry VI of England (died 1437)
• November 26 – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (died 1418)
• December 21 – Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (died 1428)
• Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (died 1456)
• Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (died 1436)
• probable
  • Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (died 1464)

Deaths

• March – William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)
• April 8 (or August 8) Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (born 1338)
• October 20 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
• date unknown
  • Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland