1416 Explained

Year 1416 (MCDXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January - December

• January 27  - The Republic of Ragusa is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.
• May 29  - Battle of Gallipoli: Venetian admiral Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.
• May 30  - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.

Date unknown

• The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge (the longest arch bridge in the world at the time) is destroyed.
• The Hussite Bible is completed by Tamás Pécsi and Bálint Újlaki.

Births

• February 26  - Christopher of Bavaria (d. 1448)
• March 27  - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
• March 28  - Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489)
• May 25  - Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace (d. 1480)
• October 26  - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490)
• date unknown
  • Benedetto Cotrugli, Ragusan/Croatian merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist (d. 1469)
  • Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (d. 1470)
  • Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
  • Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1469)
• probable  - Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess and countess (d. 1472)

Deaths

• February 2  - Racek Kobyla of Dvorce, Bohemian Hetman and Burgrave.
• February 27  - Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363)
• April 2  - King Ferdinand I of Aragon (b. 1379)^[1]
• May 21  - Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (b. c. 1381)
• May 30  - Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)
• June 15  - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
• September 4  - John I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count^[2]
• October 1  - Yaqub Spata, lord of Arta
• October 14  - Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• December 29  - Mathew Swetenham, bowbearer of Henry IV
• date unknown  - The Limbourg brothers, painters of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
• probable
  • Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh prince and leader of the Welsh Revolt
  • Julian of Norwich, English anchoress, mystic and author

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ferdinand I king of Aragon . Encyclopedia Britannica . 31 March 2019 . en.
2. Book: Dek, A.W.E. . 1970 . Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau . nl . Zaltbommel . Europese Bibliotheek . 66 .