1401

This article is about the year 1401. For the IBM computer system, see IBM 1401.

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 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
1401 in poetry

1401 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1401 MCDI
Ab urbe condita	2154
Armenian calendar	850 ԹՎ ՊԾ
Assyrian calendar	6151
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	1323–1324
- Kali Yuga	4502–4503
Holocene calendar	11401
Igbo calendar	401–402
Iranian calendar	779–780
Islamic calendar	803–804
Japanese calendar	Ōei 8 (応永８年)
Julian calendar	1401 MCDI
Korean calendar	3734
Minguo calendar	511 before ROC 民前511年
Thai solar calendar	1943–1944

Year 1401 (MCDI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 6 – Rupert, King of Germany, is crowned King of the Romans at Cologne.
• March 2 – William Sawtrey, a Lollard, is the first person to be burned at the stake at Smithfield.
• March 13 – The Samogitians, supported by Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania, rebel against the Teutonic knights and burn two castles. Vytautas is granted increased autonomy by King Jogaila of the Poland–Lithuania union.
• March 24 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
• June
  • The English Pale in Ireland reduced to Dublin, County Kildare, County Louth, and County Meath.
  • Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the Jalayirid Empire.
• October 14 – Mahmud II, sultan of Delhi, is restored to power.

Date unknown

• The De heretico comburendo Act is passed in England, as the Archbishop of Canterbury pressures King Henry IV of England into outlawing as heretics the Lollards, followers of John Wycliffe. Evidence of being a Lollard is having a copy of Wycliffe's translation of the Bible.
• Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northern India.
• Emperor Hồ Quý Ly of Dai Ngu (now Vietnam) passes the throne to his son, Hồ Hán Thương.
• A civil war, lasting four years, breaks out in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.
• The Joseon Dynasty in present-day Korea officially enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.
• Japan re-enters into a tributary relationship with Ming Dynasty China.

Births

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

Deaths

• March – William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)
• April 8 or August 8 – Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (b. 1338)
• May 25 - Queen Maria of Sicily (b. 1363)
• October – Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland
• October 20 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
• November 25 - King Tarabya of Ava (b. 1368)
• date unknown – Andronikos Asen Zaccaria, Baron of Chalandritsa and Arcadia, Grand Constable of Achaea