1409

This article is about the year 1409. For the number, see 1409 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s  1380s  1390s  – 1400s –  1410s  1420s  1430s
Years:	1406 1407 1408 – 1409 – 1410 1411 1412

1409 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
1409 in poetry

1409 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1409 MCDIX
Ab urbe condita	2162
Armenian calendar	858 ԹՎ ՊԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	6159
Bengali calendar	816
Berber calendar	2359
English Regnal year	10 Hen. 4 – 11 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1953
Burmese calendar	771
Byzantine calendar	6917–6918
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4105 or 4045     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4106 or 4046
Coptic calendar	1125–1126
Discordian calendar	2575
Ethiopian calendar	1401–1402
Hebrew calendar	5169–5170
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1465–1466
- Shaka Samvat	1331–1332
- Kali Yuga	4510–4511
Holocene calendar	11409
Igbo calendar	409–410
Iranian calendar	787–788
Islamic calendar	811–812
Japanese calendar	Ōei 16 (応永１６年)
Julian calendar	1409 MCDIX
Korean calendar	3742
Minguo calendar	503 before ROC 民前503年
Thai solar calendar	1951–1952

Year 1409 (MCDIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 1 – The Welsh surrender Harlech Castle to the English.
• March 25 – The Council of Pisa opens. On June 5 it deposes Pope Gregory XII and Antipope Benedict XIII and on June 26 crowns Petros Philargos as Pope Alexander V; he is subsequently regarded as an antipope.
• July – Martin I of Aragon succeeds his own son as King of Sicily.
• August 7 – Council of Pisa closes.
• December 2 – The University of Leipzig opens.
• December 9 – Louis II of Anjou founds the University of Aix.

Date unknown

• Ulugh Beg becomes governor of Samarkand.
• The Republic of Venice buys the port of Zadar from Hungary.
• Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen of the Teutonic Knights guarantees peace with the Kalmar Union of Scandinavia by selling the Baltic Sea island of Gotland to Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
• Cheng Ho (or Zheng He), admiral of the Ming empire fleet, deposes the king of Sri Lanka.

Births

• January 16 – René of Anjou (d. 1480)
• February 28 – Elisabeth of Bohemia (d. 1442)
• October 1 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden 1448–1457, 1464–1465 and 1467–1470 (possible date; his birth may also have been in 1408; d. 1470)
• October 21 – Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1473)
• date unknown – Bernardo Rossellino, Florentine sculptor and architect

Deaths

• May 13 – Jan_of_Tarnów, Polish nobleman
• May 22 – Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)
• July 25 – King Martin I of Sicily (b. 1374)
• date unknown – Thomas Merke, English bishop
• probable – Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (b. 1376)