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| 1418 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1418 MCDXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2171 |
| Armenian calendar | 867 ԹՎ ՊԿԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6168 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1339–1340 |
| Bengali calendar | 824–825 |
| Berber calendar | 2368 |
| English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 5 – 6 Hen. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1962 |
| Burmese calendar | 780 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6926–6927 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4115 or 3908 — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4116 or 3909 |
| Coptic calendar | 1134–1135 |
| Discordian calendar | 2584 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1410–1411 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5178–5179 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1474–1475 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1339–1340 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4518–4519 |
| Holocene calendar | 11418 |
| Igbo calendar | 418–419 |
| Iranian calendar | 796–797 |
| Islamic calendar | 820–821 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 25 (応永２５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1332–1333 |
| Julian calendar | 1418 MCDXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3751 |
| Minguo calendar | 494 before ROC 民前494年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −50 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1960–1961 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1544 or 1163 or 391 — to — 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1545 or 1164 or 392 |
Year 1418 (MCDXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–March
[edit]- January 31 – Mircea I, Prince of Wallachia (now part of southern Romania), dies after a reign of 21 years and is succeeded by his son, Mihail I.[1]
- February 7 – The Lam Sơn uprising in Chinese-occupied Vietnam beginsduring the Tết holiday as a group of 18 men led by Lê Lợi begin a nine year rebellion against Ming dynasty China.[2]
- February 20 – At Srinagar, in what is now India, Zayn al-Abidin, already the vizier (Wazir) of the Kashmir Sultanate, is crowned as the new Sultan after he overthrows his older brother, the Sultan Ali Shah Miri.[3]
- March 21 – The Concordats of Constance are approved by the Council of Constance for signing by the various parties.[4]
- March 24 – Švitrigaila of Lithuania, son of the late Grand Duke Algirdas, is freed after nine years imprisonment at Lithuania's Kremenets Castle after a group of 500 soldiers, led by Dashko Ostrogski, storm the castle.[5]
April–June
[edit]- April 15 – The delegates from France and Germany sign the Concordats.[6].
- April 22 – The Council of Constance ends.[7]
- May 13 – Spain approves and signs the Concordats of Constance.[6]
- May 29 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War:John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, captures Paris, forcing King Charles VI to flee from the violence of John's partisans.[8]
- June 3 – Because of the rebellion of his son, Grand Prince Yangnyeong (Yi Che), King Taejong of Korea permanently disowns Yangnyeong as heir to the throne.[9]
- June 12 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, is assassinated by the Burgundian followers of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and a massacre of suspected Armagnacs begins, with more than 1,000 and perhaps as many as 5,000 civilians killed.[10]
July–December
[edit]- July 8 – Chungnyeong is named by his father, King Taejong of Korea, as the new heir to the throne as Grand Prince, replacing Yangnyeong.[11]
- July 12 – England approves and signs the Concordats of Constance.[6]
- July 29 – The Army of England, led by King Henry V, begins the siege of Rouen, the capital of Normandy in France. The siege lasts almost six months before the Burgundian French defenders surrender[12]
- August 10 – King Taejong, ruler of the kingdom of Joseon that encompasses most of Korea, agrees to abdicate his throne in order for his son Prince Yi Do to become the new monarch. Taejong then becomes the King Emeritus (Sangwang).
- September 18 – Prince Yi Do, son of Korea's King Emeritus Taejong, is enthroned as King Sejong, and will make major reforms during his reign of more than 30 years.[13][14]
Date unknown
[edit]- João Gonçalves Zarco leads one of the first Portuguese expeditions to the Madeira Islands.
Births
[edit]- January 9 – Juan Ramón Folch III de Cardona, Aragonese admiral (d. 1485)
- March 14 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1429–1492) (d. 1492)
- April 20 – Earl David of Rookwood
- May 16 – John II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458 (d. 1458)
- August 5 – Malatesta Novello, Italian condottiero (d. 1465)
- September 24 – Anne of Cyprus, Italian noble (d. 1462)
- November 2 – Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder famous for his diary (diario) (d. 1504)
- November 20 – Robert de Morley, 6th Baron Morley, Lord of Morley Saint Botolph (d. 1442)
- December 8 – Queen Jeonghui, Queen consort of Korea (d. 1483)
- December 12 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
- date unknown – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1457)
- Isotta Nogarola, Italian writer and intellectual (d. 1466)
Deaths
[edit]- January 31 – Mircea I of Wallachia, ruler of Wallachia (b. 1355)
- March 22 – Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
- June 2 – Katherine of Lancaster, queen of Henry III of Castile
- June 12 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
- November 25 – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (b. 1401)
- December 11 – Louis of Piedmont (b. 1364)
- date unknown
- Ixtlilxochitl I, ruler of the Mesoamerican city-state of Texcoco, and ally of the Aztecs.[15]
- Foelke Kampana, Frisian lady and regent (b. 1355)
References
[edit]- ^ Treptow, Kurt W. (2000). Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula. The Center of Romanian Studies. p. 37. ISBN 973-98392-2-3.
- ^ Anderson, James A. (2020), "The Ming invasion of Vietnam, 1407–1427", in Kang, David C.; Haggard, Stephan (eds.), East Asia in the World: Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 92, ISBN 978-1-108-47987-5
- ^ Hasan, Mohibbul (2005) [first published 1959], Kashmir Under the Sultans (Reprinted ed.), Delhi: Aakar Books, p. 70, ISBN 978-81-87879-49-7
- ^ Mandell Creighton, A History of the Papcy during the Period of the Reformation, Vol. I: The Great Schism—The Council of Constance, 1378–1418 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1882), pp. 406–407.
- ^ Matusas, Jonas (1991). Švitrigaila Lietuvos didysis kunigaikštis (Svitrigaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania) (2nd ed.). Vilnius: Mintis. p. 166. ISBN 5-417-00473-1.
- ^ a b c Giovanni Mercati, ed., Raccolta di concordati su materie ecclesiastiche tra la Santa Sede e le autorità civili, 1098–1914 (Vatican City, 1954), vol. I, pp. 144–168
- ^ Reich, Emil (1915). Select Documents Illustrating Mediæval and Modern History (in French). P.S. King & Son. pp. 197–198.
- ^ Vaughan, Richard (2005). John the Fearless. The Dukes of Burgundy. Vol. 2 (reprinted new ed.). Boydell Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0851159164.
- ^ Park, Hong-Kyu (December 22, 2006). "King Taejong as a statesman: From power to authority". Korea Journal. 46 (4). Retrieved October 28, 2021.
- ^ Sizer, Michael (2007). "The Calamity of Violence: Reading the Paris Massacres of 1418". Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. 35. Michigan Publishing.
- ^ Hong Yi-Seop, Sejong the Great (Seoul: Sejong the Great Memorial Society, 2011), p.18
- ^ Wagner, J. A. (2006). Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 322. ISBN 0-313-32736-X. OCLC 65205034.
- ^ "The 4th king of Joseon (reign: 1418-1450)", in Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (The Academy of Korean Studies, 2014)
- ^ Hong Yi-Seop, Sejong the Great (Seoul: Sejong the Great Memorial Society, 2011), p.19
- ^ . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. III. 1900. p. 371.