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:''This article is about the year. For the short story by Stephen King, see ''1408 (short story)''; for the film, see: ''1408 (film)''.
Year '1408' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1408

Births

Deaths

Marriages

Events of 1408

★ December 13 - The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.

★ Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.

★ First mention of the Moldavian town of Iaşi.

★ The ''Yongle Encyclopedia'' is completed.

★ Gotland passes under Danish rule.

Births

★ April 8 - Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (died 1431)

★ April 23 - John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (died 1462)

★ ''date unknown'' - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (died 1435)

Deaths

★ February 20 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (born 1342)

★ May 31 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (born 1358)

★ December 4 - Valentina Visconti, wife of Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Pope Mathhew of Alexandria, Coptic Pope

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★ Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman

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★ John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (born 1370)

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★ Miran Shah, son of Timur (born 1366)

Marriages

★ September 16 - Thorstein Olafssøn married Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of Norse history of Greenland