1421

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Year '1421' was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1421

Births

Deaths

References

Events of 1421

★ March 21 - Battle of Baugé. A small French force surprises and defeats a smaller English force under Thomas, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Henry V of England, in Normandy.

★ May 26 - Mehmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Murad II.

★ November 17–19 - St. Elizabeth flood. The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands was flooded due to extremely high tide of the North Sea. 72 villages were drowned, killing about 10,000 people.

★ John III of Dampierre, Marquis of Namur, sells his estates to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy

★ The first patent is issued by the Republic of Florence.^[1]

★ In a theory proposed by Gavin Menzies, supposedly the year that Chinese explorer Hong Bao & Zhou Wen discovered the Americas, beating Columbus by about 70 years.

Births

★ July 25 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (died 1461)

★ December 6 - King Henry VI of England (died 1471)

★ ''date unknow''

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★ Sogi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (died 1502)

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★ Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France

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★ Ponhea Yat, ruler of the Khmer Empire (died 1467)

Deaths

★ January 21 - Niccolò I Trinci, lord of Foligno (assassinated)

★ March 22 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (born 1388)

★ May - Balša III, ruler of Zeta

★ May 26 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)

★ ''date unknown'' - John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (born 1385)

References

1. Terence, Kealey. ''The Economic Laws of Scientific Research.'' 1996.

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