Centuries:	14th century - 15th century - 16th century
Decades:	1370s  1380s  1390s  - 1400s -  1410s  1420s  1430s
Years:	1403 1404 1405 - 1406 - 1407 1408 1409

1406 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1406 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1406

• November 30 - Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII as the 205th pope.
• December 25 - John II becomes King of Castile.
• Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing during the Chinese Ming Dynasty.
• Richard Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London.
• Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England.
• James I becomes King of Scotland, after having been captured by Henry IV of England.
• Richard, Earl of Cambridge, marries Anne Mortimer.
• Pisa is subjugated by Florence.

Births

• September 26 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
• date unknown - Ulrich II of Celje (d. 1456)
• Lorenzo Valla, humanist

Deaths

• January 6 - Roger Walden, English bishop
• March 19 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
• April 4 - King Robert III of Scotland
• May 4 - Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence (b. 1331)
• July 15 - Duke William of Austria
• September 16 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow
• November 6 - Pope Innocent VII
• date unknown
  • King Henry III of Castile (b. 1379)
  • Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (b. 1322)
  • John de Sutton V (b. 1380)
• probable - Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde