1406

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
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

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

[edit] 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.

1406 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1406 MCDVI
Ab urbe condita	2159
Armenian calendar	855 ԹՎ ՊԾԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-438 – -437
Berber calendar	2356
Buddhist calendar	1950
Burmese calendar	768
Byzantine calendar	6914 – 6915
Chinese calendar	乙酉年十二月十一日 (4042/4102-12-11) — to — 丙戌年十一月廿一日 (4043/4103-11-21)
Coptic calendar	1122 – 1123
Ethiopian calendar	1398 – 1399
Hebrew calendar	5166 – 5167
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1461 – 1462
- Shaka Samvat	1328 – 1329
- Kali Yuga	4507 – 4508
Holocene calendar	11406
Iranian calendar	784 – 785
Islamic calendar	808 – 809
Japanese calendar	Ōei 13 (応永13年)
Korean calendar	3739
Thai solar calendar	1949
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[edit] 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

[edit] 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