In the year 1400, Henry IV of England executes Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury, and the Baron de Despencer for their attempt to have Richard II restored as king (Jan) who then soon dies in captivity (Feb 14), the English occupy Edinburgh, but fail to capture Edinburgh Castle (Aug), the Mississippian Culture starts to decline, the Kingdom of Kongo begins, remaining mostly independent for nearly 500 years - and all these fine people were born:

1400 Individual post In the year 1401, Turko-Mongol Emperor Timur sacks Damascus (Mar 24), Timur raids the city of Baghdad (Jun) - and all these fine people were born: 1401-0914 Maria of Castile* Queen of Aragon - Segovia, Kingdom of Castile (1458/56) 1402 Individual post 1403-0222 King Charles VII of France* “Charles the Victorious” - Paris, France (1461/58) 1404-0214 Leon Battista Alberti* painter/poet/cryptographer - Genoa, Italy (1472/68) 1405-0208 Constantine XI* the last reigning Byzantine Emperor - Constantinople (1453/48) 1405-09xx Gilles de Rais* soldier/ convicted serial killer - Champtosé-sur-Loire, France (1440/35) 1405-1018 Pope Pius II* (b Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius Bartholomeus in Latin) writer of the Commentaries, the only revealed autobiography ever to have been written by a reigning pope - Corsignano, Republic of Siena (1464/58) 1406-0926 Thomas de Ros* peer/soldier/politician - Belvoir, Leicestershire (1430/23) 1407-0827 Ashikaga Yoshikazu* the 5th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in the Muromachi period - Japan (1425/24) In the year 1408,  Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland (Sep 16), and the island of Gotland passes under Danish rule 1408-0522 Annamacharya* Hindu saint/musician - Tirumala, Andra Pradesh, India (1503/94) 1409 Individual post Updated 26.3.2022 Search for another year here