Year 1418 (MCDXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 1418 MCDXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2171 |
| Armenian calendar | 867 ԹՎ ՊԿԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6168 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1339–1340 |
| Bengali calendar | 825 |
| Berber calendar | 2368 |
| English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 5 – 6 Hen. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1962 |
| Burmese calendar | 780 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6926–6927 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4115 or 3908 — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4116 or 3909 |
| Coptic calendar | 1134–1135 |
| Discordian calendar | 2584 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1410–1411 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5178–5179 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1474–1475 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1339–1340 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4518–4519 |
| Holocene calendar | 11418 |
| Igbo calendar | 418–419 |
| Iranian calendar | 796–797 |
| Islamic calendar | 820–821 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 25 (応永２５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1332–1333 |
| Julian calendar | 1418 MCDXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3751 |
| Minguo calendar | 494 before ROC 民前494年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −50 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1960–1961 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1544 or 1163 or 391 — to — 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1545 or 1164 or 392 |
Events
editJanuary–December
edit- January 31 – Mircea I of Wallachia is succeeded by Michael I of Wallachia.
- April 22 – The Council of Constance ends.[1]
- May 29 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, captures Paris.
- July – The English Siege of Rouen begins.[2]
- September 18 – King Taejong (r. 1400-1418) of the Joseon dynasty abdicates the throne. King Sejong ascends to the throne.
Date unknown
edit- João Gonçalves Zarco leads one of the first Portuguese expeditions to the Madeira Islands.
Births
edit- January 9 – Juan Ramón Folch III de Cardona, Aragonese admiral (d. 1485)
- March 14 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1429–1492) (d. 1492)
- April 20 – Earl David of Rookwood
- May 16 – John II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458 (d. 1458)
- August 5 – Malatesta Novello, Italian condottiero (d. 1465)
- September 24 – Anne of Cyprus, Italian noble (d. 1462)
- November 2 – Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder famous for his diary (diario) (d. 1504)
- November 20 – Robert de Morley, 6th Baron Morley, Lord of Morley Saint Botolph (d. 1442)
- December 8 – Queen Jeonghui, Queen consort of Korea (d. 1483)
- December 12 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
- date unknown – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1457)
- Isotta Nogarola, Italian writer and intellectual (d. 1466)
Deaths
edit- January 31 – Mircea I of Wallachia, ruler of Wallachia (b. 1355)
- March 22 – Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
- June 2 – Katherine of Lancaster, queen of Henry III of Castile
- June 12 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
- November 25 – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (b. 1401)
- December 11 – Louis of Piedmont (b. 1364)
- date unknown
- Ixtlilxochitl I, ruler of the Mesoamerican city-state of Texcoco, and ally of the Aztecs.[3]
- Foelke Kampana, Frisian lady and regent (b. 1355)
References
edit- ^ Reich, Emil (1915). Select Documents Illustrating Mediæval and Modern History (in French). P.S. King & Son. pp. 197–198.
- ^ Wagner, J. A. (2006). Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 322. ISBN 0-313-32736-X. OCLC 65205034.
- ^ . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. III. 1900. p. 371.