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1411
1411
250px|thumb|February 17:Musa Çelebi becomes new Ottoman Sultan after forcing his brother Süleyman Çelebi from the throne and killing him.
Year 1411 (MCDXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
January 10 – At Anhilpur Patan in the modern-day state of Gujarat in India, Ahmad Shah I becomes the new Sultan of Gujarat upon the death of his grandfather, Muzaffar Shah I.Campbell James Macnabb History of Gujarát http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency I. Part II. Musalmán Gujarát. (A.D. 1297–1760.) 1896 The Government Central Press Chapter II. "Ahmedabad Kings (A. D. 1403–1573) 236
January 18 – Jobst, King of the Romans and Elector of Brandenburg, a member of the House of Luxembourg who had been elected to rule as the German monarch on October 1, dies suddenly at the age of 35 following a suspected poisoning. His death clears the way for Jobst's cousin and rival, Sigismund of Hungary, to become the new King of the Romans, and for control of the Electorate of Brandenburg to pass from the House of Luxembourg to the House of Hohenzollern, with Frederick of Hohenzollern becoming the new Elector in return for supporting the election of Sigismund.Jobst 15 427
February 1 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed at Thorn (modern-day Torun in Poland) in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights, ending the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.https://books.google.com/books?id=OmSsBDy1G0EC&q=Peace+of+Thorn+%281411%29+1+february&pg=PA254 The Crusades: A History Riley-Smith Jonathan Simon Christopher 2005 Yale University Press 9780300101287 254 en The Knights cede the region of Dobrzyń Land to the Kingdom of Poland. Thus, the Teutonic Order suffered virtually no territorial losses – a great diplomatic achievement after the crushing defeat in the Battle of Grunwald the previous year.Turnbull, Stephen (2003), Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights, Campaign Series, vol. 122, London: Osprey Publishing, 978-1-84176-561-7 p. 78.Davies, Norman (2005), God's Playground. A History of Poland. The Origins to 1795, vol. I (Revised ed.), Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-925339-5, p. 98.
February 8 – In Spain, a parliament of representatives from Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia is opened at Calatayud to elect a successor to King Martin of Aragon, who had died eight months earlier on May 31.Bonneaud Pierre Le Rôle politique des ordres militaires dans la Couronne d'Aragón pendant l'interrègne de 1410 à 1412 à travers les Anales de Zurita ("The political role of military orders in the Crown of Aragón during the interregnum from 1410 to 1412 through the Anales of Zurita") Aragón en la Edad Media 14 1999 115 Although James II is nominated by the castellan of Aragon to be the new King, the parliament declines to support him or any other candidate.
February 17 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is strangled to death after being forced by his brother Musa Çelebi, to flee the Ottoman capital, Edirne. Rule of the Ottoman domains in Europe (Rumelia) passes to Musa.Kastritsis Dimitris The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402-13 BRILL 2007 978-90-04-15836-8 https://books.google.com/books?id=u_evCQAAQBAJ 153–158
February 26 (2 Dhu al-Qi'dah 813 A.H.) – At 1:20 in the afternoon, Ahmad Shah I formally lays the foundation of the new city of Ahmedabad at the site of Asawal, where he had defeated the warlord Asha Bhil,Pandya Yatin In Ahmedabad, history is still alive as tradition dna 14 November 2010 http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-in-ahmedabad-history-is-still-alive-as-tradition-1466396 26 February 2016http://www.egovamc.com/AhmCity/history.aspx History Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation 27 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160223012426/http://egovamc.com/AhmCity/history.aspx 23 February 2016) at Manek Burj.
March 4
Friso-Hollandic Wars: Friesland soldiers capture the Netherlands city of Staveren, the last Netherlands stronghold in Friesland, after a bitter winter prevents ships from both sides from crossing the Zuiderzee and freezes the moat around the city walls.
Gujarat Sultan Ahmen Shah I declares the new city of Ahmedabad to be the new Gujarat capital.Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad 7 January 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=EL4IAAAAQAAJ 1 February 2015 249
April–June
April 1 – Carlo I Tocco arrives at Ioannina in Greece to become the new ruler of the former Byzantine state, the Despotate of Epirus.Fine (Jr.) John V. A. https://books.google.com/books?id=LvVbRrH1QBgC&q=john+zenevisi+1411 The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest Fine John Van Antwerp 1994 University of Michigan Press 355 978-0-472-08260-5 en
April 13 – Sandalj Hranić, Duke of Bosnia, sells the Croatian coastal town of Ostrovica to the Republic of Venice, giving the Venetians further control of the Dalmatian Coast and both sides of the Adriatic Sea.Mužić Ivan Vlasi u starijoj hrvatskoj historiografiji ("Vlachs and Old Balkan pre-Christian symbolism of deer on stećci") 2010 Muzej hrvatskih arheoloških spomenika (Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments) hr Split 230–231 978-953-6803-25-5 p. 230-231
May 19 – At the order of Louis II of Anjou, General Muzio Attendolo, leader of the Neapolitan Army, defeats the army of King Ladislaus of Naples in a battle at the Battle of Roccasecca in the Lazio region of Italy.Giovanni Battista Carafa, Dell'historie del Regno di Napoli (The History of the Kingdom of Naples) (Naples:Giuseppe Cacchi, 1572) p.158
June 3 – In Vienna, Friedrich IV, nicknamed "Friedrich of the Empty Pockets", becomes the new Duke of Further Austria upon the death of his older brother, Leopold the Fat.A History of the Habsburg Empire 1273–1700 Jean Berenger C.A. Simpson Routledge 2013 62
June 4 – The French city of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon is given exclusive rights by King Charles VI to the ripening and marketing of Roquefort cheese.The Oxford Companion to Cheese https://books.google.com/books?id=pRrGDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT237 2 June 2018 2016 Oxford University Press 978-0199330904 237
July–September
July 6 – Ming dynasty Chinese Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after his third voyage, and presents the ruler Vira Alakesvara, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to China's Emperor Cheng Zu. Mills J. V. G. Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433] Yingya Shenglan 1970 Cambridge University Press Cambridge, England 11–12 0-521-01032-2
July 21 – Sigismund is formally elected unanimously as King of the Romans by the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire present.
July 24 – Battle of Harlaw in Scotland: Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and an army commanded by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, battle to a bloody draw.
August 4 – Parameswara of Malacca (also identified as Bai-li-mi-su-la or Iskandar Shah), Sultan of Malacca in modern-day Malaysia, is hosted by the Ming court in China for the first of three banquets to honor his visit.Wade Geoff Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource http://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/ Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore 2005 770 November 6, 2012
September 3 – The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.
September 21 – King Henry IV of England calls his ninth parliament.
October–December
October 3 – At the Abbey of St Vaast in Arras in France, John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy hosts English Bishop Henry Chichele and several envoys who are ready to negotiate terms for English support of Burgundy in the ongoing French civil war with the Armagnacs. The negotiations fail to attract much support other than to hire some of the English soldiers as mercentaries.Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) pp.288-289
October 22 – The Duke of Burgundy and his troops capture Paris with the help of English mercenaries.The Fifteenth Century Oxford University Press 3 1961 111 978-0198217145 Jacob E. F.
November 3 – The English Parliament is assembled after being summoned by King Henry IV, and again elects Thomas Chaucer as Speaker of the House of Commons.
November 24 – The Swiss canton of Appenzell enters into an alliance with most of the cantons of the Swiss Confederacy.y Appenzell (canton) Appenzell 2 220–221 W. A. B. Coolidge W. A. B. Coolidge
November 30 – Henry IV dismisses Prince Henry and his supporters from the government. The next day, the leader of the Armagnacs, the Duke of Orleans, finds that the gates to the walled city of Paris have been locked and are closely guarded.
December 19 – Royal assent is given by King Henry IV to many of the acts passed by the English Parliament, including the Riot Act 1411, which provides that "The justices of peace and the sheriffs shall arrest those which commit any riot... and inquire of them, and record their offences.
December 21 – King Henry IV of England issues pardons to all but two of the Welsh rebels in the Glyndŵr rebellion except for the leaders, Owain Glyndŵr and Thomas of TrumpingtonTout T.F. Glendower, Owen (1359?–1416?), Welsh rebel 21 Glendower, Owen Thomas Frederick Tout 1901 434
Date unknown
Under the reign of Emperor Cheng Zu of Ming China, work begins to reinstate the ancient Grand Canal of China, which fell into disuse and dilapidation during the previous Yuan dynasty. Between 1411 and 1415, a total of 165,000 laborers dredge the canal bed in Shandong, build new channels, embankments, and canal locks. Four large reservoirs in Shandong are also dug, in order to regulate water levels, instead of resorting to pumping water from local tables. A large dam is also constructed, to divert water from the Wen River southwest into the Grand Canal.
Constantinople is briefly besieged by the Ottoman pretender Musa Çelebi, due to Byzantine support for Süleyman Çelebi during the Ottoman Interregnum.
(possibly early 1412) The Battle of İnceğiz between the rival brothers Mehmed Çelebi and Musa Çelebi, during the Ottoman Interregnum.
Births
September 21 – Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)Richard, 3rd duke of York English noble https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-3rd-duke-of-York Encyclopedia Britannica 29 September 2018 en
date unknown – Juan de Mena, Spanish poet (d. 1456)
Margareta of Celje, Polish Duchess (d. 1480)
Deaths
January 18 – Jobst of Moravia, ruler of Moravia, King of the Romans
February 6 – Esau de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Epirus
June 3 –Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1371)
September – Anne de Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge (b. 1390)
November 4 – Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxiana (b. 1384)
probable – Hasdai Crescas, Jewish philosopher
References