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Events
- May 29 - Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, meets Archbishop Richard Scrope of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home and then imprisons them
- June 8 - Archbishop Richard Scrope of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders
- Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies
- Erection of Bath Abbey
- Publication of Bellifortis by Konrad Kyeser (book on military technology)
- Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
Births
- March 6 - King John II of Castile (died 1454)
- October 18 - Pope Pius II (died 1464)
- Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero (died 1468)
Deaths
- January 12 - Eleanor Maltravers, English noblewoman (born 1345)
- February 14 - Timur (aka Tamerlane), Mongol monarch and conqueror (born 1336)
- May 29 - Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
- August 17 - Thomas West, 1st Baron West (born 1335)
- Jean Froissart, French chronicler (born 1337)