1410

Year 1410 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1410

• March 29 - The Aragonese capture Oristano, capital of the Giudicato di Arborea in Sardinia.
• July 15 - Battle of Grunwald (also known as Tannenberg or Zalgiris): Polish and Lithuanian forces under cousins Władysław Jagiełło of Poland and Vytautas the Great decisively defeat the forces of the Teutonic Knights, whose power is broken.
• Jan Hus is excommunicated by the Archbishop of Prague.
• Antipope John XXIII is elected.
• Construction begins on Castle Woerden in the Netherlands.

[edit] Births

• date unknown
  • Olive de Groot
  • Masuccio Salernitano, Italian poet (d. 1475)
  • William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (d. 1484)
• probable
  • Johannes Ockeghem, Dutch composer (d. 1497)
  • Conrad Paumann, German organist and composer (d. 1473)
  • Vecchietta, Sienese painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1480)

[edit] Deaths

• March 5 - Matthew of Kraków, Polish reformer (b. 1335)
• March 16 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
• May 3 - Pope Alexander V
• May 18 - Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1352)
• May 31 - King Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356)
• July 15
  • Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (in battle) (b. 1360)
  • Friedrich von Wallenrode, komtur of Ryna (in battle)
• September 13 - Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (b. 1387)
• date unknown
  • Beatrice, Queen of Portugal in the 1383-1385 crisis and Queen-consort of John I of Castile (b. 1372)
  • John Badby, English martyr
  • Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1337)
  • John Gower, English poet (b. 1330)