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Events

January–December

• January 27 - The Republic of Ragusa is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.
• May 29 - Battle of Gallipoli: Venetian admiral Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.
• May 30 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.

  Date unknown

• The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is destroyed.

  Births

• February 26 - Christopher of Bavaria
• March 27 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer
• March 28 - Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar
• May 25 - Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace
• October 26 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent
• date unknown
• * Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman
• * Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims
• * Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence
• probable - Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess and countess

  Deaths

• February 2 - Racek Kobyla of Dvorce, Bohemian Hetman and Burgrave.
• February 27 - Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre
• April 2 - King Ferdinand I of Aragon
• May 21 - Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland
• May 30 - Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian
• June 15 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France
• October 1 - Yaqub Spata, lord of Arta
• October 14 - Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• December 29 - Mathew Swetenham, bowbearer of Henry IV
• date unknown - The Limbourg brothers, painters of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
• probable
• *Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh prince and leader of the Welsh Revolt
• *Julian of Norwich, English anchoress, mystic and author