1402

This article is about the year 1402.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1370s  1380s  1390s  – 1400s –  1410s  1420s  1430s
Years:	1399 1400 1401 – 1402 – 1403 1404 1405

1402 by topic
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Architecture - Art
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Establishments and disestablishments categories
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Art and literature
1402 in poetry

1402 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1402 MCDII
Ab urbe condita	2155
Armenian calendar	851 ԹՎ ՊԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	6152
Bengali calendar	809
Berber calendar	2352
English Regnal year	3 Hen. 4 – 4 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1946
Burmese calendar	764
Byzantine calendar	6910–6911
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4098 or 4038     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4099 or 4039
Coptic calendar	1118–1119
Discordian calendar	2568
Ethiopian calendar	1394–1395
Hebrew calendar	5162–5163
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1458–1459
- Shaka Samvat	1324–1325
- Kali Yuga	4503–4504
Holocene calendar	11402
Igbo calendar	402–403
Iranian calendar	780–781
Islamic calendar	804–805
Japanese calendar	Ōei 9 (応永９年)
Julian calendar	1402 MCDII
Korean calendar	3735
Minguo calendar	510 before ROC 民前510年
Thai solar calendar	1944–1945

Year 1402 (MCDII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 29 – King Jogaila of the Poland–Lithuania union answers the rumblings against his rule of Poland by marrying Anna of Celje, a granddaughter of Casimir III of Poland.
• March 26 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland, dies while being held captive by his uncle, Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany.
• May 21 – Following the death of Queen Maria of Sicily, her husband Martin I of Sicily, now sole ruler, marries Blanche of Navarre.
• June 22
  • Battle of Nesbit Moor: An English force decisively defeats a returning Scottish raiding party.
  • Battle of Bryn Glas: Welsh rebels defeat the English on the England/Wales border..
• June 26 – Battle of Casalecchio: Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Duke of Milan, crushes the forces of Bologna and Florence, but he dies from a fever later this year and is succeeded by his son Gian Maria Visconti.
• July 12 – The Ming dynasty prince Zhu Di and his army occupies the Ming capital, Nanjing. The Jianwen Emperor is either lost or killed and Zhu Di takes over the throne as the Yongle Emperor. This marked the end of the Jingnan campaign.
• July 20 – Battle of Ankara: An invading Timurid Dynasty force defeats the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, who is captured. A period of interregnum begins in the Ottoman Empire with the future Mehmed I as one of the leading claimants to the throne. After Serbia is freed from Ottoman rule, Stefan Lazarević is crowned Despot of Serbia.
• September – Penal Laws against Wales The English Parliament passes the Penal Laws against Wales. The Laws stop the Welsh from gathering together, obtaining office, carrying arms and living in English towns. Any Englishman who marries a Welsh woman also comes under the laws.
• September 14 – Battle of Homildon Hill: Northern English nobles led by Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy and using longbows decisively defeat a Scottish raiding army and capture their leader, the Earl of Douglas.

Capture of Bayezid I after Battle of Ankara

Date unknown

• After the Christian Knights of Saint John, who are ruling Smyrna, refuse to convert to Islam or pay tribute, Timur has the entire population massacred. The Knights of Saint John subsequently begin building Bodrum Castle in Bodrum to defend against future attacks.
• Conquest of the Canary Islands: King Henry III of Castile sends French explorer Jean de Béthencourt to colonize the Canary Islands. Béthencourt receives the title King of the Canary Islands, but recognizes Henry as his overlord. This marks the beginning of the Spanish Empire.
• The Genoese regain control of Monaco.
• The White Sheep Turkmen Empire, in present-day northern Iraq and Iran, moves its capital from Amida to Diyarbakır.
• Moldavia becomes a vassal of Poland in order to protect itself from an invasion by Hungary.
• Maria II Zaccaria succeeds her husband, Peter of Saint Superan, as ruler of the Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece).
• Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Maelsechlainn mac William Buidhe O Cellaigh as King of Uí Maine in present day County Galway and County Roscommon in Ireland.
• The University of Würzburg, Germany, is founded.
• The Kangnido map of the world is completed in Joseon Dynasty Korea.
• The Great Comet of 1402 is sighted.
• Big fire in the city of Utrecht started near the Jacobus church

Births

• August 15 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d. 1460)
• September 29 – Fernando, the Saint Prince of Portugal (d. 1443)
• November 23 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
• date unknown – Leonor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1445)

Deaths

• March 26 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (b. 1378)
• May 3 – João Anes, Archbishop of Lisbon
• July 13 – Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
• August 1 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1341)
• September 3 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (b. 1351)