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Year 1406 ( MCDVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. January–December. April 4 – James I becomes King of Scotland on the death of his father. He has been detained by Henry IV of England since March 30 and will remain at the English court for 18 years.
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1406. 1 March – Parliament meets, and continues to sit until December, when it finally achieves its aims of nominating and ensuring the payment of members of the Royal Council. 30 March – the heir to the Scottish throne, Prince James, having been captured by English pirates on 22 March, is detained in England.
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Henry IV stops the Epiphany Rising. He kills the people who try to have Richard II of Englandrestored as King.The princes of the German states remove Wenceslaus as Holy Roman Emperor.Rupert is elected as Holy Roman Emperor.Owain Glyndŵr is called Prince of Wales by his followers. He begins attacking Englishplaces in north-east Wales.Timur raids the city of Baghdad in the JalayiridEmpire.A civil war starts in the Majapahit Empire in present-day Indonesia.King Jogaila of the Poland–Lithuania union marries Anna of Celje. She is a granddaughter of Casimir III of Poland.May 21 – Following the death of Queen Maria of Sicily, her husband Martin I of Sicily marries Blanche of Navarre.The University of Würzburg, Germany, is founded.The Great Cometof 1402 is sighted.February 7 – King Henry IV of England marries Joanna of Navarre.Henry 'Hotspur' Percy forms an alliance with Welsh rebel Owain Glyndŵr.July 21 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats a rebel army led by "Hotspur" Percy. Percy is killed in the battle by an arrow in his face.In China, the Ming Emperor Yongle moves the capital from Nanjing to Beijing.June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr allies with the French against the English.October 17 – Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX as the 204th pope.November 19 – St. Elizabeth's flood ruins parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Canary Islands.June 8 – Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, were executed in York on Henry IV's orders.Bath Abbey is built in England.First written record of whiskey being drank is recorded in Ireland. It was distilled by Catholic monks.Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies.April 4 – James I becomes King of Scotland.October 26 – Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England.November 30 – Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII as the 205th pope.December 25 – John II becomes King of Castile.April 10 – The fifth Karmapa finally visits the Ming Dynasty capital, then at Nanjing.November 23 – The Duke of Orleans is killed; war starts again between the Burgundiansand his followers.Rudolfo Belenzani leads a revolt against Bishop Georg von Liechtenstein in Trento, Italy.December 13 – The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.Henry, Prince of Wales retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.January 1 – The Welsh surrender Harlech Castleto the English.December 2 – The University of Leipzigopens.Martin I of Aragon becomes King of Sicily.Ulugh Beg becomes governor of Samarkand.Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса; Беларуская
Year 1406 (MCDVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
