1403

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The year 1403 is a common year starting on a Monday.

Events
8 March: death of and beginning of the Ottoman interregnum, dynastic struggles between his sons (end in 1413). Take Brousse from his brother Isa.
Yogle's sending an expedition to Malacca.
India: Tatar Khan instructs his father Zafar Khan, Gujerat's Muzafari governor, to walk on Delhi. When he refused, he threw Zafar into prison and proclaimed himself sultan under the title of Mohammed Shah (finally in 1407).

Europe

22 January: Marshal Boucicaut receives in Genoa the Byzantine emperor.
February: Gallipoli peace between Suleyman Bey, Venice, Genoa, the Duke of Naxos, Stefan Lazarević and . The Ottomans undertake to return Thessaloniki to .
March 10: Henri Beaufort, son of Jean de Ghent, became Lord Chancellor in England (1403-1404 and 1413-1417).
March 12th: the antipope runs away from Avignon. He resides at the abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseilles from .
3 April: departure of a Genoese expedition led by Marshal Boucicaut, Governor of Genoa, to lift the siege of Famagusta in Cyprus.
April 5: , in the West since , leaves Venice for Constantinople via Modon. He took advantage of Bayazid's respite from Ancyre's defeat against Tamerlan to win in Morea.
26 April: Order of the King of France delegating sovereign authority to the council of the princes of blood presided over by Queen Isabeau of Bavaria during the king's absences.
May 30: The king signs an act replacing the kingdom in the pope's obedience.
June 9: Enters Constantinople. His nephew the usurpator was expelled from the Byzantine throne and exiled to Lemnos, and in autumn he established himself in Thessaloniki, returned by the Turks to the Byzantines.
July 7, Nicosia: Treaty of Peace and Trade between King Janus of Cyprus and the Republic of Genoa.
21 July: England defeated the Percy family at the Battle of Shrewsbury.

5 August: Ladislas de Durazzo is crowned king of Hungary in Zara, in competition with Sigismund of Luxembourg. He was forced to return to Naples because of Sigismund's reaction.
7 October: naval battle between Venetian Admiral Carlo Zeno and the Genoese fleet of Boucicaut at the Battle of Modon on the coast of Morea.
23 November: following a competition (1401), Italian sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti began working on the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery (end in 1424).
November: La Mutacion de Fortune, lyrical text by Christine de Pisan.

Returning from the plague, the Republic of Venice established some forty to protect itself.
Lithuanians invade Russia and take Viazma.
The English privateer William de Wilford captured between Penmarch and Douarnenez (Bretagne) 40 ships from La Rochelle, loaded with iron, oil and wine and burned four others. The corsairs land in Kerity where they loot and burn houses.

Births in 1403

Death in 1403

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Year of the 15th century