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Events

Politics and world affairs

Holy Roman Empire
February 19: Savoy becomes duchy when King Sigismund elevates Count Amadeus VIII, the peaceable, to the duke’s status.
May 30: Jerome of Prague, companion of Jan Hus and co-founder of the Hussite movement, is burned as a heretic at the Council in Constance, having distanced himself from the revocation of his statements.
When the return of the Old Council to Lübeck, which had been overthrown in 1408, became apparent, the goldsmith Heyno Sobbe, as a member of the New Council, unsuccessfully organized a craftsman revolt to prevent this. He was arrested and executed on June 11.

Hundred Years of War

His journey through Western Europe also takes the Roman-German King Sigismund to England with the aim of mediating a peace treaty with France. Together with Wilhelm von Holland, he sets up a mutua conventio in June for a rapprochement between the two nations. But Charles VI of France withdraws his consent before the signing of the treaty. In further conversations and correspondences between Sigismund and Charles VI, their relationship deteriorates considerably.
15 August: The Treaty of Canterbury is concluded as a treaty of alliance in the framework of the Hundred Years' War between King Henry V of England and King Sigismund. The treaty will be ratified by September, but receives little more than symbolic significance in the following war years.

Further events in Europe
2 April: King Ferdinand the Righteous of Aragon dies. The crown of Aragon passes to his son Alfonso V. He becomes King of Valencia, Naples and Sicily, as well as Sardinia.
The Republic of Ragusa is the first city-state in Europe to abolish slavery. At the same time, the slave trade is prohibited by law.

Asia
King Shō Hashi of the Chūzan Empire on the island of Okinawa conquers neighboring Hokuzan towards the end of the Sanzan period. Han’anchi, the last king of Hokuzan, commits suicide after being betrayed.

Culture

15 March: Due to the death of Jean de Valois, duc de Berry, the book of hours Très Riches Heures of the three brothers of Limburg, who die of a pestilence just like their client, is not completed.

Religion

Christianity
After the death of the Olmütz administrator Wenzel Gerard von Burenitz on 12 September, the majority of the canons present will elect Johann von Bucca as his successor on 21 September. However, the members who are not present elect the Vyšehrad Dean Albrecht of Březí on 3 October. King Wenceslas and the Archbishop of Prague confirm the election of Albrecht, whose opponents are to be captured. After Albrecht attends the Mass of a Hussite priest a few days after his inauguration, there is an uprising in Olmütz. Albrecht flees to the episcopal city of Kremsier. Then ordered on 14. December da