1404
| Years: 1401 1402 1403 - 1404 - 1405 1406 1407 | |
| Decades: 1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430s | |
| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century | |
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Events
- June 14 - Owain Glyndwr of Wales allies with the French against the English and Henry Bolingbroke. Later he gains control of his country, declares himself Prince of Wales, and holds a parliament.
- Founding of the University of Turin.
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Births
- February 9 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (died 1453)
- February 14 - Leone Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (died 1472)
- March 25 (baptism) - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
- July 25 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
- Marie d'Anjou, queeen of Charles VII of France (died 1463)
- Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1451)
- Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat (died 1440)
- Yamana Souzen, Japanese warlord and monk (died 1473)
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Deaths
- April 27 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (born 1342)
- September 14 - Duke Albert IV of Austria (born 1377)
- September 27 - William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (born 1320)
- October 1 - Pope Boniface IX (born 1356)
- December 13 - Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
- Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (born 1350)
