1421

This article is about the year 1421. For the book by Gavin Menzies, see 1421: The Year China Discovered the World.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1390s  1400s  1410s  – 1420s –  1430s  1440s  1450s
Years:	1418 1419 1420 – 1421 – 1422 1423 1424

1421 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1421 in poetry

1421 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1421 MCDXXI
Ab urbe condita	2174
Armenian calendar	870 ԹՎ ՊՀ
Assyrian calendar	6171
Bengali calendar	828
Berber calendar	2371
English Regnal year	8 Hen. 5 – 9 Hen. 5
Buddhist calendar	1965
Burmese calendar	783
Byzantine calendar	6929–6930
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4117 or 4057     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4118 or 4058
Coptic calendar	1137–1138
Discordian calendar	2587
Ethiopian calendar	1413–1414
Hebrew calendar	5181–5182
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1477–1478
- Shaka Samvat	1343–1344
- Kali Yuga	4522–4523
Holocene calendar	11421
Igbo calendar	421–422
Iranian calendar	799–800
Islamic calendar	823–824
Japanese calendar	Ōei 28 (応永２８年)
Julian calendar	1421 MCDXXI
Korean calendar	3754
Minguo calendar	491 before ROC 民前491年
Thai solar calendar	1963–1964

Year 1421 (MCDXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February 2 – Yongle Emperor, the third emperor of Ming Dynasty shifted the Ming capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
• March 21 – Battle of Baugé: A small French force surprises and defeats a smaller English force under Thomas, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Henry V of England, in Normandy.
• May 26 – Mehmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son Murad II.
• November 17–November 19 – St. Elizabeth flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10,000 people.

Date unknown

• John III of Dampierre, Marquis of Namur, sells his estates to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
• The first patent is issued by the Republic of Florence.
• Portuguese sailors sent by Henry the Navigator cross the Cape Non, going as far as the Cape Bojador.
• Traditional date – Foundation of Larabanga Mosque in modern-day northern Ghana.

Births

• July 25 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (died 1461)
• December 6 – King Henry VI of England (died 1471)
• date unknown
  • Sōgi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (died 1502)
  • Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France
  • Ponhea Yat, ruler of the Khmer Empire (died 1467)

Deaths

• January 21 – Niccolò I Trinci, lord of Foligno (assassinated)
• March 22 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (born 1388)
• April 21 – John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (born 1385)
• May – Balša III, ruler of Zeta
• May 26 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)