Information about 1421
| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1390s 1400s 1410s - 1420s - 1430s 1440s 1450s |
| Years: | 1418 1419 1420 - 1421 - 1422 1423 1424 |
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- For the controversial hypothesis advanced by Gavin Menzies, see: 1421 hypothesis. For the book, see: .
Year 1421 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1421
- 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 17–19 - St. Elizabeth flood. The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands was flooded due to extremely high tide of the North Sea. 72 villages were drowned, killing about 10,000 people.
- 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.[1]
- In a theory proposed by Gavin Menzies, supposedly the year that Chinese explorer Hong Bao & Zhou Wen discovered the Americas, beating Columbus by about 70 years.
| Gregorian calendar | 1421 MCDXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2174 |
| Armenian calendar | 870 ԹՎ ՊՀ |
| Bah' calendar | -423 – -422 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1965 |
| Chinese calendar | 4057/4117-7-24 (庚子年七月廿四日) — to — 4058/4118-7-5(辛丑年七月初五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1137 – 1138 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1413 – 1414 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5181 – 5182 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1476 – 1477 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1343 – 1344 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4522 – 4523 |
| Holocene calendar | 11421 |
| Iranian calendar | 799 – 800 |
| Islamic calendar | 824 – 825 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 0 (応永0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2081 (皇紀2081年) |
| Julian calendar | 1466 |
| Korean calendar | 3754 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1964 |
Births
- July 25 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (died 1461)
- December 6 - King Henry VI of England (died 1471)
- date unknow
- Sogi, 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)
- May - Balša III, ruler of Zeta
- May 26 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
- date unknown - John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (born 1385)
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- Chūzan - Shō Shishō - King of Chūzan (1407-1421)
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Gavin Menzies (b. 1937) is a retired submarine commander and the author of the controversial book which asserted that ships from the Chinese fleet of admiral Zheng He traveled to the Americas prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and circumnavigated the globe a century
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1421 hypothesis suggests that during the Ming Dynasty of China, from 1421 to 1423, ships commanded by the Chinese captains Zhou Wen (周聞), Zhou Man (周滿), Yang Qing (楊慶) and Hong Bao (洪保), in the fleet of Emperor Zhu Di's
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March 21 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Battle of Baugé, fought between the English and the Franco-Scots on March 21, 1421 in Baugé, France, east of Angers, was a major defeat for the English in the Hundred Years' War.
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Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (29 September 1388 Kenilworth Castle – 22 March 1421 Battle of Baugé) was the second son of King Henry IV of England and his first wife, Mary de Bohun.
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