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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 14th century15th century16th century
Decades: 1390s  1400s  1410s  – 1420s –  1430s  1440s  1450s
Years: 1418 1419 142014211422 1423 1424

Events of 1421

  • March 21Battle 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 an 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.
  • In a theory proposed by Gavin Menzies, supposedly the year that Chinese explorer Hong Bao and Zhou Wen discovered the Americas, beating Columbus by about 70 years.
1421 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1421
MCDXXI
Ab urbe condita 2174
Armenian calendar 870
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Assyrian calendar 6171
Balinese saka calendar 1342–1343
Bengali calendar 828
Berber calendar 2371
English Regnal year 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 1342–1343
 - Kali Yuga 4521–4522
Holocene calendar 11421
Igbo calendar 421–422
Iranian calendar 799–800
Islamic calendar 823–824
Japanese calendar Ōei 28
(応永28年)
Javanese calendar 1335–1336
Julian calendar 1421
MCDXXI
Korean calendar 3754
Minguo calendar 491 before ROC
民前491年
Nanakshahi calendar −47
Thai solar calendar 1963–1964
Tibetan calendar 阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1547 or 1166 or 394
    — to —
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
1548 or 1167 or 395

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