1402

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s
Years:	1399 1400 1401 1402 1403 1404 1405

1402 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	1402 MCDII
Ab urbe condita	2155
Armenian calendar	851 ԹՎ ՊԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	6152
Balinese saka calendar	1323–1324
Bengali calendar	809
Berber calendar	2352
English Regnal year	3Hen. 4– 4Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1946
Burmese calendar	764
Byzantine calendar	6910–6911
Chinese calendar	Tân tịNăm (MetalSnake) 4099 or 3892 — to — Nhâm ngọ năm (WaterHorse) 4100 or 3893
Coptic calendar	1118–1119
Discordian calendar	2568
Ethiopian calendar	1394–1395
Hebrew calendar	5162–5163
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	1458–1459
-Shaka Samvat	1323–1324
-Kali Yuga	4502–4503
Holocene calendar	11402
Igbo calendar	402–403
Iranian calendar	780–781
Islamic calendar	804–805
Japanese calendar	Ōei9 ( ứng vĩnh ９ năm )
Javanese calendar	1316–1317
Julian calendar	1402 MCDII
Korean calendar	3735
Minguo calendar	510 beforeROC Dân trước 510 năm
Nanakshahi calendar	−66
Thai solar calendar	1944–1945
Tibetan calendar	Âm kim xà năm (female Iron-Snake) 1528 or 1147 or 375 — to — Dương thủy mã năm (male Water-Horse) 1529 or 1148 or 376

Year1402(MCDII) was acommon year starting on Sunday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 29– KingJogailaof thePoland–LithuaniaUnion answers the rumblings against his rule of Poland, by marryingAnna of Celje,a granddaughter ofCasimir III of Poland.
• March 26–David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay,heir to the throne ofScotland,dies while being held captive by his uncle,Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany.
• May 21– Following the death of QueenMaria of Sicily,her husbandMartin I of Sicily,now sole ruler, marriesBlanche of Navarre.
• June 22
  • Battle of Nesbit Moor:An English force decisively defeats a returningScottishraiding party.
  • Battle of Bryn Glas:Welsh rebels underOwain Glyndŵrdefeat the English on the England/Wales border.The Welsh captureEdmund Mortimer,son of the 3rd Earl, who defects to the Welsh cause, on 30 November marrying Owain's daughter Catrin.
• June 26–Battle of Casalecchio:Gian Galeazzo Visconti,the Duke ofMilan,crushes the forces ofBolognaandFlorence,but dies from a fever later this year and is succeeded by his son,Gian Maria Visconti.
• July 12– TheMing dynastyprince Zhu Di and his army occupy the Ming capital,Nanjing.TheJianwen Emperoris either lost or killed and Zhu Di takes over the throne as theYongle Emperor,marking the end of theJingnan campaign.
• July 20–Battle of Ankara:An invadingTimurid Empireforce defeats theOttomanSultanBayezid I,who is captured. Aperiod of interregnumbegins in the Ottoman Empire, with the futureMehmed Ias one of the leading claimants to the throne. AfterSerbiais freed from Ottoman rule,Stefan Lazarevićis crowned Despot ofSerbia.
• September– The English Parliament passespenal Laws against Waleswhich stop the Welsh fromgathering together,obtaining office,carrying armsand living in English towns. Any Englishman who marries a Welsh woman also comes under the laws.
• September 14–Battle of Homildon Hill:Northern English nobles, led by SirHenry Percy (Hotspur),and usinglongbows,decisively defeat a Scottish raiding army and capture their leader, theEarl of Douglas.

Capture of Bayezid I after Battle of Ankara

Date unknown

• TheMalacca Sultanateis established at Melaka Darul Azim (modern-day Melaka Darul Azim, Malaysia).
• After the ChristianKnights of Saint John,who are rulingSmyrna,refuse to convert to Islam or pay tribute,Timurhas the entire population massacred. The Knights subsequently begin buildingBodrum CastleinBodrum,to defend against future attacks.
• Conquest of the Canary Islands:KingHenry III of Castilesends French explorerJean de Béthencourtto colonize theCanary Islands.Béthencourt receives the title King of the Canary Islands but recognizes Henry as his overlord.
• TheRepublic of Genoaregains control ofMonaco.
• TheAq Qoyunlu( "White Sheep Turkmen" ) tribal confederation, in modern-day northernIraqandIran,moves its capital fromAmidatoDiyarbakır.
• Moldaviabecomes a vassal of theKingdom of Polandin order to protect itself from an invasion byHungary.
• Maria II Zaccariasucceeds her husband,Pedro de San Superano,as regent of thePrincipality of Achaea(modern-day southernGreece).
• Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Maelsechlainn mac William Buidhe O Cellaigh, as King ofUí Mainein modern-dayCounty GalwayandCounty RoscommoninIreland.
• TheUniversity of Würzburgis founded.
• TheGangnidomap of the world is completed inJoseon dynastyKorea.
• AGreat cometis sighted.
• A big fire in the city ofUtrechtstarts near theJacobikerk.

Births

• February 6–Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse,Landgrave of Hesse (1413-1458) (d.1458)
• April 28–Nezahualcoyotl,Acolhuanphilosopher, warrior, poet andtlatoaniof Texcoco (d.1472)
• May 2–Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal(d.1445)
• June 7–Ichijō Kaneyoshi,Japanese court noble (d.1481)
• September 29–Ferdinand the Holy Princeof Portugal (d.1443)
• November 23–Jean de Dunois,French nobleman and soldier, illegitimate son of Louis I (d.1468)
• date unknown–Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham,English nobleman (d.1460)

Deaths

• March 26–David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay,heir to the throne of Scotland (b.1378)
• May 3–João Anes,Archbishop of Lisbon
• June 26–Giovanni I Bentivoglio,Ruler of Bologna (b.1358)
• July 13–Jianwen Emperorof China (b.1377)
• August 1–Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York,son of KingEdward III of England(b.1341)
• September 3–Gian Galeazzo Visconti,first Duke of Milan (b.1351)
• date unknown
  • Empress Ma (Jianwen)of China (b.1378)
  • Hywel Sele,Welsh nobleman