1412

Year 1412 (MCDXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) on the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s
Years:	1409 1410 1411 1412 1413 1414 1415

1412 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1412 MCDXII
Ab urbe condita	2165
Armenian calendar	861 ԹՎ ՊԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	6162
Balinese saka calendar	1333–1334
Bengali calendar	819
Berber calendar	2362
English Regnal year	13 Hen. 4 – 14 Hen. 4
Buddhist calendar	1956
Burmese calendar	774
Byzantine calendar	6920–6921
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4109 or 3902 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4110 or 3903
Coptic calendar	1128–1129
Discordian calendar	2578
Ethiopian calendar	1404–1405
Hebrew calendar	5172–5173
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1468–1469
- Shaka Samvat	1333–1334
- Kali Yuga	4512–4513
Holocene calendar	11412
Igbo calendar	412–413
Iranian calendar	790–791
Islamic calendar	814–815
Japanese calendar	Ōei 19 (応永１９年)
Javanese calendar	1326–1327
Julian calendar	1412 MCDXII
Korean calendar	3745
Minguo calendar	500 before ROC 民前500年
Nanakshahi calendar	−56
Thai solar calendar	1954–1955
Tibetan calendar	阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1538 or 1157 or 385 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1539 or 1158 or 386

Events edit

January 16 – The Medici Family are made official bankers of the Papacy.
January 25 – Ernest, Duke of Austria, marries Cymburgis of Masovia.
February 28 – The University of St Andrews in Scotland is granted a charter of privilege by the local bishop.^[1]
July 24 – Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.^[2]
October 5 – Emperor Go-Komatsu abdicates, and Emperor Shoko accedes to the throne of Japan.
October 28 – Eric of Pomerania becomes sole ruler of the Kalmar Union (Sweden, Denmark and Norway), upon the death of Queen Margaret.
December – Battle of Chalagan: The Kara Koyunlu Turkomans defeat the Georgians under Constantine I of Georgia, and their ally Ibrahim I of Shirvan.

The first mention is made of Wallachian knights competing in a jousting tournament, in Buda.
John II of Castile declares the Valladolid laws, that restrict the social rights of Jews. Among many other restrictions, the laws force Jews to wear distinctive clothes, and deny them administrative positions.
Years after its publication in the 14th century, the Ming Dynasty Chinese artillery officer Jiao Yu adds the preface to his classic book on gunpowder warfare, the Huolongjing.

January 6 – Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint (tradition holds that she was born on the Feast of the Epiphany, but there is no documentary evidence) (d. 1431)
January 26 – William IV, Lord of Egmont, IJsselstein, Schoonderwoerd and Haastrecht and Stadtholder of Guelders (d. 1483)
April 22 – Reinhard III, Count of Hanau (1451–1452) (d. 1452)
June 5 – Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (d. 1478)
August 22 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony and Margrave of Meissen (1428–1464) and Landgrave of Thuringia (1440–1445) (d. 1464)
November 17 – Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (d. 1468)
December 8 – Astorre II Manfredi, Italian noble (d. 1468)

March – Albrekt of Mecklenburg, king of Sweden 1364–1389 (b. 1336)
April 2 – Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Castilian traveller and writer
May 16 – Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
August 6 – Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (b. 1347)
September 14 – Ingegerd Knutsdotter, Swedish abbess (b. 1356)
October 28 – Margaret I of Denmark, queen regnant of Denmark of Norway since 1387 and of Sweden since 1389 (b. 1353)^[3]
date unknown – Ignatius Abraham bar Garib, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin^[4]
date unknown – Jalal ad-Din khan, khan of the Golden Horde

^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
^ Barsoum, Ephrem (2003). The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by Matti Moosa (2nd ed.). Gorgias Press. p. 497.
^ Edward A. Thomas (1888). Comprehensive Dictionary of Biography: Containing Succinct Accounts of the Most Eminent Persons in All Ages, Countries, and Professions. Porter & Coates. p. 379.
^ Barsoum, Ephrem (2003). The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by Matti Moosa (2nd ed.). Gorgias Press. p. 495.