1417 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1380s  1390s  1400s  – 1410s –  1420s  1430s  1440s
Years:	1414 1415 1416 – 1417 – 1418 1419 1420

Events of 1417

• April 18 – Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg begins to rule as margrave of Brandenburg
• June 24 – The Isle of Man holds the first known Tynwald Day; the annual meeting of its parliament Tynwald which has continued every year until present.
• July 27 – Avignon Pope Benedict XIII is deposed, bringing to an end the Great Western Schism.
• November 11 – Pope Martin V succeeds Pope Gregory XII as the 206th pope.
• The use of street lighting is first recorded in London, when Sir Henry Barton, the mayor, orders lanterns with lights to be hung out on the winter evenings between Hallowtide and Candlemas.

1417 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1417 MCDXVII
Ab urbe condita	2170
Armenian calendar	866 ԹՎ ՊԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6167
Bahá'í calendar	-427–-426
Bengali calendar	824
Berber calendar	2367
English Regnal year	4 Hen. 5 – 5 Hen. 5
Buddhist calendar	1961
Burmese calendar	779
Byzantine calendar	6925–6926
Chinese calendar	丙申年十二月十四日 (4053/4113-12-14) — to — 丁酉年十一月廿四日 (4054/4114-11-24)
Coptic calendar	1133–1134
Ethiopian calendar	1409–1410
Hebrew calendar	5177–5178
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1473–1474
- Shaka Samvat	1339–1340
- Kali Yuga	4518–4519
Holocene calendar	11417
Iranian calendar	795–796
Islamic calendar	819–820
Japanese calendar	Ōei 24 (応永24年)
Korean calendar	3750
Minguo calendar	495 before ROC 民前495年
Thai solar calendar	1960

Births

• February 23 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
• June 19 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (died 1468)
• November 23 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (died 1487)
• date unknown
  • Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, regent of Sweden
  • Nicholas of Flüe, Swiss hermit and saint (died 1487)

Deaths

• January – Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (born 1357)
• April 29 – Louis II of Naples (born 1377)
• September 4 – Robert Hallam, English Catholic bishop
• September 16 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
• October 18 – Pope Gregory XII
• December 14 – John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader
• probable – Huitzilíhuitl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan