1405

Years: 1402 1403 1404 - 1405 - 1406 1407 1408

Decades: 1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies
• Erection of Bath Abbey (-- 1499)
• Publication of Bellifortis by Konrad Kyeser (book on military technology)

Births

• October 18 - Pope Pius II
• Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, Albania's national hero

Deaths

• February 14 - Timur (aka Tamerlane), Mongol monarch and conqueror
• French poet Eustache Deschamps dies (born 1346)