Rupert of the Palatinate elected to the throne of Germany.
1401. Parliament ordains the burning of Lollards in England. Barcelona bank (earliest existing bank) established.
1402. Battle of Homildon Hill; victory of the Percys, a noble northern English family, over the Scots.
License by royal letters-patent given to the "Confrerie de la Passion" to exhibit sacred dramas, or Mysteries, in France.
"Discovery of the Canary Islands and the African Coast." See vii, [266.]
Tamerlane (Timur the Tartar) defeats and captures Bajazet at Angora.
1403. Battle of Shrewsbury; Henry IV defeats the Percys, who had allied themselves with Glendower to place the Earl of March on the English throne; Harry Percy (Hotspur) slain.
1404. Queen Margaret of Sweden claims Schleswig and Holstein on the death of Gerard VI.
1405. Pisa sold to Florence by the Visconti.
An English act of parliament prohibits anyone not possessing twenty shillings a year in land from apprenticing his sons to any trade.