1412

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

Events of 1412

• January 16 - The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy.
• October 5 - Emperor Go-Komatsu abdicates and Emperor Shoko accedes to the throne of Japan.
• 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 denies 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.

Births

• 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)
• June 6 - Ludovico II of Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (d. 1478)

Deaths

• May 16 - Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
• October 28 - Margaret I of Denmark, queen of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
• King Albert of Sweden (born 1336)
• date unknown - Jalal ad-Din khan, khan of the Golden Horde

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