1414
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Year 1414 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1414

• January 7 - Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg becomes the 28th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
• August 6 - Joan II succeeds her brother Ladislas as Queen of Naples.
• November 16 - The Council of Constance begins.
• The Habsburg Duke Ernest the Iron (1377-1424) is the last duke to be enthroned according to the ancient Karantanian ritual of installing dukes on the Duke's Stone.
• Alien priory cells are suppressed.
• The Tibetan lama Je Tsongkhapa of the Gelug Buddhist sect declined the offer of the Yongle Emperor of China to appear in the capital at Nanjing, although he sent his disciple Chosrje Shākya Yeshes, who was given the title "State Teacher". The later Xuande Emperor granted Yeshes the title of a king upon a return visit to China, only he traveled to the new capital at Beijing.

Births

• May 14 - Francis I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1450)
• July 21 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
• August 18 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
• November 9 - Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
• date unknown
  • Charles I, Count of Nevers, Count of Nevers and Rethel (d. 1464)
  • Shubun, Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1463)
• probable - Narsinh Mehta, poet-saint of Gujarat (d. 1481)

Deaths

• February 19 - Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1353)
• August 6 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
• September 1 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
• date unknown
  • Tewodros I of Ethiopia, Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Fairuzabadi, Arab lexicographer (b. 1329)
  • Jurjani, Arabian encyclopaedic writer (b. 1339)
  • John I Stanley of the Isle of Man, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, King of the Isle of Man (b. 1350)
• probable - Zyndram z Maszkowic, Polish 14th and 15th century knight (b. 1355)