1405
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| Gregorian calendar | 1405 MCDV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2158 |
| Armenian calendar | 854 ԹՎ ՊԾԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6155 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1326–1327 |
| Bengali calendar | 812 |
| Berber calendar | 2355 |
| English Regnal year | 6 Hen. 4 – 7 Hen. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1949 |
| Burmese calendar | 767 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6913–6914 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4102 or 3895 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4103 or 3896 |
| Coptic calendar | 1121–1122 |
| Discordian calendar | 2571 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1397–1398 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5165–5166 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1461–1462 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1326–1327 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4505–4506 |
| Holocene calendar | 11405 |
| Igbo calendar | 405–406 |
| Iranian calendar | 783–784 |
| Islamic calendar | 807–808 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 12 (応永１２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1319–1320 |
| Julian calendar | 1405 MCDV |
| Korean calendar | 3738 |
| Minguo calendar | 507 before ROC 民前507年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −63 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1947–1948 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1531 or 1150 or 378 — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1532 or 1151 or 379 |
Year 1405 (MCDV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- May 29 – In England, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, meets Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home and then imprisons them.
- June 8 – Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
- July 11 – Ming Dynasty fleet commander Zheng He sets sail from Suzhou to explore the world for the first time.
- October 5 – Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes a letter to Queen Isabeau urging her to intervene in the political struggle between the dukes of Burgundy and Orleans.
- November 17 – The Sultanate of Sulu is established on the Sulu Archipelago off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines.
Date unknown
- Bath Abbey is built in England.
- First written record of whiskey being consumed recorded in Ireland, where it is distilled by Catholic monks.
- Bellifortis, a book on military technology, is published by Konrad Kyeser.
- Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies.
Births
- March 6 – King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
- May 6 – George Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero (d. 1468) (probable date)
- October 18 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
Deaths
- January 12 – Eleanor Maltravers, English noblewoman (b. 1345)
- February 14 – Timur (aka Tamerlane), Turco-Mongol monarch and conqueror (b.1336)
- May 29 – Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
- June 8 – Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, executed in York (b. 1385)
- June 8 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, executed in York (b. c.1350)
- June 20 – Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, fourth son of King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1343) – "the Wolf of Badenoch"
- August 17 – Thomas West, 1st Baron West (b. 1335)
- probable – Jean Froissart, French chronicler (b. 1337)