1408

Year 1408 (MCDVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

January–December

 * February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: A royalist army defeats the last remnants of the Percy Rebellion.
 * September – Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.
 * September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland.
 * December 5 – Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
 * December 13 – The Order of the Dragon is founded under King Sigismund of Hungary.

Date unknown

 * The Moldavian town of Iaşi is first mentioned.
 * The Yongle Encyclopedia is completed.
 * Gotland passes under Danish rule.
 * Zheng He delivers 300 virgins from Korea to the Chinese emperor.
 * Mihail I becomes co-ruler of Wallachia, with his father Mircea cel Bătrân.

Births

 * January 25 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
 * February 14 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435)
 * March 25 – Agnes of Baden, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg, German noble (d. 1473)
 * April 8 – Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (d. 1431)
 * April 23 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1462)
 * May 22 – Annamacharya, Indian mystic saint composer (d. 1503)
 * October 1 or 1409 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden (d. 1470)

Deaths

 * February 19 – Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel (in battle)
 * February 20 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English rebel (in battle) (b. 1341)
 * April – Miran Shah, son of Timur the Lame (b. 1366)
 * April 10 or April 11 – Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
 * May 24 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
 * May 31 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1358)
 * September 15 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (b. 1384)
 * September 22 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)
 * December 4 – Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans by marriage to Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
 * date unknown – Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria