1416

Year 1416 (MCDXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

January–December

 * January 27 – The Republic of Ragusa is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.
 * May 29 – Battle of Gallipoli: Venetian admiral Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.
 * May 30 – The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.

Date unknown

 * The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge (the longest arch bridge in the world at the time) is destroyed.
 * The Hussite Bible is completed by Tamás Pécsi and Bálint Újlaki.

Births

 * February 26 – Christopher of Bavaria (d. 1448)
 * March 27 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
 * March 28 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489)
 * May 25 – Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace (d. 1480)
 * October 26 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490)
 * date unknown
 * Benedetto Cotrugli, Ragusan/Croatian merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist (d. 1469)
 * Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (d. 1470)
 * Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
 * Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1469)
 * probable – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess and countess (d. 1472)

Deaths

 * February 2 – Racek Kobyla of Dvorce, Bohemian Hetman and Burgrave.
 * February 27 – Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363)
 * April 2 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (b. 1379)
 * May 21 – Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (b. c. 1381)
 * May 30 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)
 * June 15 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
 * September 4 – John I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count
 * October 1 – Yaqub Spata, lord of Arta
 * October 14 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 * December 29 – Mathew Swetenham, bowbearer of Henry IV
 * date unknown – The Limbourg brothers, painters of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
 * probable
 * Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh prince and leader of the Welsh Revolt
 * Julian of Norwich, English anchoress, mystic and author