Decades: 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s

Years: 1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 - 1401 - 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406

Table of contents

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Events

• The Lollards, a religious sect taught by John Wycliffe, were persecuted for their beliefs. The Archbishop of Canterbury pressured King Henry IV of England to outlaw them as heretics, under the Act De Heretico Comburendo. After travelling to London, William Sawtre was executed by burning for preaching his beliefs.

• Emperor Shoko of Japan