Editing 1401 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Rupert, King of Germany]], is crowned [[King of the Romans]] at [[Cologne]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Drees |first1=Clayton J. |title=The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780313305887 |page=428 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jDfydG6ReAC&pg=PA428|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] &ndash; Emperor [[Hồ Quý Ly]] of [[Hồ dynasty|Dai Ngu]] (now [[Vietnam]]) passes the throne to his son, [[Hồ Hán Thương]].<ref>Complete Annals of Dai Viet, Social Sciences Publishing House, Hanoi, 1998, volume 2, page 195</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; After their disastrous defeat on December 25 in the Battle of Dongchang in the [[Jingnan campaign]], the forces of the [[Prince of Yan|Principality of Yan]] within China return to [[Names of Beijing|Beiping]] (located at the site of present-day [[Beijing]]).<ref name=Taizong>''[[Ming Shilu|Taizong Shilu]]'', Volume 7</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; The Parliament of England is opened at Westminster by King Henry IV. 
* [[February 3]] &ndash; The Byzantine Emperor [[Manuel II Palaiologos]], who has spent almost two months in England as the guest of King Henry IV, accepts a payment of 3,000 English gold marks in support of an alliance between the two nations, then makes plans to depart England for France.<ref>Kenneth M. Setton, ''The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Volume I: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries'' (The American Philosophical Society,  1976) p.374</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash;
**[[Jingnan campaign]]: After a month's recovery from defeat in battle in China, Prince [[Zhu Di]] mobilizes his troops at Beijing and marches south to fight the Ming dynasty [[Jianwen Emperor]].<ref name=Taizong/>
**John Barry is appointed as the new [[Attorney-General for Ireland]].
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[William Sawtrey]], a Roman Catholic priest and adherent to the [[Lollard]] faith becomes the first person in England to be burned at the stake under the new ''[[De heretico comburendo]]'' law (officially the Suppression of Heresy Act 1400), dying at [[Smithfield, London]] after being convicted of heresy against the Roman Catholic faith.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Breverton |first1=Terry |title=Owain Glyndwr: The Story of the Last Prince of Wales |date=2009 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |isbn=9781445608761 |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XGoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP82|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; As the English Parliament session closes, King Henry IV gives [[royal assent]] to the Suppression of Heresy Act, permitting secular authorities to carry out punishment for religious crimes. The assent comes after the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] pressures King Henry to outlaw the [[Lollards]], followers of [[John Wycliffe]], and criminalizes possession of a copy of Wycliffe's translation of the [[Bible]].
* [[March 13]] &ndash; The Samogitians, supported by Grand Duke [[Vytautas]] of [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania|Lithuania]], rebel against the Teutonic knights and burn two castles. Vytautas is granted increased autonomy by King [[Jogaila]] of the [[Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569)|Poland]]–[[Lithuania]] union.
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Turko-Mongol]] emperor [[Timur]] [[Siege of Damascus (1400)|sacks Damascus]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Ibn Khaldūn and Tamerlane: Their Historic Meeting in Damascus, 1401 A.d. (803 A. H.) A Study Based on Arabic Manuscripts of Ibn Khaldūn's "Autobiography," | last=Ibn Khaldun | author-link=Ibn Khaldun |translator=Walter Joseph Fischel |publisher= University of California Press |year=1952 |page=97}}</ref>
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Jingnan campaign]]: Prince [[Zhu Di]] of Yan leads his troops across the Jia River into the Heibei province.<ref>''Mingjian Gangmu'', Volume 2: 棣將輕騎來覘，掠陣過，庸遣千騎追之</ref> The Ming dynasty [[Jianwen Emperor]] directs that Zhu Di is not to be killed.<ref name=Taizong/>