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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The [[Wales|Welsh]] surrender [[Harlech Castle]] to the [[Kingdom of England|English]].
* [[January 18]] &ndash; The [[Decree of Kutná Hora]] strengthens the Bohemian Nation at the cost of foreign, mostly German speaking students at the [[Charles University|University of Prague]]. Over a thousand students leave Prague as a consequence, choosing instead the universities of Heidelberg and the new University of Leipzig established later in the year.    
* [[February 15]] &ndash; The [[Galle Trilingual Inscription]], with inscriptions in three languages ([[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and [[Persian language|Persian]]) is installed by the Chinese admiral [[Zheng He]] at [[Galle]] in [[Sri Lanka]], where he had stopped while on his way home during the second of his [[Ming treasure voyages|treasure voyages]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Dreyer |first=Edward L. |title=Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433 |year=2007 |publisher=Pearson Longman |location=New York |isbn=978-0321084439 |author-link=Edward L. Dreyer |page=66}}</ref>    
* [[February 24]] &ndash; Traveling in [[Valencia]] in [[Crown of Aragon|Aragon]], Father [[Joan Gilabert Jofré]], known as "Padre Jofré", witnesses a mentally ill man being beaten by two young attackers. After rescuing the victim, Jofré resolves to create the Hospital dels Ignoscents, the world's first psychiatric hospital.<ref>[http://www.aciprensa.com/noticia.php?n=15666 "Concluye fase diocesana del proceso de canonización del Padre Jofré" (in Spanish; "Diocesan stage of canonization of Padre Jofre Completed") publ. ACI, February 8, 2007], accessed July 11, 2011</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; On the day of the [[Feast of the Annunciation]], the [[Council of Pisa]] opens at the [[Cathedral of Pisa]] with 22 cardinals, four patriarchs and 80 bishops to seek an end to the [[Western Schism]] and resolve the conflict between [[Pope Gregory XII]] of the [[Rome]] and [[Antipope Benedict XIII]] of [[Avignon]].<ref>J. D. Mansi, ''[http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/20vs/200_Mansi/1692-1769,_Mansi_JD,_Sacrorum_Conciliorum_Nova_Amplissima_Collectio_Vol_027,_LT.pdf Tomus XXVII|Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio]'' (Venice: Antonius Zatta 1784), p.115</ref>