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=== July&ndash;December ===
* [[October 5]] &ndash; A group of high officials of the former Vietnamese government are put on trial before China's Yongle Emperor at [[Nanjing]], and charged with treason for killing the previous Vietnamese ruler. Most of the prisoners are executed.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tsai |first=Shih-shan Henry |title=Perpetual happiness: The Ming emperor Yongle |year=2011 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |page=181 |isbn=978-0-295-98109-3}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] &ndash; The English Parliament is opened at [[Gloucester]] after being summoned on August 26 by King Henry IV, and is marked by arguments between the House of Lords and the House of Commons over primacy and initiation of money bills.<ref>H.G. Richardson and G. Sayles, ''Rotuli Parliamentorum '', Volume II (Royal Historical Society, 1935), pp.608–610</ref>
* [[November 20]] &ndash; A solemn truce  is agreed upon between [[John the Fearless]], [[Duke of Burgundy]] and [[Louis I, Duke of Orléans]] under the auspices of [[John, Duke of Berry]].
* [[November 23]] &ndash; The Duke of Orleans is assassinated, and war breaks out again between the [[Burgundians]] and the Duke's followers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Duke of Orleans is Ambushed {{!}} History Today |url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/duke-orleans-ambushed |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=www.historytoday.com}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; 
**China's [[Yongle Emperor]] sends an order to Marquis Zhang Fu, who had recently conquered Vietnam and executed many of its officials, to avoid harming any innocent Vietnamese civilians.<ref>{{cite web |translator=Geoff Wade |title=Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource |url=http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/entry/1078?hl=%22Jiao-zhi%22 |location=Singapore |publisher=Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore |page=1014 |access-date=July 6, 2014 |archive-date=March 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327185337/http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/entry/1078?hl=%22Jiao-zhi%22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**The English Parliament closes after having met for six weeks.
* [[December]] &ndash; The ''[[Yongle Encyclopedia]]'', until the 21st century the largest encyclopedia of history, is completed in China after four years of work by 2,169 scholars at the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial University.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chan |first=Hok-lam |author-link=Chan Hok-lam |title=The Cambridge History of China Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1988 |isbn=0521243327 |editor-last=Mote |editor-first=Frederick W. |editor-link=Frederick W. Mote |location=Cambridge |page=220 |chapter=The Chien-wen, Yung-lo, Hung-hsi, and Hsüan-te reigns |editor-last2=Twitchett |editor-first2=Denis C |editor-link2=Denis Twitchett}}</ref>