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=== July&ndash;December ===
* [[July 2]] &ndash; From [[Livorno]], a group of 13 Roman Catholic [[College of Cardinals|Cardinals]] allied with Pope Gregory begins sending encyclical letters "to the princes and prelates of the Christian world" summoning them to the [[Council of Pisa]], to take place on [[March 25]], [[1409]], in order to end the [[Western Schism]].<ref>[http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/1408_Cardinals_Livorno.html Agreement of the Cardinals at Livorno], retrieved: 2017-09-12.</ref>
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Abdul Majid Hassan]], the [[List of sultans of Brunei|Sultan of Brunei]], sets off on a voyage to [[Ming dynasty|China]] at the invitation of the [[Yongle Emperor]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brunei's Sultan Abdul Majid and Chinese Emperor Yongle |url=http://bruneiresources.blogspot.com/2016/08/bruneis-sultan-abdul-majid-and-chinese.html |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=Brunei's Sultan Abdul Majid and Chinese Emperor Yongle}}</ref> and arrives in the capital, [[Nanjing]], by September, becoming the first foreign monarch to make a peaceful visit the Chinese Empire. While visiting, the Sultan becomes ill and dies on October 19.
* [[September 16]] &ndash; Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in [[Hvalsey Church]], in the last recorded event of the [[Norsemen|Norse]] [[history of Greenland]].
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Andronikos Palaiologos (son of Manuel II)|Andronikos Palaiologos]] becomes the new [[Byzantine Emperor]] of [[Thessaloniki|Thessalonica]] after the death of his brother, [[John VIII Palaiologos]]. 
* [[September 23]] &ndash; Henry, [[Prince of Wales]] (later [[Henry V of England]]) retakes [[Aberystwyth]] from [[Owain Glyndŵr]].<ref>Terry Breverton, ''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Owain_Glyndwr/8XGoAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Aberystwyth+September+1408&pg=PT228&printsec=frontcover Owain Glyndwr: The Story of the Last Prince of Wales]'' (Amberley Publishing, 2009)</ref>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Sultan Ahmad of Brunei|Awang Pateh Berbai]], in [[Nanjing]] in [[China]] as part of the family accompanying his nephew, the Sultan [[Abdul Majid Hassan]], becomes the new [[Sultan of Brunei]] when Abdul dies from an illness.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sidhu |first=Jatswan S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bry0sOwstIMC&dq=Sultan+Abdul+Majid+HAssan&pg=PA7 |title=Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam |date=2009-12-22 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7078-9 |language=en |page=7}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; The Antipope Benedict XIII convenes the [[Council of Perpignan]].<ref>Franz Ehrle, ''[https://archive.org/details/archivfrliterat02grgoog ''Archiv fur Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte'' 5 (1889)|Aus den Acten des Afterconcils von Perpignan]'' (1889) pp. 395-397</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; Emir [[Edigu]] of the [[Golden Horde]] reaches Moscow.
* [[December 13]] &ndash; The [[Order of the Dragon]] is founded under King [[Sigismund of Hungary]].