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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XII]] officially opens the [[Council of Constance]], and then abdicates.<ref name=Mandell>Mandell Creighton, ''A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation: The Great Schism. The Council of Constance. 1378-1418'' (Longmans, Green 1882) p.362</ref> He is the last pope to resign, until [[Pope Benedict XVI]] in [[2013]].
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Jan Hus]] is [[burned at the stake]] in [[Konstanz]].
* [[July 18]] &ndash; Sigismund, King of the Romans, departs from the meeting of the [[Council of Constance]] on a special trip to [[Perpignan]], in order to secure the resignation of the antipope Benedict XIII in order to end the Western Schism, and then to try to end the wars between France and England, and Poland and the Teutonic Knights.<ref name=Mandell/> 
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Henry V of England]] is informed of the [[Southampton Plot]] against him; he has the leaders arrested and executed, before invading [[France]].
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Conquest of Ceuta]]: [[Portugal]] conquers the city of [[Ceuta]] from the [[Moors]], initiating the [[Portuguese Empire]], and [[Europe]]an expansion and [[colonialism]].
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Sigismund, King of the Germans]], who convened the [[Council of Constance]], meets in Spain with the antipope Benedict XIII, and makes an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Benedict to resign.<ref name=Mandell/>