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1410 - Events

• July 15 – Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris). Polish-Lithuanian forces under the cousins Władysław Jagiełło of Poland and Witowt of Lithuania decisively defeat the forces of the Teutonic Knights, whose power is broken
• Jan Hus is excommunicated by the Archbishop of Prague.

1410 - Births

• William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (died 1484)
• Johannes Ockeghem, Dutch composer (approximate date; died 1497)
• Conrad Paumann, German organist and composer (approximate date; died 1473)
• Masuccio Salernitano, Italian poet (died 1475)
• Vecchietta, Sienese painter, sculptor and architect (approximate date; died 1480)

1410 - Deaths

• March 16 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
• May 3 - Pope Alexander V
• May 31 - King Martin I of Aragon (born 1356)
• July 15 - Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (born 1360)
• Beatrice of Portugal, queen of John I of Castile (born 1372)
• John Badby, English martyr
• Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1337)
• John Gower, English poet (born 1330)
• Isabella of Valois, Princess of France (born 1387)
• Matthew of Krakow, Polish reformer (born 1335)
• Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (born 1352)

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