Events of 1416

• January 27 – The Republic of Dubrovnik is the first state in Europe to outlaw slavery.

• May 30 – The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.

• Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge (the longest arch bridge in the world at the time) is destroyed.

Births

• March 27 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)

• October 26 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490)

• date unknown

• *Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (d. 1470)

• *Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)

• *Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1469)

• probable – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (d. 1472)

Deaths

• February 27 – Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of Navarre (b. c. 1363)

• March 15 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)

• April 2 – King Ferdinand I of Aragon (b. 1379)

• May 21 – Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (b. 1386)

• May 30 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)

• December 3 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

• ? – Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh Prince and leader of the Welsh Revolt