1410 - Definition and Overview

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.

Births

• Conrad Paumann German organist and composer, blind from birth

Deaths

• March 16 – John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset.
• Princess Beatrice of Portugal, Queen consort of Castile