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The Compromise of Caspe elects a successor to Aragon's late Martin I (see 1410). Catalans support a rival contender, but the Aragonese antipope Benedict XIII, Vincent Ferrer, and others secure the election of a 31-year-old Castilian prince who 2 years ago captured the Muslim fortress of Antequera in Granada and is known as el infante de Antequera. He will reign until 1416 as Ferdinand I.
Margarethe of Denmark dies suddenly October 28 at age 59 aboard her ship in Flensborg harbor. Her grandnephew Erik VII of Pomerania married a daughter of England's Henry IV Plantagenet in October 1406 and continues his reign as Erik VII of Denmark and Norway (Erik III of Norway, Erik XIII of Sweden), but the death of the "lady king" (as delegates from Lübeck have called her) begins a long period of dissension as Erik assumes personal power at age 30 and begins an oppressive rule that will cost him all three thrones (see 1413).
Milan's Giovanni Maria Visconti is assassinated at age 24. His 20-year-old brother Filippo Maria becomes the duchy's third duke and will rule alone until his death in 1447.
The Chinese admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) leaves on a third expedition that will take him as far as the Hormuz Straits, gateway to the Persian Gulf (see 1408; 1416).
The University of Turin founded 7 years ago in Piedmont gains permission from the German king Sigismund of Luxembourg to be a studium generale and next year will have that permission confirmed by the antipope John XXIII.
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