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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Ming–Việt War]]: China conquers [[Đông Đô|Dong Do]], the eastern capital of [[Dai Ngu]] (now [[Hanoi]], capital of [[Vietnam]], and follows six days later by conquering the western capital, Tay Do (now [[Thanh Hóa]]) on January 26.<ref name=Ming-Viet>{{Cite book |title=Ancient Southeast Asia |author1-link=John N. Miksic |last1=Miksic |first1=John Norman |last2=Yian |first2=Goh Geok |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |page=524 |isbn=978-0415735544}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Ming–Việt War]]: [[Hồ Nguyên Trừng]], commander of the Vietnamese armada of 500 ships, launches a counterattack on invading Chinese  ships on the [[Thai Binh River]], but the Chinese forces use [[cannon]]s to destroy the Viet fleet, killing as many as 10,000 of the defending forces.<ref name=Sun>{{citation |surname=Sun |given=Laichen |chapter=Chinese Gunpowder Technology and Đại Việt, ca. 1390–1497 |title=Viet Nam: Borderless Histories |editor-given1=Anthony |editor-surname1=Reid |editor-given2=Nhung Tuyet |editor-surname2=Tran |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |year=2006 |pages=79–83 |isbn=978-1-316-44504-4}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Pir Muhammad (son of Jahangir)|Pir Muhammad Mirza]], co-ruler of the [[Timurid Empire]] (Transoxiana) that encompasses what is now [[Iran]] and most of the [[Near East]] of Asia, is murdered by his [[vizier]], Pir Ali Taz.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fY01Tc2SZVEC|title=The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6|author=Peter Jackson, Lawrence Lockhart|year=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521246996|pages=98–99|access-date=2013-01-02}}</ref> He is succeeded by his cousin, [[Khalil Sultan]], who becomes the sole ruler of Transoxiana until being overthrown in [[1409]].