1401: The IBM 1401 was a variable wordlength decimal computer that was announced by IBM on October 5, 1959. (Awitt)
1402: Kosmos 1402 was a Soviet spy satellite that didn't achieve the correct orbit and fell back to Earth in two parts. The first part burned out in the atmosphere, but the radioactive core splashed into the South Atlantic on 7th February, 1983. (AlmondFacialBar)
1403: The Battle of Shrewbury took place in 1403. Henry IV was victorious and the splendidly nicknamed "Hotspur" - Henry Percy - was killed. (Big Martin)
1404: 1404 is a track on the album Autumnsong by the Manic Street Preachers. (ellylles)
1405: Bath Abbey was built in 1405. (Strawberry)
1406: Adobe Acrobat Error 1406 can occur during the installation process under Windows. (AlmondFacialBar)
1407: In the Marvel Comics X-Men, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is at 1407 Graymalkin Lane, Salem Center. (Big Martin)
1408: SOS box 1408A is on the M180 in Humberside, between Scunthorpe and Immingham, quite close to Humberside Airport. 1408B is on the opposite carriageway. (tetsabb)
1409: 1409 hair is a hair salon in Hertfordshire. (Strawberry)
1410: The famous astrological clock in Prague was built in 1410. (Big Martin)
1411: Apparently, whilst it takes just 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off and only 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop, it takes 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways. (ellylles)
1412: The Morso Squirrel 1412 is a woodburning stove approved for use in smokeless zones. (Big Martin)
1413: Texas Farm Road 1413 used to serve the community of Esperson, TX, in Liberty County near Houston. (AlmondFacialBar)
1414: The Oldcastle Revolt of 1414 was a rather disastrous Lollard rising, leading to the execution of its major leader in 1417. (Big Martin)
1415: The Battle of Agincourt took place on 25th October, 1415. (AlmondFacialBar)
1416: The Avaya 1416 digital telephone is designed for users who answer incoming calls, transfer customers to different departments or extensions, and monitor several line appearances throughout the day. (tetsabb)
1417: The major leader of the Oldcastle Revolt was executed in 1417. (PDR)
1418: The 1418 Coffee House is at 1418, K Avenue, Plano, Texas. Someone put a lot of thought and imagination into its name, didn't they? (tetsabb)
1419: Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia and Germany, was born on the 26th of February, 1361. And he died on the 16th of August, 1419. (Strawberry)
1420: GWR locomotive 1420 is preserved on the South Devon Railway. It was part on the 14xx class of 0-4-2 tank locomotives built for operating "push-pull" autocar services on small branch lines. (Big Martin)
1421: Some think that in 1421 the Chinese discovered America. (AlmondFacialBar)
1422: H.R.1422 an amendment to the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978, prohibits federally registered lobbyists from being appointed to the Science Advisory Board. (US) (vanjeet)
1423: The number combination 14/23 is a numeric symbol associated with the Southern Brotherhood, the largest white supremacist prison gang in Alabama. (Posital)
1424: Minuscule 1424 is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament written on 337 parchment leaves from the 9th or 10th century. (Big Martin)
1425: According to a study carried out by the French Society of Music Authors, Composers and Editors (SACEM), the National Centre for Song, Pop and Jazz Music (CNV) and the Current Music Information and Resource Centre (IRMA), in 2013, in addition to the 233 classical/opera music festivals and 314 theater, audiovisual and street art events, 1,425 festivals devoted to current music were held in France. (ellylles)
1426: UL Standard 1426 covers electrical cables for boats. (Big Martin)
1427: In 1427 1.4% of all households in the city of Florence owned over 10000 Florins, which amounted to 29.8% of the city's wealth. (AlmondFacialBar)
1428: Joan of Arc heard her "voices" in 1428. (Big Martin)
1429: 1429 appears to be a beer brewed by the Wittinger brewery. (tetsabb)
1430: The Morse 1430 Squirrel is a multi-fuel stove. (Strawberry)
1431: 1431 is a brand/style of Wendy Ann gown. (Awitt)
1432: The New Holland 1432 is a rotary mower attachment for agricultural tractors. (Big Martin)
1433: 1433 is the default SQL server port number. (vanjeet)
1434: According to the so-titled book by Gavin Menzies, in 1434 a Chinese fleet arrived in Italy and kickstarted the Renaissance. (Big Martin)
1435: Isabeau of Bavaria died on the 24th of September, 1435. (Strawberry)
1436: The B1436 runs for about 4.3 miles (6.9 km) through Norfolk and its route can be seen clearly on Faden's 1779 large-scale map of the county. (ellylles)
1437: In 2012, Bangor Cathedral in North Wales broke with its ancient tradition of only allowing boys and men to sing. For the first time in 1437 years, an all-girl choir lead the services. (ellylles)
1438: PSR J1719-1438 is an extrasolar planet that was discovered on August 25, 2011 in orbit around PSR J1719-1438, a millisecond pulsar. (Strawberry)
1439: On June 29th 1439 the Venerable Macarius performed the Miracle of the Moose. (Big Martin)
1440: There are 1,440 minutes in one calendar day. (PDR)
1441: The 1441 Foundation aids King's College Cambridge and takes its title from the year the college was founded by Henry VI. (Big Martin)
1442: On the 8th November 2014, the Washington Post published a list of the 1,442 items turned over to Metro's lost-and-found department in October. (ellylles)
1443: Pope Julius II was born on the 5th of December, 1443. (Strawberry)
1444: In June 2023 the Antiquities Advisory Board carried out an assessment of 1,444 historic buildings in Hong Kong. (bemahan)
1445: Botticelli is believed to have been born in 1445. (Big Martin)
1446: Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples, died on the 9th of May, 1446. (Strawberry)
1447: Lounge 1447 is a hosting facility for customers at the Design Center in Chicago. (Big Martin)
1448: Andreas Walsperger's world map from 1448 is oriented with South at the top. (ellylles)
1449: LD 1449 is a fanfic author who has written several stories for Naruto, Inuyasha, Star Wars, Justice League, Halo, Warhammer, A song of Ice and Fire, among others. (Awitt)
1450: John Cabot, who sailed from Bristol to discover Newfoundland, was born in 1450. (Big Martin)
1451: Sultan Mehmed II inherited the throne of the Ottoman Empire in 1451. (franticllama)
1452: In March 1452 Frederick III became the last Holy Roman Emperor to actually have a coronation in Rome. (Big Martin)
1453: The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire on Tuesday, the 29th of May, 1453. (Strawberry)
1454: The Gutenberg Bible was first printed in 1454. (Big Martin)
1456: On the 7th of July, 1456, a retrial acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. (Strawberry)
1457: The Hammond 1457 is a type of extruded aluminium watertight box, with optional flanges. (tetsabb)
1458: 1458 is the post code of Fjellstrand in Norway. (AlmondFacialBar)
1459: On November 20, 1459, the 'war of the roses' between the houses of York and Lancaster increased. (Awitt)
1460: Dr Marten's 1460 boot is marketed as their "classic" boot. (Big Martin)
1461: 1461 Trabzon are a footie club associated with Trabzonspor and play in the Turkish 2A league. (AlmondFacialBar)
1462: Title 18 USC 1462 makes it illegal to send or receive pornography (book, picture, magazine, film, audio etc) across a state border within the USA or into the USA from outside. It also makes it illegal to supply drugs or utensils to be used for abortions, or any information on from where or how such might be obtained or manufactured. (PDR)
1463: Roadstuds on public roads in the UK are governed by BSEN1463. (Big Martin)
1464: On the 30th of August, 1464, Pope Paul II succeeded Pope Pius II as the 211th pope. (Strawberry)
1465: The New South Wales, Australia, postcode 1465 is reserved for such things as competition entries and Government departments. (Awitt)
1466: Erasmus "the crowning glory of Christian humanists" was born in either Rotterdam or possibly Gouda in 1466. (Big Martin)
1467: ATX-MS-1467 is a possible multiple sclerosis drug from Merck that is currently at the clinical trial stage. (AlmondFacialBar)
1468: The last Gascon Rolls were drawn up in 1468. For much of the later Middle Ages, south-western France (Aquitaine) was under English rule. Every year from 1273 a "Gascon roll" was drawn up by the English royal administration, recording a wide range of business and mentioning many people and places. The rolls were continued until 1468 even though the area was lost by the English in 1453, and are to be found today in The National Archives at Kew in class C 61. (ellylles)
1469: 1469 is an India-based lifestyle brand with an incredibly pretentious mission statement. (AlmondFacialBar)
1470: In 1470, Johann Heynlin introduced the printing press and printed his first book that same year. (Strawberry)
1471: 1471 is the number to dial in the UK to find out who last phoned you. (Big Martin)
1472: On the 31st of December, 1472, the city council of Amsterdam prohibited snowball fights. (Strawberry)
1473: This is xkcd comic 1473. If you still find me laughing two weeks from now, please get me to the A&E. (AlmondFacialBar)
1474: 147:4 is one of God's cleverer party tricks. "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names." (Psalm 147, v. 4) Unfortunately it does require his attention is briefly removed from other possibly more important routines, but it never ceases to impress the faithful. (otyikondo)
1475: Anno 1475 is a medieval-style tavern in Landshut, Bavaria. (AlmondFacialBar)
1476: Salon 1476 is a hairdresser's in Bournemouth. (Strawberry)
1477: Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy was killed by a blow from a Swiss halberd to his head at the battle of Nancy in 1477. This event led to the collapse of the independent state of Burgundy soon after. (Big Martin)
1478: 1-4-7-8 is a surprisingly common four-digit doorcode outside apartment buildings, possibly because on a normal keypad with 1 at top left, it forms the letter L. (otyikondo)
1479: On the 13th of May, 1479, Christopher Columbus, an experienced mariner and successful trader in the thriving Genoese expatriate community in Portugal, married Felipa Perestrelo Moniz (Italian on her father's side) and received as dowry her late father's maps and papers charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands and other Portuguese possessions. (Strawberry)
1480: The Profil 1480 is a two-auger vertical TMR mixer from Kuhn Farm Machinery. (A high-tech trailer for feeding cattle, basically.) (AlmondFacialBar)
1481: The 1481 Grille is in Arlington, South Dakota. From the website it actually appears to be a "grill" rather than a "grille" by my understanding of the words, however. (Big Martin)
1482: The 1482 is a model of sink, made by a company called 'Decolav'. Colours available appear to be limited to white. (tetsabb)
1483: Martin Luther was born on 10th November, 1483. I actually remember that from learning it in primary school. Good old German Lutheran upbringing... (AlmondFacialBar)
1484: Kosmos 1484, also known as Resurs-OE No.3-2 was a Soviet prototype Earth imaging satellite, launched in 1983 as part of the Resurs programme. It was a prototype of the Meteor-derived Resurs-O1 spacecraft, which paved the way for the first Resurs-O1 to fly in October 1985. (Strawberry)
1485: Richard III was killed at the battle of Bosworth in 1485, bringing to an end the long line of Plantagenet kings of England. He ended up buried under a car park which, considering cars weren't going to be invented for nearly another 400 years, was quite some forethought! (Yes, that last bit is a rather feeble attempt to be funny). (Big Martin)
1486: In 1486, the Medici giraffe arrived in Florence. (Strawberry)
1487: In 1487, bell chimes were invented. In some churches they play not only right before the hour, but also on the half, quarter and even the eighth of an hour. (sismologue)
1488: MIL-STD-1488 is the standard which provides standardized provisions for evaluating the quality of trousers procured for and used by the US Military. Although now unclassified at revision G, its original Revision A carried a classification which included a "US Eyes Only" constraint. So there was a time when the quality of US Army trousers was a military secret... (PDR)
1489: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born on the 2nd of July, 1489. (Strawberry)
1490: 1490 is the model number for what could be termed the 'classic' Dr Martens boot -- 10 eyelets for laces. (tetsabb)
1491: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. (Strawberry)
1492: The papal conclave of 1492 is famous for being the first to be held in the Sistine Chapel, and also for infamous election of Pope Alexander VI, who was believed to have bought the votes of his electors. (vanjeet)
1493: 1493 is the largest known Stern Prime. (vanjeet)
1494: EN 1494 specifies the technical safety requirements of mobile or movable jacks and associated lifting equipment. (AlmondFacialBar)
1495: On June 1 1495, Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of Scotch Whisky. (Big Martin)
1496: LM1496 is a modulator demodulator IC that produces an output voltage proportional to the product of the input voltage and a carrier signal. (vanjeet)
1497: Chess record label recording 1497 was from 1951, Howlin' Wolf, and his rendition of The Wolf is at your door, along with Howlin' Wolf Boogie. Recorded at Memphis Recording Service, later known as Sun Studio, where, a few years later, some chap called Presley started his recording career. (tetsabb)
1498: Leonardo da Vinci put the finishing touches to The Last Supper in 1498. (vanjeet)
1499: NGC 1499 is also known as the California Nebula and is a faint emission nebula in the constellation Perseus. It lies at a distance of about 1500 light years in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy and is about 100 light years in length. The name of the nebula is attributed to the resemblance of its shape to the State of California. (ellylles)
1500: The 2015 model of the Dodge Ram 1500 was advertised as Canada's most fuel-efficient pick up truck. (AlmondFacialBar)
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