January–March •
January 1 – •
Yusuf IV is placed on the throne as the new
Sultan of Granada, after
Muhammad IX is deposed with the support of
King Juan II of
Castile and
Leon. Yusuf dies later in the year and Muhammad IX is restored to the throne a third time •
Iliaș succeeds his father as Prince of
Moldavia. •
January 6 – The
siege of Pouancé is undertaken by
John V, Duke of Brittany, against his nephew
Jean II, Duke of Alençon, as part of a conflict involving the payment of a
dowry. The siege lasts until February 22 when Alençon surrenders. •
February 13 – The tall
Statue of Gommateshwara is consecrated by King Veera Pandya in the Indian city of
Karkala, capital of the
Vijayanagara Empire and now part of the
Karnataka state. •
March 5 – The Treaty of
Rennes is signed between the Kingdom of France (led by
King Charles VII and the Duchy of Brittany (led by the Duke
Arthur III. •
March 7 – The
seventh Ming Chinese overseas expedition fleet, led by Admiral
Zheng He, arrives at the port of
Surabaya on the island of
Java (now in
Indonesia). The Chinese do trading until leaving on July 13 •
March 29 – Venetian General
Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola is arrested in Venice after reporting to a meeting with the
Council of Ten and the Venetian Doge
Tommaso Mocenigo. The Doge dies five days later.
April–June •
April 15 –
Francesco Foscari is elected as the new
Doge of the
Republic of Venice, defeating the other candidate,
Admiral Pietro Loredan, and becomes the longest serving Venetian chief executive, presiding for more than 34 years. •
April 26 – At
Philippopolis in the Ottoman Empire (now
Plovdiv in
Bulgaria,
Mercimek Ahmed completes his translation of the
Qabus-nama from the
Persian language into
Turkish. •
May 5 – With the Tommaso Mocenigo, Doge of Venice, no longer able to protect him, General Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola is beheaded in prison. •
May 6 –
Jan van Eyck's
Ghent Altarpiece is first presented to the public. •
May 12 – The new
English Parliament session is opened at
Westminster by the regents for King
Henry VI of England, and
Sir John Russell is elected by his peers as
Speaker of the House of Commons. •
June 1 – In the
battle of San Romano, fought in Italy only from the capital at
Florence, the
Republic of Florence cavalry and infantry, led by General
Niccolò da Tolentino defeat the army of the
Republic of Siena, led by
Francesco Piccinino. The Renaissance painter
Paolo Uccello later commemorates the event in a
triptych painting. •
June 29 – At
Nicosia John II becomes
King of Cyprus upon the death of his father,
King Janus.
July–September •
July 17 – The English Parliament closes its session at
Westminster.
Royal assent is given in the King's name to the
Electors of Knights of the Shire Act 1432 ("Certain things required in him who shall be a chooser of the knights of the parliament"), the Appearance of Plaintiffs Act (setting "the penalty of him that maketh a false entry, that the plaintiff doth offer himself in person, where his doth not") and the Exportation Act ("All wools and woolfells that shall be carried to any other place than to
Calais, shall be forfeited to the King and the finder.") •
August 3 – The Ming Chinese expedition arrives at
Malacca in what is now
Malaysia and stays until September 2. The Caliph of
Ifriqiya,
Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II, attempts to defend the island. but the Aragonese take control of Djerba by September 9. •
August 31 –
Sigismund Kęstutaitis attempts the capture or murder of
Švitrigaila, his rival for the throne of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Švitrigaila manages to escape. •
September 1 – With the departure of Švitrigaila,
Sigismund Kęstutaitis is installed as the new Grand Duke of Lithuania. •
September 9 – The
Ses of Aragon defeating the soldiers of Ifriqiya. •
September 12 – The Ming Chinese expedition reaches the
Samudera Pasai Sultanate on
Sumatra (now part of Indonesia) and establishes trade agreements with the
Sultan Zainal Abidin II, remaining at
Pasai until November 2.
October–December •
October 25 – Grand Duke Sigismund of Lithuania signs a document at
Grodno (now part of
Belarus swearing his loyalty to Poland. •
November 12 –
Pope Eugenius IV authorizes Cardinal
Giuliano Cesarini to close the
Council of Basel, but Cesarini declines to do so. •
November 19 – At the
Battle of Delebio,
Niccolò Piccinino, leader of
Milanese Army defeats the Venetian troops of
Taddeo d'Este after a two-day battle in which more than 5,300 Venetian cavalry and infantry are killed. •
November 28 – The Ming Chinese expedition lands at the island of
Sri Lanka, coming ashore at
Beruwala at the
Kingdom of Kotte, ruled by
Parakramabahu VI, but departs for India four days later. •
December 10 – The Ming Chinese expedition stops briefly at the
Calicut Kingdom (now part of the
Kerala state of India) and leaves on December 14 to sail westward across the
Indian Ocean toward the island of
Hormuz. • The first
baccalaureate service is believed to have originated at the
University of Oxford. • Spring – An
Albanian revolt, led by
Gjergj Arianit Komneni, breaks out against the
Ottoman Empire, and spreads through most of Albania. == Births ==