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| Gregorian calendar | 1434 MCDXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2187 |
| Armenian calendar | 883 ԹՎ ՊՁԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6184 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1355–1356 |
| Bengali calendar | 841 |
| Berber calendar | 2384 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Hen. 6 – 13 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1978 |
| Burmese calendar | 796 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6942–6943 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4131 or 3924 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4132 or 3925 |
| Coptic calendar | 1150–1151 |
| Discordian calendar | 2600 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1426–1427 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5194–5195 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1490–1491 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1355–1356 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4534–4535 |
| Holocene calendar | 11434 |
| Igbo calendar | 434–435 |
| Iranian calendar | 812–813 |
| Islamic calendar | 837–838 |
| Japanese calendar | Eikyō 6 (永享６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1349–1350 |
| Julian calendar | 1434 MCDXXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3767 |
| Minguo calendar | 478 before ROC 民前478年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −34 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1976–1977 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1560 or 1179 or 407 — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1561 or 1180 or 408 |
Year 1434 (MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- April 14 – The foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral in Nantes, Brittany, is laid.[1]
- May 30 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Utraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.[2]
- June 19 or 20 – Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.[3]
- Late June – Miner Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson begins a Swedish rebellion against King Eric of Pomerania (named the Engelbrekt rebellion after him), eventually leading to the deposition of the king.
- July 10–August 9 – Suero de Quiñones and his companions stage the Passo Honroso, at the Órbigo in León.
- August 16 – King Eric of Pomerania is deposed from the Swedish throne at a meeting in Vadstena. He still retains power in Denmark and Norway, though.
- September – Cosimo de' Medici returns to Florence, one year after being exiled by the Albizzi and Strozzi faction.[4]
- October 21 – The University of Catania is founded in Italy.[5]
Date unknown
[edit]- Jan van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Portrait.[6]
- Explorer Gil Eanes rounds Cape Bojador in Western Sahara, thus destroying the legends of the "Dark Sea".
- In Ming Dynasty China, a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout the country, until 1448.
- The Puke Feud occurs in Sweden.
Births
[edit]- January 7 – Adolf, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1441)
- March 12 – William III, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1480)
- March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1443)
- March 25 – Eustochia Smeralda Calafato, Italian saint (d. 1485)
- June 13 – Cristoforo della Rovere, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1478)
- September 18 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)[7]
- September 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess consort of Savoy (d. 1478)
- December 28 – Antonio Grimani, Italian admiral (d. 1523)
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- Isabella of Bourbon, Burgundian countess, spouse of Charles the Bold (d. 1465)
- Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (d. 1494)
- Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (d. 1530)
Deaths
[edit]- January – John I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1381)[8]
- April 20 – Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
- May 30 – Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
- June – Amda Iyasus, Emperor of Ethiopia[9]
- June 1 – King Wladislaus II of Poland (age unknown)[10]
- June 5 – Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
- November 12 – King Louis III of Anjou (b. 1403)
References
[edit]- ^ Kibler, William W.; Zinn, Grover A. (1995). Earp, Lawrence; Henneman, Jr., John Bell (eds.). Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Psychology Press. p. 772. ISBN 9780824044442.
- ^ Hugh LeCaine Agnew (2004). The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Hoover Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8179-4492-6.
- ^ Carlo Zaghi (1973). L'Africa nella coscienza europea e l'imperialismo italiano (in Italian). Guida.
- ^ Randolph Starn (January 1, 1982). Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. University of California Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-520-04615-3.
- ^ The Universities of Italy: Fascist University Groups. Printing works of the Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche. 1934. p. 187.
- ^ Edwin Hall (January 1, 1997). The Arnolfini Betrothal: Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck's Double Portrait. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21221-3.
- ^ Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2000). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-7876-4064-4.
- ^ Le Correspondant: religion, philosophie, politique (in French). V.-A. Waille. 1872. p. 911.
- ^ British Museum. Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts; William Wright (1877). Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired Since the Year 1847. British Museum. p. 7.
- ^ Sedlar, Jean W. (1994), East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500, Seattle: University of Washington Press, p. 388, ISBN 978-0-295-97290-9