1434

Year 1434 (MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s
Years:	1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437

1434 in various calendars

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

Events

January–December

• 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

• 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

• 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)
• probable
  • 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

• 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

1. Kibler, William W.; Zinn, Grover A. (1995). Earp, Lawrence; Henneman, Jr., John Bell (eds.). Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Psychology Press. p. 772. ISBN 9780824044442.
2. Hugh LeCaine Agnew (2004). The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Hoover Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8179-4492-6.
3. Carlo Zaghi (1973). L'Africa nella coscienza europea e l'imperialismo italiano (in Italian). Guida.
4. 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.
5. The Universities of Italy: Fascist University Groups. Printing works of the Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche. 1934. p. 187.
6. 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.
7. Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2000). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-7876-4064-4.
8. Le Correspondant: religion, philosophie, politique (in French). V.-A. Waille. 1872. p. 911.
9. 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.
10. 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