1425

Year 1425 (MCDXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s
Years:	1422 1423 1424 1425 1426 1427 1428

1425 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1425 MCDXXV
Ab urbe condita	2178
Armenian calendar	874 ԹՎ ՊՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	6175
Balinese saka calendar	1346–1347
Bengali calendar	832
Berber calendar	2375
English Regnal year	3 Hen. 6 – 4 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1969
Burmese calendar	787
Byzantine calendar	6933–6934
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4122 or 3915     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4123 or 3916
Coptic calendar	1141–1142
Discordian calendar	2591
Ethiopian calendar	1417–1418
Hebrew calendar	5185–5186
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1481–1482
- Shaka Samvat	1346–1347
- Kali Yuga	4525–4526
Holocene calendar	11425
Igbo calendar	425–426
Iranian calendar	803–804
Islamic calendar	828–829
Japanese calendar	Ōei 32 (応永３２年)
Javanese calendar	1339–1341
Julian calendar	1425 MCDXXV
Korean calendar	3758
Minguo calendar	487 before ROC 民前487年
Nanakshahi calendar	−43
Thai solar calendar	1967–1968
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1551 or 1170 or 398     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1552 or 1171 or 399

Events

• November 9 – Kale Kye-Taung Nyo becomes King of Ava by having his lover, Queen Shin Bo-Me, assassinate his 8-year-old nephew, King Min Hla.
• December 9 – The Old University of Leuven, Belgium is founded.
• Date unknown
  • The Maltese people rise up against Don Gonsalvo Monroy, count of Malta. The insurgents repel an attempt by the Viceroy of Sicily to bring the island to order. The Maltese do not submit to Catalan-Aragonese rule, until the Magna Charta Libertatis, granting them their new rights, is delivered to them.
  • Beijing, capital of China, becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Nanjing (estimated date).^[1]
  • By this year, paper currency in China is worth only 0.025% to 0.014% of its original value in the 14th century; this, and the counterfeiting of copper coin currency, will lead to a dramatic shift to using silver as the common medium of exchange in China.
  • Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi's critical history of Persia, Zafar Nama, is completed under the auspices of Mirza Ibrahim Sultan, grandson of Timur.

Creation of the KU Leuven ^[2]

Births

• January 5 – Henry IV of Castile (d. 1474)
• March 21 – Henry Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick, English nobleman (d. 1446)
• March 31 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
• April 30 – William III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1445–1482) and Duke of Luxembourg (1457–1482) (d. 1482)
• October 14 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (d. 1499)
• November 18 – Kunigunde of Sternberg, first spouse of King George of Podebrady (d. 1449)
• date unknown
  • Edmund Sutton, English nobleman (d. 1483)
  • Krokodeilos Kladas, Greek military leader (d. 1490)
  • Xicotencatl I, ruler of Tizatlan (in modern-day Mexico) (d. 1522)

Deaths

• January 18 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
• February 27 – Prince Vasily I of Moscow (b. 1371)
• March 17 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1407)
• May 24 – Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)
• May 29 – Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
• July 8 – Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noble (b. 1366)
• July 21 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
• August 22 – Eleanor, Princess of Asturias (b. 1423)
• September 8 – King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
• date unknown
  • Madhava of Sangamagrama, Indian mathematician (b. 1350)
  • Margareta, Swedish Sami missionary (b. 1369)
  • Yi Jong Mu, Korean general (b. 1360)
  • Parameshvara, Indian mathematician (b. 1360)

References

1. "Geography". about.com. Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2006.
2. https://www.kuleuven.be/kuleuven