1434

1434 (MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1434th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 434th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1430s decade. As of the start of 1434, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s  1410s  1420s  – 1430s –  1440s  1450s  1460s
Years:	1431 1432 1433 – 1434 – 1435 1436 1437

1434 in other 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) 4130 or 4070     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4131 or 4071
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

• April 14, The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid.
• May 30, Battle of Lipany in the Hussite Wars
• Jan van Eyck paints the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini
• Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara. In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
• Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia

1434 in other 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) 4130 or 4070     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4131 or 4071
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

Births

• March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (died 1443)
• September 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (died 1478)
  • probable
  • Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; died 1494)
  • Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (died 1530)

Deaths

• 30 May
  • Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
  • Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
• June 11 – King Wladislaus II of Poland
• June 19 – Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
• November 12 – King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
• date unknown
  • John I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1381)
  • Amda Iyasus, Emperor of Ethiopia