1427

Year '1427' was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1427

Births

Deaths

Events of 1427

★ August 4 - Hussite Wars: Battle of Tachov The Hussites decisively beat the crusader armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.

★ August 17 - First band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.

★ Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.

★ Balsics rule of Montenegro comes to an end.

★ Bhaktapur Royal Palace in Nepal is built by King Yaksa Malla.

★ Gabriel V elected Patriarch of the Coptic Church for the second time.

★ Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava (''ancient Burma'').

★ Conflict of Druimnacour in Sutherland, Scotland.

★ First witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.

★ Celestine Order established in France.

★ Celebration of ''Sant Jordi'' (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he would later become its patron saint).

★ Bremen is expelled from the Hanseatic League.

★ Diogo de Silves, portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.

Births

★ September 9 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (died 1464)

★ October 14 - Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (died 1499)

★ October 26 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (died 1496)

★ November 29 - Zhengtong Emperor of China (died 1464)

★ November 30 - Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (died 1492)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (d. 1509)

Deaths

★ April 17 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)

★ May 7 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman

★ August 27 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr (born 1395)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Chimalpopoca, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (born 1397)

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★ Qu You, Chinese novelist (born 1341)

★ ''probable''

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★ Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (born 1350)

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★ Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter