1430

Year '1430' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1430

Births

Deaths

See also

Events of 1430

★ May 14 - First French attempts to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.

★ May 23 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.

★ June 14 - William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.

★ The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians.

★ Order of the Golden Fleece is founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage.

★ Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund of Luxemburg.

★ Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin as ruler of Lithuania.

★ First use of optical methods in the creation of Art.

★ Janissaries are created.

Births

★ October 16 - King James II of Scotland (died 1460)

★ October 28 - Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English politician (died 1475)

★ ''date unknown'' - Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord

★ ''probable'' - Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (died 1505)

Deaths

★ January 29? - Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (born 1360)

★ August 14 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)

★ August 18 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)

★ October 27 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Prince of Lithuania (born 1352)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Thomas FitzAlan, English nobleman

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★ Christine de Pizan, proto-feminist writer

See also

★ List of state leaders in 1430