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Year '1431' was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1431

Births

Deaths

Events of 1431

★ January 9 - Pretrial investigations for Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France under English occupation.

★ March 3 - Pope Eugene IV succeeds Pope Martin V as the 207th pope

★ March 26 - The trial of Joan of Arc begins.

★ May 30 - 19-year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.

★ September - Battle of Inverlochy

★ Foundation of University of Poitiers

★ The Thai sack the Khmer capital of Angkor Thom.

Births

★ January 1 - Pope Alexander VI (died 1503)

★ November/December Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (died 1476)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ William Elphinstone, Scottish statesman (died 1514)

★ ''probable''

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★ William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (died 1483)

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★ John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, English politician (died 1471)

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★ François Villon, French poet

Deaths

★ January 25 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (born 1364)

★ February 20 - Pope Martin V (born 1368)

★ April 1 - Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese mystic

★ April 5 - Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (born 1364)

★ May 30 - Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint (born c. 1412)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Makhdoom Ali Mahimi, Indian Sufi mystic

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★ Stanisław of Skarbimierz, Polish theologian (born 1360)