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Year '1434' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1434

Births

Deaths

Events of 1434

★ 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

Births

★ March 19 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (died 1443)

★ September 23 - Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (died 1478)

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★ ''probable''

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★ Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; died 1494)

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★ Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (died 1530)

Deaths

★ 30 May

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★ Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)

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★ 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''

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★ John I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1381)

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★ Amda Iyasus, Emperor of Ethiopia