1436

Year '1436' was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1436

Births

Deaths

Events of 1436

★ April - Paris is recaptured by the French.

★ 25 June - Incorporated Guild of Smiths is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.

★ July 5 - Effective end of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. Sigismund is accepted as King.

★ Alexandru I Aldea is replaced as ruler of Wallachia by Vlad II Dracul.

★ The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence is consecrated.

★ First document mentioning the Bosnian language.

★ Date of the Visokom papers (on Visoki), the last direct sources of the old town of Visoki.

Births

★ January 26 - Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, Lancastrian military commander during the English Wars of the Roses (died 1464)

★ June 6 - Regiomontanus, German astronomer (died 1476)

★ November 16 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (died 1521)

★ November 26 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Isabella of Bourbon, wife of Charles the Bold (died 1465)

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★ Sheikh Hamdullah, Arabic calligrapher (died 1520)

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★ Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish Cardinal and statesman (died 1517)

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★ Hernando del Pulgar, Spanish writer

Deaths

★ May 4 - Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman and rebel leader (born 1390; murdered)

★ October 8 - Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (born 1401)

★ December 30 - Louis III, Elector Palatine (born 1378)

★ ''date unknown'' - Qazi Zadeh, Persian mathematician (born 1364)