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: ''Also see:'' number 1440.
Year '1440' was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1440

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1440

★ February 21 - The Prussian Confederation is formed.

★ September 13 - Gilles de Rais is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.

★ October 22 - Gilles de Rais confesses and is sentenced to death.

Undated

★ Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Moctezuma I, Moctezuma Ilhuicamina.

★ End of term for Regent of Sweden Karl Knutsson Bonde.

★ Murad II lays siege to Belgrade. The city is heavily damaged, but the defenders' use of artillery prevents the Turks from capturing the city.

★ Eton College is founded by Henry VI.

★ Sir Richard Molyneux appointed constable of Liverpool Castle.

Births

★ January 22 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)

★ February 22 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (died 1457)

★ ''date unknown'' - Kabir, Indian mystic (died 1518)

★ ''probable''

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★ Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (died 1531)

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★ Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (died 1479)

Deaths

★ March 9 - St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (born 1384)

★ March 20 - Sigismund I of Lithuania

★ April 1 (or April 2) Giovanni Vitelleschi, Italian bishop and soldier

★ April 6 - Henry Wardlaw, Scottish church leader

★ September 20 - Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1371)

★ September 30 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician

★ October 26 - Gilles de Rais, French soldier (born 1404)

★ November 13 - Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan