1441

:''This page is about the year 1441. See UN Security Council Resolution 1441 for the 2002 call for Iraq to disclose its WMD.''
Year '1441' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1441

Births

Deaths

Events of 1441

★ King's College, University of Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI.

★ Ouagadougou becomes the capital of the Mossi Empire.

★ Two Ethiopians attend an ecclesiastical council at Florence, as part of the negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic and Roman Catholic Christianity. This is the earliest recorded contact of the Ethiopian Church with Europe.

★ Revolt in Yucatán capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states.

★ Christopher of Bavaria succeeds Karl Knutsson Borde as king of Sweden.

★ Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples after a five month siege.

★ With the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, governor Haci Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.

★ The Republic of Venice annexes the seigniory of Ravenna, ending the Da Polenta dynasty.

Births

★ February 9 - Ali-Shir Nava'i, politician and poet (died 1501)

Deaths

★ January 14 - Corrado IV Trinci, former lord of Foligno

★ July 9 - Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter

★ July 12 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (born 1394)