1438

Year 1438 (MCDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1438 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1438
MCDXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2191
Armenian calendar887
ԹՎ ՊՁԷ
Assyrian calendar6188
Balinese saka calendar1359–1360
Bengali calendar845
Berber calendar2388
English Regnal year16 Hen. 6  17 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar1982
Burmese calendar800
Byzantine calendar6946–6947
Chinese calendar丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
4134 or 4074
     to 
戊午年 (Earth Horse)
4135 or 4075
Coptic calendar1154–1155
Discordian calendar2604
Ethiopian calendar1430–1431
Hebrew calendar5198–5199
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1494–1495
 - Shaka Samvat1359–1360
 - Kali Yuga4538–4539
Holocene calendar11438
Igbo calendar438–439
Iranian calendar816–817
Islamic calendar841–842
Japanese calendarEikyō 10
(永享10年)
Javanese calendar1353–1354
Julian calendar1438
MCDXXXVIII
Korean calendar3771
Minguo calendar474 before ROC
民前474年
Nanakshahi calendar−30
Thai solar calendar1980–1981
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1564 or 1183 or 411
     to 
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1565 or 1184 or 412

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • January 1 Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Hungary.
  • January 9 The city of Cluj (Kolozsvár) is conquered, thus marking the end of the Transylvanian peasant revolt, which started at Bobâlna.
  • January 10 The Council of Florence opens in Ferrara.
  • February 2 The Unio Trium Nationum pact is established in Transylvania.
  • February 10 All Souls' College is founded in the University of Oxford by Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Henry VI of England as a graduate institution.[1]
  • March 18 Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany.
  • July 7 Charles VII of France issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, giving the French church control over the appointment of bishops, and depriving the Pope of French ecclesiastical revenues.
  • September 13 Afonso V becomes King of Portugal.
  • October
    • Eric of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, loses direct control of Sweden, as Karl Knutsson Bonde is elected Regent of Sweden.
    • The siege of Brescia in Italy by the condottieri troops of Niccolò Piccinino, begun on July 11, is raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.

Date unknown

  • Pachacuti becomes ruler of the Kingdom of Cusco and begins its expansion into the Inca Empire (Tahuantinsuyu).[2]
  • At 95 years of age, Nang Keo Phimpha becomes queen of Lan Xang for a few months before being deposed and killed.
  • Just two years after the Ming dynasty court of China allowed landowners paying the grain tax to pay their tax in silver instead, the Ming court now decides to close all silver mines and prohibit all private silver mining in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. This is a concerted effort to halt the increase of silver circulating into the market. The illegal mining of silver is now an offense punishable by death; although it becomes a dangerous affair, the high demand for silver also makes it very lucrative, and so many chose to defy the government and continue to mine.
  • The Sukhothai Kingdom merges with the Ayutthaya Kingdom.

Births

  • February 5
    • Margaret of Bourbon, French noble (d. 1483)
    • Philip II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1497)
  • February 12 Adolf, Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen (1465–1471) (d. 1477)
  • March 23 Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo, Italian noble (d. 1504)
  • April 3 John III of Egmont, Dutch noble (d. 1516)
  • September 7 Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (1458–1471) (d. 1471)
  • December 1 Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, son of Charles I (d. 1503)
  • date unknown Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (d. 1506)
  • probable Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English nobleman and military commander during the Wars of the Roses (d. 1471)[3]

Deaths

References

  1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
  2. Julian Haynes Steward (1947). Handbook of South American Indians: The Andean civilizations. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 205.
  3. Trevor Royle (2009). The Road to Bosworth Field: A New History of the Wars of the Roses. Little, Brown. p. 454. ISBN 978-0-316-72767-9.
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