1426

Year 1426 (MCDXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1426 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1426
MCDXXVI
Ab urbe condita2179
Armenian calendar875
ԹՎ ՊՀԵ
Assyrian calendar6176
Balinese saka calendar1347–1348
Bengali calendar833
Berber calendar2376
English Regnal year4 Hen. 6  5 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar1970
Burmese calendar788
Byzantine calendar6934–6935
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4122 or 4062
     to 
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4123 or 4063
Coptic calendar1142–1143
Discordian calendar2592
Ethiopian calendar1418–1419
Hebrew calendar5186–5187
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1482–1483
 - Shaka Samvat1347–1348
 - Kali Yuga4526–4527
Holocene calendar11426
Igbo calendar426–427
Iranian calendar804–805
Islamic calendar829–830
Japanese calendarŌei 33
(応永33年)
Javanese calendar1341–1342
Julian calendar1426
MCDXXVI
Korean calendar3759
Minguo calendar486 before ROC
民前486年
Nanakshahi calendar−42
Thai solar calendar1968–1969
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1552 or 1171 or 399
     to 
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
1553 or 1172 or 400

Events

  • March 6 Battle of St. James (near Avranches): An English army under John, Duke of Bedford, defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont, forcing the Duke of Brittany to recognize English suzerainty.[1]
  • c. May 15 - 16 Kale Kye-Taung Nyo, ruler of the Kingdom of Ava, flees his capital. He is succeeded by Mohnyin Thado, who receives Thinkhaya III of Toungoo.
  • June 16 Hussite Wars Battle of Usti nad Labem: The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
  • July 7 Battle of Chirokitia: King Janus of Cyprus is defeated and captured by the Mamluks and brought to Egypt, where he is ransomed after ten months.
  • Date unknown
    • Castello Orsini-Odescalchi is built in Bracciano, Italy by the Orsini family.
    • Eunuch-dominated secret police start to control the palace guards and imperial workshops, infiltrate the civil service, and head all foreign missions in China.[2]

Births

Deaths

  • March / May Thomas Hoccleve, English poet (b. c. 1368)
  • c. late May Kale Kye-Taung Nyo, deposed King of Ava (b. c. 1385)
  • September 18 Hubert van Eyck, painter[4]
  • November 24 Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter, English Plantagent noblewoman, daughter of John of Gaunt (b. c. 1363)
  • December Pippo Spano, Hungarian military leader (b. 1369)
  • December 31 Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, English nobleman and military leader (b. c. 1377)
  • date unknown Tezozomoc, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco and military leader

References

  1. Richard Ernest Dupuy; Trevor Nevitt Dupuy (1993). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present. HarperCollins. p. 451. ISBN 978-0-06-270056-8.
  2. Gernet, Jacques (translated by Foster, J. R. and Hartman, Charles) (1936). A History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge University Press. p. 407.
  3. Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 38.
  4. Hubert van Eyck (1904). Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. Bates and Guild Company. p. 24.
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