1428

Year 1428 (MCDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1428 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1428
MCDXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2181
Armenian calendar877
ԹՎ ՊՀԷ
Assyrian calendar6178
Balinese saka calendar1349–1350
Bengali calendar835
Berber calendar2378
English Regnal year6 Hen. 6  7 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar1972
Burmese calendar790
Byzantine calendar6936–6937
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4124 or 4064
     to 
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4125 or 4065
Coptic calendar1144–1145
Discordian calendar2594
Ethiopian calendar1420–1421
Hebrew calendar5188–5189
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1484–1485
 - Shaka Samvat1349–1350
 - Kali Yuga4528–4529
Holocene calendar11428
Igbo calendar428–429
Iranian calendar806–807
Islamic calendar831–832
Japanese calendarŌei 35 / Shocho 1
(正長元年)
Javanese calendar1343–1344
Julian calendar1428
MCDXXVIII
Korean calendar3761
Minguo calendar484 before ROC
民前484年
Nanakshahi calendar−40
Thai solar calendar1970–1971
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
1554 or 1173 or 401
     to 
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1555 or 1174 or 402

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • February 2 1428 Catalonia earthquake. The earthquake takes place during Candlemas, striking the region of Catalonia, especially Roussillon, with an epicentre near Camprodon. The earthquake is one of a series of related seismic events that shake Catalonia in a single year. Beginning on 23 February 1427, tremors are felt in March, April, 15 May at Olot.[1][2]
  • June 3 Dan II leads an army against the Ottomans at Golubac Fortress, obtaining a treaty that will allow him a semi-peaceful rule in Wallachia, until 1432.
  • August 30 Emperor Go-Hanazono accedes to the throne of Japan.
  • October 12 English forces under Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, besiege Orléans. Jean de Dunois, the Bastard of Orléans, commands the defenders.[3]
  • October 24 Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, is mortally wounded in an unsuccessful assault on Orléans. He is succeeded in command by William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk.

Date unknown

  • Itzcóatl becomes 1st emperor of the Aztec Empire.
  • The Aztec Triple Alliance (also known as The Aztec Empire) forms with the alliance of three Aztec city-states—Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopán—and defeats Azcapotzalco to win control of the Valley of Mexico.
  • The Valais witch trials begin. [4]
  • A serious fire occurs at Baynard's Castle in London, England.[5]
  • Voices tell Joan of Arc that Charles VII of France must be crowned, and the English expelled from France.[6]
  • Lam Sơn uprising: Lê Lợi, founder of the Lê Dynasty in Vietnam, liberates Annam (the territory occupied by Ming Dynasty China in 1407), and restores the kingdom as Đại Việt.

Births

Deaths

  • January 4 Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1370)
  • February 3 Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1386)
  • June 12 Zawisza Czarny, Polish knight and diplomat
  • August 27 John I of Münsterberg, Duke of Ziebice (b. 1370)
  • August 30 Emperor Shōkō, emperor of Japan (b. 1401)
  • Autumn Masaccio, Italian painter (b. 1401)
  • November 3 Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)[7]
  • November 4 Sophia of Bavaria, Queen regent of Bohemia (b. 1376)
  • date unknown
    • Maxtla, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco
    • Paul of Venice, Catholic theologian
    • Isabella, Countess of Foix, French sovereign (b. 1361)
  • probable John Purvey, English theologian (b. 1353)

References

  1. Joan Toralles described the Olot quake in a brief notice in his Noticiari.
  2. Banda, E.; Correig, A. M. (1984), "The Catalan earthquake of February 2, 1428", Engineering Geology, Elsevier, 20 (1–2): 89–97, doi:10.1016/0013-7952(84)90045-0
  3. The First Biography of Joan of Arc: Translated and Annotated by Daniel Rankin and Claire Quintal. University of Pittsburgh Pre. February 15, 1964. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-8229-7540-3.
  4. Burns, William E. (2003). Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 296. ISBN 9780313321429.
  5. Richardson, John (2000). The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History. University of California Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780520227958.
  6. "Saint Joan of Arc | French heroine". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  7. Wiltshire Notes and Queries. 1905. p. 489.
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