Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1400s 1410s 1420s – 1430s – 1440s 1450s 1460s |
Years: | 1431 1432 1433 – 1434 – 1435 1436 1437 |
1434 by topic |
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Arts and science |
Architecture - Art |
Politics |
State leaders - Sovereign states |
Birth and death categories |
Births - Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments - Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1434 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1434 MCDXXXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2187 |
Armenian calendar | 883 ԹՎ ՊՁԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6184 |
Bahá'í calendar | -410–-409 |
Bengali calendar | 841 |
Berber calendar | 2384 |
English Regnal year | 12 Hen. 6 – 13 Hen. 6 |
Buddhist calendar | 1978 |
Burmese calendar | 796 |
Byzantine calendar | 6942–6943 |
Chinese calendar | 癸丑年十一月廿一日 (4070/4130-11-21) — to —
甲寅年十二月初一日(4071/4131-12-1) |
Coptic calendar | 1150–1151 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1426–1427 |
Hebrew calendar | 5194–5195 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1490–1491 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1356–1357 |
- Kali Yuga | 4535–4536 |
Holocene calendar | 11434 |
Iranian calendar | 812–813 |
Islamic calendar | 837–838 |
Japanese calendar | Eikyō 6 (永享6年) |
Julian calendar | 1434 MCDXXXIV |
Korean calendar | 3767 |
Minguo calendar | 478 before ROC 民前478年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1977 |
Year 1434 (MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- April 14 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France, is laid.
- May 30 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Ultraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.
- June 19 or 20 – Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
- July 10–August 9 – Suero de Quiñones and his companions stage the Passo Honroso at the Órbigo in León.
- September – Cosimo de' Medici returns to Florence one year, to the day, following his exile by the Alberti and Strozzi faction.
- October 19 – The University of Catania is founded in Italy.
Date unknown
- Jan van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Portrait.
- Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara, thus destroying the legends of the "Dark Sea".
- Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
- In Ming Dynasty China, a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout the country until 1448.
Births
- March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
- September 18 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
- September 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
- probable
- Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; d. 1494)
- Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (d. 1530)
Deaths
- May 30
- Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
- Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
- June 1 – King Wladislaus II of Poland
- June 19 – Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
- November 12 – King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
- date unknown