1424

August 17: English armies overcome a larger French and Scottish force in defending Normandy in the Battle of Verneuil (illustration in the Vigiles du roi Charles VII)
1424 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1424
MCDXXIV
Ab urbe condita2177
Armenian calendar873
ԹՎ ՊՀԳ
Assyrian calendar6174
Balinese saka calendar1345–1346
Bengali calendar830–831
Berber calendar2374
English Regnal year2 Hen. 6 – 3 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar1968
Burmese calendar786
Byzantine calendar6932–6933
Chinese calendar癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
4121 or 3914
    — to —
甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4122 or 3915
Coptic calendar1140–1141
Discordian calendar2590
Ethiopian calendar1416–1417
Hebrew calendar5184–5185
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1480–1481
 - Shaka Samvat1345–1346
 - Kali Yuga4524–4525
Holocene calendar11424
Igbo calendar424–425
Iranian calendar802–803
Islamic calendar827–828
Japanese calendarŌei 31
(応永31年)
Javanese calendar1338–1339
Julian calendar1424
MCDXXIV
Korean calendar3757
Minguo calendar488 before ROC
民前488年
Nanakshahi calendar−44
Thai solar calendar1966–1967
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Water-Hare)
1550 or 1169 or 397
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Wood-Dragon)
1551 or 1170 or 398

Year 1424 (MCDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

  • January 23 – William Cheyne becomes the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, replacing the late William Hankford.[1]
  • February 1 – While negotiating his release from captivity, King James of Scotland is allowed to be married to Joan Beaufort in London, with a ceremony taking place at Southwark Cathedral.[2]
  • February 12 – The coronation of Sophia of Halshany, wife of Władysław II Jagiełło, as Queen consort of Poland takes place at the Kraków Cathedral.[3]
  • February 14 – Wars in Lombardy: The army of the Florentine Republic, led by Captain Pandolfo III Malatesta, storms the city of Romagna.
  • March 28 – King James I of Scotland is released after having been held captive in England for 18 years. James is freed after putting his royal seal on a ransom treaty of £40,000, secured by Scottish hostages taking his place, as agreed at Durham, England.[4]

April–June

  • April 1 – China's Emperor Zhu Di, angry over the refusal of the Mongolian vassal Arughtai to pay tribute, departs from Beijing with an army of almost one million troops on a campaign in Inner Mongolia.[5]
  • April 5 – King James returns to Scotland for the first time since 1406, after being escorted to the border along with his wife Joan Beaufort, Queen consort, by English and Scottish nobles.[4]
  • May 21 – The coronation of James I as King of Scotland takes place at Scone Abbey in the Scottish town of Scone. After the ceremony King James performs his first knighthood ceremony, honoring 18 prominent nobles.
  • June 2 – Battle of L'Aquila: Jacopo Caldora and Micheletto Attendolo, for the Kingdom of Naples, defeat Braccio da Montone, for Alfonso V of Aragon.
  • June 22 – Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt under the leadership of Egyptian general Ibn bint al-Aqsarayi launch a series of military expeditions marking the start of the Mamluk campaigns against Cyprus (1424–1426).

July –September

  • July 28 – The army of the Duchy of Milan, led by the Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, defeats the Republic of Florence's army, led by Carlo I Malatesta, in the Battle of Zagonara.[6]
  • August 12 – China's Yongle era Emperor, Zhu Di, dies at the age of 64 while leading an expedition of almost one million soldiers in an attempt to capture the Mongol leader Arughtai. The Emperor suffers a fatal stroke at at Yumuchuan in what is now Inner Mongolia, while Arughtai has escaped.[5][7]
  • August 17 – Battle of Verneuil: An English force under John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, defeats a larger French army under John II, Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Archibald, Earl of Douglas. Alençon is captured and Douglas killed.[8]
  • September 7 – Prince Zhu Gaochi of China becomes the Hongxi Emperor (Emperor Renzong) of the Ming dynasty, beginning the Hongxi era, after the August 12 death of his father, the Emperor Zhu Di.[9]
  • September 13 – After the signing of a treaty between the different factions in the Hussite Wars, the Bohemian campaign is completed in the modern-day Czech Republic.
  • September 23 – The Hussites, led by Jan Žižka, begin marching towards North Moravia to suppress the ongoing rebellion there.

October –December

  • October 11 – Prokop the Great takes command of the Hussites after the death of Jan Žižka from the plague.[10]
  • November 1 – Zhu Zhanji is designated as the Crown Prince of Ming dynasty China by his father, the Hongxi Emperor. The Emperor dies eight months later and Zhu Zhanji becomes the Xuande Emperor on June 27, 1425.[11]
  • November – The Bourges astronomical clock, designed by Jean Fusoris, is installed in Bourges Cathedral as a gift to the town from Charles VII of France.[12]
  • December 10 – Radu II Chelul becomes the Prince of Wallachia (now in Romania) for the third time, taking over from Dan II after an Ottoman invasion.

Date unknown

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ↑ Powell, Edward (2004). "Cheyne, Sir William (d. 1443)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5264.
  2. ↑ Weir, Alison (2008). Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster. London: Random House. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-345-45323-5.
  3. ↑ Duczmal, Małgorzata (2012). Jogailaičiai (PDF). Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras. p. 425. ISBN 978-5-420-01703-6.
  4. 1 2 Brown, M. H. (2004). "James I". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14587. Retrieved 16 May 2010. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  5. 1 2 "The Chien-wen, Yung-lo, Hung-hsi, and Hsüan-te reigns". by Chan Hok-lam (1988), in The Cambridge History of China Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1, by ed. by Frederick W. Mote and Denis C. Twitchett,(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) pp. 184–304. ISBN 0521243327
  6. ↑ Peter Paret (1986). Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age. Oxford University Press. p. 21.
  7. ↑ Menzies, Gavin (2003). 1421: The Year China Discovered America. William Morrow and Co. p. 52. ISBN 978-0061564895.
  8. ↑ Richard Wadge. "The Battle of Verneuil: a second Agincourt". The History Press. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  9. ↑ Dreyer, Edward L. (1982). Early Ming China: A Political History. Palo Alto CA: Stanford University Press. p. 222. ISBN 0-8047-1105-4.
  10. ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Prokop. Encyclopædia Britannica. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  11. ↑ Dreyer, Edward L (2007). Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 (Library of World Biography Series ed.). New York: Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-0321084439.
  12. ↑ Chevalier, Michel (1997). La France des cathédrales : du IVe au XXe (in French). Éditions Ouest-France. p. 327.
  13. ↑ Stephanopoli, Dimo (1799). Voyage de Dimo et Nicolo Stephanopoli en Grèce,: pendant les années V et VI. Paris: Guilleminet.
  14. ↑ Schutte, O. (1979). "Genealogische gegevens". In Tamse, C.A. (ed.). Nassau en Oranje in de Nederlandse geschiedenis (in Dutch). Alphen aan den Rijn: A.W. Sijthoff. p. 41. ISBN 90-218-2447-7.
  15. ↑ Dek, A.W.E. (1970). Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau (in Dutch). Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek. p. 69.
  16. ↑ Blok, P.J. (1911). "Johan (Johann) IV, graaf van Nassau-Dillenburg". In Molhuysen, P.C. & Blok, P.J. (eds.). Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (in Dutch). Vol. Eerste deel. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff. p. 1219.
  17. ↑ Vorsterman van Oyen, A.A. (1882). Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden tot heden (in Dutch). Leiden & Utrecht: A.W. Sijthoff & J.L. Beijers. p. 93.
  18. ↑ Catholic Church. Province of Canterbury (England). Archbishop (1414-1443 : Chichele) (1938). The Register of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1414-1443. Clarendon Press. p. lx.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ↑ Japan Society of London (1925). Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. p. 112.