1434

Years: 1431 1432 1433 - 1434 - 1435 1436 1437

Decades: 1400s 1410s 1420s - 1430s - 1440s 1450s 1460s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• May 30, Battle of Lipany in the Hussite Wars
• Jan van Eyck paints the wedding of Giovanni Arnoflini
• The Honorable Passing of Arms at the bridge of Obrigo
• The Portuguese reach Cape Bojador in Western Sahara.
• Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia

Births

• March 19 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (died 1443)
• Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; died 1494)
• Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (died 1530)
• Stefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldavia (died 1504)

Deaths

• June 11 - King Wladislaus II of Poland
• November 12 - King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
• John I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1381)
• Prokop the Great, Hussite general
• Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (born 1374)
• Amda Iyasus, Emperor of Ethiopia