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Year1429(MCDXXIX) was acommon year starting on Saturday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- February 12–Battle of Rouvray(or "of the Herrings" ):Englishforces under SirJohn Fastolfdefend a supply convoy, which is carrying rations (food) to the army ofWilliam de la Pole, 4th Earl of SuffolkatOrléans,from attack by theComte de ClermontandJohn Stewart.[1]
- April 29–Siege of Orléans:Joan of ArcentersOrléanswith a relief expedition.[2]
- May 7– The Tourelles, the lastEnglishsiege fortification atOrléans,falls.Joan of Arcbecomes the hero of the battle by returning, wounded, to lead the final charge.
- May 8– TheEnglish,weakened by disease and lack of supplies, departOrléans.
- June 18–Battle of Patay:Frenchforces underJoan of Arcsmash theEnglishforces underLord TalbotandSirJohn Fastolf,forcing the withdrawal of theEnglishfrom theLoire Valley.
- July 17–Charles VII of Franceis crowned inRheims.[3]
- September– TheHafsidSaracensattempt to capture Malta,but are repelled by its defenders.
- September 8–Joan of Arcleads an unsuccessful attack onParis,and is wounded.
- November 4–Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War:Joan of Arc liberatesSaint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
- November 24–Joan of Arcbesieges La Charité.
Date unknown
[edit]- Fire destroysTurku.
- A series of sevencustomsoffices and barriers are installed along theGrand Canal of China,during the reign of theMing Dynasty'sYongle Emperor.
- AndreyasSucceeds Yeshaq I as Emperor of Ethiopia
Births
[edit]- January 17–Antonio del Pollaiuolo,Italian artist (d.c.1498)
- date unknown–Peter, Constable of Portugal(d.1466)
- probable–Mino da Fiesole,Florentine sculptor (d.1484)
Deaths
[edit]- February–Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici,founder of theMedicidynasty of Florence (b. c.1360)
- June 22–Ghiyath al-Kashi,Persian mathematician and astronomer (b.1380)
- July 4–Carlo I Tocco,ruler of Epirus (b.1372)
- July 12–Jean Gerson,chancellor of theUniversity of Paris(b.1363)
- September 28–Cymburgis of Masovia,Duchess of Austria by marriage to DukeErnest the IronofInner Austria(b.1394)
- October–Alexios IV Megas Komnenos,Empire of Trebizond(b.1382)
- date unknown– EmperorYeshaq I of Ethiopia(b.1414)
References
[edit]- ^Joseph Brady Mitchell; Edward Shepherd Creasy (April 2004).Twenty Decisive Battles of the World.William S. Konecky Associates, Incorporated. p. 138.ISBN978-1-56852-458-0.
- ^Thomas Tegg (1854).Tegg's Dictionary of Chronology; Or, Historical and Statistical Register: From the Birth of Christ to the Present Time...D. Appleton and Company. p. 471.
- ^Military Review.1958. p. 6.