1426 Explained

Year 1426 (MCDXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 6  - Battle of St. James (near Avranches): An English army under John, Duke of Bedford, defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont, forcing the Duke of Brittany to recognize English suzerainty.^[1]
• c. May 15 - 16  - Kale Kye-Taung Nyo, ruler of the Kingdom of Ava, flees his capital. He is succeeded by Mohnyin Thado, who receives Thinkhaya III of Toungoo.
• June 16  - Hussite Wars  - Battle of Usti nad Labem: The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
• July 7  - Battle of Khirokitia: King Janus of Cyprus is defeated and captured by the Mamluks and brought to Egypt, where he is ransomed after ten months.
• Date unknown
  • Castello Orsini-Odescalchi is built in Bracciano, Italy by the Orsini family.
  • Eunuch-dominated secret police start to control the palace guards and imperial workshops, infiltrate the civil service, and head all foreign missions in China.^[2]

Births

• February 2  - Eleanor of Navarre, queen regnant of Navarre (d. 1479)
• February  - Christian of Oldenburg, King of Denmark 1448 - 1481, of Norway 1450 - 1481 and of Sweden 1457 - 1464 (d. 1481)^[3]
• July 13  - Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1492)
• September 19  - Maria of Cleves, French noble (d. 1487)
• November 30  - Johann IV Roth, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1506)
• date unknown  - John II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1488)

Deaths

• March / May  - Thomas Hoccleve, English poet (b. c. 1368)
• c. late May  - Kale Kye-Taung Nyo, deposed King of Ava (b. c. 1385)
• September 18  - Hubert van Eyck, painter^[4]
• November 24  - Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter, English Plantagent noblewoman, daughter of John of Gaunt (b. c. 1363)
• December  - Pippo Spano, Hungarian military leader (b. 1369)
• December 31  - Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, English nobleman and military leader (b. c. 1377)
• date unknown  - Tezozomoc, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco and military leader

Notes and References

1. Book: Richard Ernest Dupuy. Trevor Nevitt Dupuy. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present. 1993. HarperCollins. 978-0-06-270056-8. 451.
2. Gernet, Jacques (translated by Foster, J. R. and Hartman, Charles) (1936). A History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge University Press. p. 407.
3. Book: Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov. Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1973. Macmillan. 38.
4. Book: Hubert van Eyck. Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. 1904. Bates and Guild Company. 24.