1434
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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 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1434 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1434
- 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.
- Jan van Eyck paints The Wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami.
- Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara. In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
- Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
- In Ming Dynasty China, a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout China, a bad spell that will last until 1448.
[edit] Ongoing
- Council of Florence (1431-1445)
| Gregorian calendar | 1434 MCDXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2187 |
| Armenian calendar | 883 ԹՎ ՊՁԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -410 – -409 |
| Berber calendar | 2384 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1978 |
| Burmese calendar | 796 |
| Chinese calendar | 4070/4130-11-21 (癸丑年十一月廿一日) — to —
4071/4131-12-1(甲寅年十二月初一日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1150 – 1151 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1426 – 1427 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5194 – 5195 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1489 – 1490 |
| - 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) |
| Korean calendar | 3767 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1977 |
[edit] Births
- March 19 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
- 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)
- Cosimo de Medici
[edit] Deaths
- 30 May
- Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
- Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
- June 11 - King Wladislaus II of Poland
- June 19 - Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
- November 12 - King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
- date unknown

