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Year 1433 ( MCDXXXIII) was a
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of the
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Events


January–March

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January 3 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor. * 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
Władysław II Jagiełło Jogaila (; 1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło (),Other names include (; ) (see also Names and titles of Władysław II Jagiełło) was Grand Duke of Lithuania beginning in 1377 and starting in 1386, becoming King of Poland as well. ...
, King of Poland, acknowledges the oath of loyalty made on October 25 by Žygimantas I Kęstutaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania, continuing the progress of the eventual Uniting of Poland and Lithuania. *
January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading (871), Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred the Great, Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasi ...
Prokop the Great, leader of the Hussites of
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, appears at the Council of Basel with his envoys in order to negotiate and end to the anti-Hussite Crusade started by the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope. *
January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. * 1038 – An earthquake in Dingxiang, China kills an estimate ...
– At
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, King Wladyslaw II of Poland issues the rule of '' ''Neminem captivabimus nisi iure victum'''' barring the arrest of any member of Poland's nobility unless that person has first been found guilty of an offense. *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 peopl ...
– The seventh Ming Chinese overseas expedition fleet, led by Admiral Zheng He, arrives at the island of Hormuz in the
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, its furthest westward travel and stays for almost two months before setting off for its return to China. *
February 8 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. * 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of ...
Vasily II, Grand Prince of Moscow, is married to Maria Yaroslavna of Borovsk, but at the wedding banquet, he enters a quarrel with his uncle, Yury Dmitrievich. The argument leads to the Battle on the River Klyazma on April 25.Vladimir Shirogorov, ''War on the Eve of Nations: Conflicts and Militaries in Eastern Europe, 1450–1500'' (Lexington Books, 2021) pp.173-174 SBN 9781793622419/ref> *
February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Ti ...
Pope Eugene IV withdraws his papal bull of 1431 that had ordered the Council of Basel to be dissolved, and declares "that the said council from its very beginning was and is a legitimate council and it should continue as if no dissolution was made." *
March 9 Events Pre-1600 *141 BC – Liu Che, Posthumous name, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. *1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the Annals of Quedlinburg, annals of the mo ...
– The Ming Chinese expedition departs from Hormuz Island and begins its four-month voyage home to
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.


April–June

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April 9 Events Pre-1600 * 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum. * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, ...
Ispend bin Yusuf deposes Shah Muhammad of Qara Qoyunlu as Governor of
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April 12 Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to ...
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut signs the Treaty of The Hague, abdicating her rule and ownership of the Dutch counties of
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, Hainaut,
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and
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, (all inherited from her father Willem VI of Holland in 1417), transferring them to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy * April 25Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod defeats the Grand Prince of Moscow, Vasily II, at the Battle on the River Klyazma, in a war over the succession to the Muscovite throne. * May 9 – (6th waning of Kason 795 ME) At what is now
Mrauk U Mrauk U ( ) is a town in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. It is the capital of Mrauk-U Township, a subregion of the Mrauk-U District. Mrauk U is culturally significant for the local Rakhine people, Rakhine (Arakanese) people and is the location ...
on the western coast of northern
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, Min Khayi becomes the new King of Arakan upon the death of his older brother, Min Saw Mon. *
May 12 Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the ...
– The Regency Council for King Henry VI summons the members of Parliament to assemble at Westminster on July 8. * May 13Bolko V the Hussite, Duke of Opole and ruler of most of Upper Silesia and much of Lower Silesia in
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, is defeated by Nicholas V, Duke of Krnov at the Battle of Trzebnica. * May 17 – The Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel becomes the first state in the
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to abolish
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as the Duke Heinrich der Friedfertige ("Heinrich the Peaceful") ends the fedual system there by decree. * May 31Sigismund is crowned as the
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in
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. The Imperial throne has been vacant for more than 52 years since the death of Sigismund's father, Charles IV, in
1378 Year 1378 (Roman numerals, MCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, visits his nephew Charles V of France in Paris, to celebr ...
. * June 24 – The 1431 truce of Staryi Chortoryisk, halting the Lithuanian Civil War, expires and fighting resumes with Poland allying itself with the Hussites against the Teutonic Order. *
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Sarwe Iyasus becomes the new
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upon the death of his father Takla Maryam.


July–September

* July 8 – The English Parliament assembles at
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, and Roger Hunt is elected as Speaker of the House of Commons. * July 22 – Admiral Zheng He and the crew of the seventh Ming Chinese overseas expedition return to
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, arriving at
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two and one half years after their departure on January 19, 1411 from
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. With the completion of the maritime expedition, the fleet is dispersed, altering the balance of power in the
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, and making it easier for Portugal and other Western naval powers to gain dominance over the seas. *
August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. * 29 BC – Octavian ...
Edward I Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 125 ...
becomes
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. * September 7Cosimo de' Medici, later the unofficial leader of ruler of
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and patron of Marsilio Ficino, is imprisoned in the Palazzo dei Priori. Initially facing life imprisonment, Medici is then exiled by the Albizzi/ Strozzi faction instead. He returns a year later, on October 6, 1434. * September 14Emperor Xuanzong of
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welcomes the envoys of 11 foreign nations that had sent representatives to travel back to China with Admiral Zheng He's fleet. Present at the Imperial Court as guests are envoys of the kings of Samudera, Kingdom of Kotte,
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, Calicut, Dhofar, Aden, Coimbatore, Hormuz, Jayile and Mecca. * September 16 – A legate of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, who had been determined to break up the Council of Basel, arrives at the Council and informs the group that Albergati is ready to negotiate.


October–December

* October 5 &ndash (7th day of 9th month of the year Quy Suu); In
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(at the time Dong Kinh) 9-year-old Le Thai Tong becomes the new King of Dai Viet and ruler of northern Vietnam upon the death of his father, Le Loi. *
October October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus , October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ''ôctō'' meaning "eight") after Januar ...
Iliaș of Moldavia is deposed by his half-brother and joint ruler Stephen II. * November 30 – After months of negotiations between the Council of Basel and the Bohemian government, the Compactata of Prague is ratified an assembly of Bohemian and Moravian representatives, resolving the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the Hussites. *
December 15 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine Empire, Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum. * 687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes P ...
– The Truce of Leczyca is signed between the
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and the
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and temporarily ends the Polish–Teutonic War. The Teutons agree to stop their support of the former Lithuanian Grand Duke
Švitrigaila Švitrigaila (before 1370 – 10 February 1452; sometimes spelled Svidrigiello) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1430 to 1432. He spent most of his life in largely unsuccessful dynastic struggles against his cousins Vytautas and Sigismund K� ...
* December 21 – The Parliament of England closes after six months.


Date unknown

*In Ming Dynasty China,
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is listed as a permanent item of trade, on the tax registers of Songjiang prefecture.
* Kalantiaw (of what would later be known as the Philippines) supposedly promulgates the legal code eventually referred to as the Code of Kalantiaw. Modern historians doubt its existence.


Births

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August 31 Events Pre-1600 * 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. * 1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one ye ...
Sigismondo d'Este, Italian nobleman (d. 1507) * September 17James of Portugal, Portuguese cardinal (d. 1459) * September 24Shekha of Amarsar, Rajput chieftain (d. 1488) * September 27Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon regular and saint (d. 1489) * October 19Marsilio Ficino, Florentine philosopher (d. 1499) * November 10 ** Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477) ** Jeanne de Laval, French noble, queen consort of Naples (d. 1498) * ''date unknown'' ** Stephen III of Moldavia, prince from 1457 (d. 1504) ** Giovanni Giocondo, Veronese-born friar, architect and classical scholar (d. 1515) * ''probable'' – Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden from 1464 (d. 1465)


Deaths

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April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor ...
Lidwina, Dutch saint (b. 1380) * May 9 – King Min Saw Mon of Arakan *
August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. * 29 BC – Octavian ...
– King John I of Portugal (b. 1357) * August 30Peter I, Count of Saint-Pol (b. 1390) * September – Zweder van Culemborg, Bishop of Utrecht (birth year unknown) * September 28Přemek I, Duke of Opava (b. c.1365) * December 1Emperor Go-Komatsu, the 100th emperor of Japan (b. 1377)


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