1426

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1390s  1400s  1410s  – 1420s –  1430s  1440s  1450s
Years:	1423 1424 1425 – 1426 – 1427 1428 1429

1426 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1426 in poetry

1426 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1426 MCDXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2179
Armenian calendar	875 ԹՎ ՊՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6176
Bengali calendar	833
Berber calendar	2376
English Regnal year	4 Hen. 6 – 5 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1970
Burmese calendar	788
Byzantine calendar	6934–6935
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4122 or 4062     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4123 or 4063
Coptic calendar	1142–1143
Discordian calendar	2592
Ethiopian calendar	1418–1419
Hebrew calendar	5186–5187
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1482–1483
- Shaka Samvat	1348–1349
- Kali Yuga	4527–4528
Holocene calendar	11426
Igbo calendar	426–427
Iranian calendar	804–805
Islamic calendar	829–830
Japanese calendar	Ōei 33 (応永３３年)
Julian calendar	1426 MCDXXVI
Korean calendar	3759
Minguo calendar	486 before ROC 民前486年
Thai solar calendar	1968–1969

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

Events

January–December

• 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.
• June 16 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Usti nad Labem: The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
• July 7 – The Battle of Chirokitia is fought.

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. ^[1]

Births

• February 2 – Eleanor of Navarre (d. 1479)
• February – Christian of Oldenburg, King of Denmark 1448–1481, of Norway 1450–1481 and of Sweden 1457–1464 (d. 1481)
• 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)
• 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

References

1. Gernet, Jacques. (translated by Foster, J. R. and Hartman, Charles) A History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge University Press. 1996. p. 407.