1427

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

1427 by topic
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1427 in poetry

1427 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1427 MCDXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2180
Armenian calendar	876 ԹՎ ՊՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	6177
Bengali calendar	834
Berber calendar	2377
English Regnal year	5 Hen. 6 – 6 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1971
Burmese calendar	789
Byzantine calendar	6935–6936
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4123 or 4063     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4124 or 4064
Coptic calendar	1143–1144
Discordian calendar	2593
Ethiopian calendar	1419–1420
Hebrew calendar	5187–5188
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1483–1484
- Shaka Samvat	1349–1350
- Kali Yuga	4528–4529
Holocene calendar	11427
Igbo calendar	427–428
Iranian calendar	805–806
Islamic calendar	830–831
Japanese calendar	Ōei 34 (応永３４年)
Julian calendar	1427 MCDXXVII
Korean calendar	3760
Minguo calendar	485 before ROC 民前485年
Thai solar calendar	1969–1970

The Ming Dynasty Xuande Emperor paints a picture of his dogs.

Year 1427 (MCDXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• April – The House of Balsic's rule of Montenegro comes to an end with the death of Balša III.
• August 4 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Tachov: The Hussites decisively beat the crusader armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
• August 17 – The first band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.

Date unknown

• Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
• Bhaktapur Royal Palace in Nepal is built by King Yaksa Malla.
• Gabriel V is elected Patriarch of the Coptic Church for the second time.
• Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava (ancient Burma).
• The Conflict of Druimnacour occurs in Sutherland, Scotland.^[1]
• The first witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
• Celestine Order established in France.
• The Celebration of Sant Jordi (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he will later become its patron saint).
• Bremen is expelled from the Hanseatic League.
• Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.
• The Battle of the Echinades, between a Byzantine fleet and the fleet of Carlo I Tocco.

Births

• February 27 – Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Archbishop of Cologne) (d. 1480)
• May 8 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1470)
• May 29 – Françoise d'Amboise, Member of the French nobility, co-founder of the first monastery of the Carmelites in France (d. 1485)
• September 9 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
• October 14 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (d. 1499)
• October 26 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
• November 24 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1473)
• November 29 – Zhengtong Emperor of China (d. 1464)
• November 30 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
• date unknown – Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (d. 1509)

Deaths

• April 17 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
• May 7 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
• date unknown
  • Chimalpopoca, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (b. 1397)
  • Qu You, Chinese novelist (b. 1341)
• probable
  • Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (b. 1350)
  • Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter

References

1. The History of the Feuds and Conflicts Among the Clans in the Northern Parts of Scotland and in the Western Isles: from the year M.XX1 unto M.B.C.XIX, now first published from a manuscript wrote in the reign of King James VI. (Foulis press, 1764)