1428

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1390s  1400s  1410s  – 1420s –  1430s  1440s  1450s
Years:	1425 1426 1427 – 1428 – 1429 1430 1431

1428 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
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Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1428 in poetry

1428 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1428 MCDXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2181
Armenian calendar	877 ԹՎ ՊՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	6178
Bengali calendar	835
Berber calendar	2378
English Regnal year	6 Hen. 6 – 7 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1972
Burmese calendar	790
Byzantine calendar	6936–6937
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4124 or 4064     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4125 or 4065
Coptic calendar	1144–1145
Discordian calendar	2594
Ethiopian calendar	1420–1421
Hebrew calendar	5188–5189
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1484–1485
- Shaka Samvat	1350–1351
- Kali Yuga	4529–4530
Holocene calendar	11428
Igbo calendar	428–429
Iranian calendar	806–807
Islamic calendar	831–832
Japanese calendar	Ōei 35 / Shocho 1 (正長元年)
Julian calendar	1428 MCDXXVIII
Korean calendar	3761
Minguo calendar	484 before ROC 民前484年
Thai solar calendar	1970–1971

Year 1428 (MCDXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• August 30 – Emperor Go-Hanazono accedes to the throne of Japan.
• October 12 – English forces under Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, besiege Orléans. Jean de Dunois, the Bastard of Orléans, commands the defenders.
• October 24 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, is mortally wounded in an unsuccessful assault on Orléans. He is succeeded in command by William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk.

Date unknown

• Itzcóatl becomes ruler of the Aztecs. He eventually begins the construction of Tenochtitlan.
• The Aztec Triple Alliance (also known as The Aztec Empire) forms with the alliance of three Aztec city-states—Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopán—and defeats Azcapotzalco to win control of the Valley of Mexico.
• A serious fire occurs at Baynard's Castle in London.
• Voices tell Joan of Arc that Charles VII of France must be crowned and the English expelled from France.
• Lam Sơn uprising: Lê Lợi, founder of the Lê Dynasty in Vietnam, liberates Annam (the territory occupied by Ming Dynasty China in 1407) and restores the kingdom as Đại Việt.

Births

• February 3 – Helena Palaiologina, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1458)
• April 7 – William Percy, late medieval Bishop of Carlisle (d. 1462)
• May 3 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
• July 4 – Filippo Strozzi the Elder, Italian banker (d. 1491)
• September 21 – Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
• November 2 – Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1483)
• November 22 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (d. 1471)
• December 4 – Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe (1429–1511) (d. 1511)
• date unknown – Donato Acciaioli, Italian scholar (d. 1478)
• probable – Didrik Pining, German explorer (approximate date)

Deaths

• February 3 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
• June 12 – Zawisza Czarny, Polish knight and diplomat
• June 15 – Paul of Venice, Catholic theologian
• August 27 – John I of Münsterberg, Duke of Ziebice (b. 1370)
• August 30 – Emperor Shōkō, emperor of Japan (b. 1401)
• Autumn – Masaccio, Italian painter (b. 1401)
• November 3 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)
• December 27 – Elizabeth Lacković, Croatian-Hungarian noblewoman
• date unknown
  • Maxtla, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco
• probable – John Purvey, English theologian (b. 1353)

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