1420
This page relates to the year 1420 Calendrier Julien.
Events
Africa
- With the Morocco, the Wattasides become tutors of the Mérinides (fine in 1465). Abu Zakariya Yahya is vizier for the last sultan mérinide Abu Muhammad Abd Al-Haqq, old of one years with died of his/her father in 1421.
Asia
- Beginning of the reign of Zayn Al 'Abidîn, sultan of the Cashmere (fine in 1470). It constrained the Ladakh and the Baltistan to recognize its suzerainty. Inside, it supports the development of the craft industry and agriculture and practical a tolerant religious policy. It makes rebuild some of the temples destroyed by its predecessor and encourages the Brahmane S which had fled to regain the country. Owner of arts and the letters, it founds Moslem schools with Srinagar, but also a department to translate works sanscrites into Persan, and vice versa (translation of the Mahâbhârata into Persan).
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the Venetian merchant Nicolò de' Conti visit the town of Vijayanagar (India).
Europe
- April - May: A Turkish army attacks the Valachie and its prince Michel Ier dies in the combat in August.
- May 25th: Henri the Navigator, governor of Ceuta, is named by the pope governor of the Ordre of Christ, rich congregation which inherited the possessions Portuguese of the Templiers.
- August: Mehmet Ier installs on the throne of Valachie another son, illegitimate, of Mircea Old the. The throne of Valachie becomes the stake of fights between the descendants of Mircea the Old one and those of his/her brother daN Ier. The first (called Dràculesti) are pressed on the sultan, the seconds on the king of Hungary. Starting from 1422, the voïévode daN II (reign of 1420 with 1431 with interruptions) combat the Turks and protected to them, Radu the Bald person (Praznaglava), and inflicts to them bloody defeats with the assistance of the Hungarians.
- September: Return of Martin V to Rome.
- Revolt of the noble Castilians led by Alvaro de Luna, favorite of the king Jean II of Castille. They will succeed in driving out the infants Aragon, true Masters of the Castille, at the end ten years of civil war.
- Sigismond of Luxembourg, king of Hungary, gives up the Dalmatie with Venice. The the Friuli and the Istrie pass under the authority of the République of Venice.
- Operations of the Turks in Transylvania of the south, who destroy Bross and besiege Sibiu vainly. They try to take Brasov in March 1421.
Bohemia
- March 12th: Sigismond of Luxembourg carries out the crusade against Hussites, preached by order of the pope Martin V.
- March 25th: Jan Žižka is victorious crusaders with the battle of Sudomer.
- April 20th: In a solemn proclamation, noble Czech states more not to recognize the Sigismond emperor for legitimate sovereign, not wanting to see in him but the enemy of their fatherland.
- May 20th: Jan Žižka is made main of Prague which becomes the bastion of the reform hussite. The people ransack churches and convents faithful to Catholicism. The German middle-class men flee. The Taborites form an egalitarian community; they gather with Tábor under the direction of Jan Žižka.
- June 30th: The crusaders besiege Prague.
- July 14th: The crusaders, gathered in haste, are made crush by the Taborites with the battle of Vitkov (Žižkov).
- July 21st: The magistrates of Prague order the confiscation of the goods of the emigrants.
- : The Université of Prague declares supreme authority of the Church and approves a program in “Four Articles” reiterating the essence of the doctrines hussite: communion under the two species ( utraque species ) which marks the return to the primitive Church; freedom of preaching; evangelic poverty of the priests; punishment of the mortal sins by the secular authority, rehabilitation of the vernacular language in the offices.
- November 1st: Sigismond of Luxembourg is beaten by the Taborites with Vyšehrad
France
- January 5th: Philippe the Good, duke of Burgundy, ratifies the convention which bound his/her father to the English.
- January 17th: Charles VI lance of the letters patent, which prohibit Parisian from obeying his/her son the dolphin Charles. Isabeau of Bavaria, scrambled with his/her son, is combined in Philippe the Good and to the English.
- February 12th: Attack of Champtoceau; the counts de Penthièvre remove Jean V of Brittany, released the July 4th thanks to the action of his wife Jeanne de France.
- Mars: Creation of the Parliament of Toulouse. It sits irregularly at Toulouse and Béziers until the October 7th 1428, to be definitively installed in 1444.
- May 20th: Treaty of Troyes - the queen Isabeau of Bavaria, in the name of her insane husband Charles VI of France, declares Henri V of Lancaster Haeres and Regens Franciae .
- the Dolphin Charles is declared bastard by his/her mother, the queen Isabeau of Bavaria. He refuses the Traité of Troyes and makes sure the support of the center and the south of France.
- June 2nd: Henri V of Lancaster Marie with Catherine de Valois, girl of Charles VI.
- July 20th: constrained Amédée VIII the Monegasques of Turbie to pay the Tax on land to take part in donatif made in Nice.
- October 24th: Isabelle Anger of Lorraine wife to Nancy Rene of Anjou.
- February 1st: Solemn entry of Philippe of Burgundy, Charles VI and Henri V in Paris.
- December 12th: Joined together with Paris France by Henri V of England and Charles VI of France, the General states approve peace with England and grant the crown to the king of England to equality with the king of France.
- December 27th: Recalled by the Communes, Henri V turns over to London.
Art & culture
- Lamentations on the evils of the civil war of Christine de Pisan.
- Nativity , painting of Robert Campin (fine in 1425).
- Innauguration of the prohibited Quoted. Beginning of the construction of the Temple of the sky with Beijing.
Main Chiquart , cook of the duke Amédée VIII of Savoy, written Because of cuysine .
Religion
- Pierre de Chelčice (1390 - 1460) written in Czech its hostility with the Church, the laic hierarchy of the orders and preaches a nonviolent evangelic community (1420 - 1440). It founds a community with Kunwald, in Eastern Bohemia, the Union of the brothers or Brothers gipsies.
Science & technology
- Jan Žižka is resulting from the minor nobility of Bohemia of the South. Man of war, it invents inter alia the system of the armor-plated carriages, armed with blades of forgery.
- Opening of the Médesra and beginning of the construction of the observatory of Samarkand by the prince Ulugh Beg (fine in 1429).
Economy & company
- Economic crisis in Catalonia.
- early Grape harvest the August 29th in the north of France. Scalding of corns and Famine until in Spain.
- Nearly four tons of gold and about thirty tons money forwards each year by Venice.
- As Old the takes the direction of the bank Médicis.
Births in 1420
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April 23rd: Georges de Podiebrady, king of Bohemia
- Tomás de Torquemada
Death in 1420
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August 9th: Pierre d' Ailly, geographer and French prelate with Avignon (born in 1350). He discovers the manuscript of the geography of Ptolémée at the time of the Concile of Constancy and employs it in its work Imago Mundi (printed in 1480).
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