1421

This page relates to the year 1421 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Beijing becomes the capital of the China instead of Nankin.
Beginning of the reign of Mubarak Shah Sayyud, sultan of Delhi (fine in 1434).
According to an increasingly confirmed assumption, many Chinese fleets traverse the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and even the Atlantic Ocean preparing the Grandes Discoveries 15th century hispano-Portuguese.

Mehmet Ier, combined in Byzance, reinstates the emirates Turkish of Anatolia in the Ottoman Empire.
May 26th: Beginning of the Othoman Sultanate of Murad II (fine in 1451).

Murad II eliminates the Mustafa applicant, constant by Byzance, then directs the Turkish offensive in the Balkans and in Asia Mineure.

the north of the France until the the Loire is under English domination .
February 24th: Henri V of England makes crown Queen of England the girl of Charles VI which it has just married.
March 21st: Thomas of Lancaster, brother of Henri V, is killed with the Bataille of Wallow.
May 2nd: Henri V receives the support of the Parliament for a new forwarding in France, and returns to Paris the July 4th.
18 - November 19th (Holy-Elisabeth): catastrophic Floods of the Polder S in Zealand, 10 000 died in the area of Dordrecht.

Jean III sells the Comté of Namur in life annuity with Philippe the Good, duke of Burgundy.
Jeanne II of Naples recognizes like heir Alphonse V to Aragon. This one making him the war, it adopts Louis III of Anjou, which will succeed in reconquering its kingdom on Alphonse V of Aragon.
Florence buys Leghorn with Genoa.
Jean VIII Paleologist becomes Byzantine Co-emperor at the side of his father Manuel II Paleologist.

April 21st: The archbishop of Prague accepts the Four Articles .
May: Sigismond is withdrawn in Hungary.
the diet of Tchaslav elects a directory of 12 members which replaces the royal capacity in Bohemia.
the Hussite S divide: the ultraquists, moderate, recruit themselves among the nobility and the patriciat and fear a total rupture with Rome; the Taborites, them think that the Déclaration of the Four Articles is a minimum. Bunches extremists are detached, as Adamites which preach a total sexual freedom, the chiliastes, millenarists who announce the arrival of the Antéchrist.
the majority of the taborites elect a bishop, Nicolas de Pelhrimov, which reduces the dogma and the liturgy to the evangelic bases.
In spring, Prague organizes a confederation of cities. The taborite Jan Želivský imposes on Prague a republican dictatorship pressed on the craftsmen and the employees.
August: Jan Žižka beats the cross army of Sigismond to Kutna Hora, while using, for the first time in Central Europe, of field artillery.
In November, Prague become again monarchist is favorable to Michel Koruput, candidate against Sigismond.

the Temple of the sky is completed with Beijing.
Construction of That of Oro with Venice by Marco d' Amedeo and Buon for the Contarini family (fine in 1440).
Construction of the Dome of Florence by Brunelleschi (fine in 1434).

May 26th: Mehmet Ier
June 21st: Jean II Meingre, called Boucicaut (second of the name), Marshal of France. (° in 1366).

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