1434
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1400s 1410s 1420s – 1430s – 1440s 1450s 1460s |
| Years: | 1431 1432 1433 – 1434 – 1435 1436 1437 |
| 1434 by topic |
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| 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 |
| 1434 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1434 MCDXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2187 |
| Armenian calendar | 883 ԹՎ ՊՁԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6184 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -410–-409 |
| Bengali calendar | 841 |
| Berber calendar | 2384 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Hen. 6 – 13 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1978 |
| Burmese calendar | 796 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6942–6943 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年十一月廿一日 (4070/4130-11-21) — to —
甲寅年十二月初一日(4071/4131-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | 1150–1151 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1426–1427 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5194–5195 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1490–1491 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1356–1357 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4535–4536 |
| Holocene calendar | 11434 |
| Iranian calendar | 812–813 |
| Islamic calendar | 837–838 |
| Japanese calendar | Eikyō 6 (永享6年) |
| Korean calendar | 3767 |
| Minguo calendar | 478 before ROC 民前478年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1977 |
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Year 1434 (MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- April 14 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France, is laid.
- May 30 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Ultraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.
- June 19 or 20 – Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
- July 10–August 9 – Suero de Quiñones and his companions stage the Passo Honroso at the Órbigo in León.
- September – Cosimo de' Medici returns to Florence one year, to the day, following his exile by the Alberti and Strozzi faction.
- October 19 – The University of Catania is founded in Italy.
[edit] Date unknown
- Jan van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Portrait.
- Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara, thus destroying the legends of the "Dark Sea".
- Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
- In Ming Dynasty China, a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout the country until 1448.
[edit] Births
- March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
- September 18 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
- September 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
- probable
- Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; d. 1494)
- Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (d. 1530)
[edit] Deaths
- May 30
- Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
- Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
- June 1 – King Wladislaus II of Poland
- June 19 – Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
- November 12 – King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
- date unknown
