1434

	1434 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s 1410s 1420s – 1430s – 1440s 1450s 1460s
Years:	1431 1432 1433 – 1434 – 1435 1436 1437

Year 1434 (MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

For the controversial book by Gavin Menzies, see: 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance.

[edit] Events of 1434

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.
10 July to 9 August, Suero de Quiñones and his companions stage the Passo Honroso in León.
Jan van Eyck paints The Wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami.
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.
Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
In Ming Dynasty China, a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout China, a bad spell that will last until 1448.
Cosimo de' Medici returns to Florence one year, to the day, following his exile the previous September by the Alberti and Strozzi faction.

March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
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)
September 18 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. September 3, 1467)