1443

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s
Years:	1440 1441 1442 1443 1444 1445 1446

1443 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1443 MCDXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2196
Armenian calendar	892 ԹՎ ՊՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	6193
Balinese saka calendar	1364–1365
Bengali calendar	850
Berber calendar	2393
English Regnal year	21 Hen. 6 – 22 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1987
Burmese calendar	805
Byzantine calendar	6951–6952
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4140 or 3933     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4141 or 3934
Coptic calendar	1159–1160
Discordian calendar	2609
Ethiopian calendar	1435–1436
Hebrew calendar	5203–5204
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1499–1500
- Shaka Samvat	1364–1365
- Kali Yuga	4543–4544
Holocene calendar	11443
Igbo calendar	443–444
Iranian calendar	821–822
Islamic calendar	846–847
Japanese calendar	Kakitsu 3 (嘉吉３年)
Javanese calendar	1358–1359
Julian calendar	1443 MCDXLIII
Korean calendar	3776
Minguo calendar	469 before ROC 民前469年
Nanakshahi calendar	−25
Thai solar calendar	1985–1986
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1569 or 1188 or 416     — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1570 or 1189 or 417

Year 1443 (MCDXLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• July 22 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl (Old Zürich War): The forces of the city of Zürich are defeated, but the Swiss Confederacy have insufficient strength to besiege and take the city.
• April 15 – Queens' College, Cambridge is first founded by Margaret of Anjou.
• November 8 – Battle of Niš: John Hunyadi and the army of the Crusade of Varna defeat three armies of the Ottoman Empire, and capture the city of Niš in modern-day Serbia; Skanderbeg deserts the Ottoman camp and goes to Albania.
• November 28 – Skanderbeg and his forces, rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, liberate Krujë, in Middle Albania, and raise the Albanian flag.

Date unknown

• In Moldavia, the conflict between brothers and co-rulers Iliaș and Stephen II reignites, and Stephen captures Iliaș and blinds him, thus remaining sole ruler of the country.
• Portuguese explorer Nuno Tristão penetrates the Arguin Gulf, off the west coast of Africa.
• King Sejong the Great establishes Hangul, as the native alphabet of the Korean language.
• Vlad II Dracul begins his second term as ruler of Wallachia, succeeding Basarab II.
• The Buddhist Zhihua Temple (智化寺) is built in Beijing, at the order of Wang Zhen, chief eunuch at the court of the Zhengtong Emperor of Ming Dynasty China.
• A powerful earthquake destroys the Timișoara Fortress in Kingdom of Hungary

Births

• January 27 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
• February 2 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (d. 1484)
• February 12 – Giovanni II Bentivoglio, Italian noble (d. 1508)
• February 23 – Matthias Corvinus, of Hungary (d. 1490)
• February – Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick (d. 1449)
• May 17 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1460)
• May 29 – Victor, Duke of Münsterberg, Reichsgraf, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (d. 1500)
• May 31 or 1441 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, English noble, mother of King Henry VII, grandmother of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1509)
• June 29 – Anthony Browne, English knight (d. 1506)
• September 9 – Muhammad Jaunpuri (d. 1505)
• November 10 – Adolf III of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein, Germany noble (d. 1511)
• December 1 – Magdalena of France, French princess and regent of Navarre (d. 1495)
• December 5 – Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
• probable
  • Piero del Pollaiolo, Italian painter (d. 1496)
  • Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and freedom fighting rebel (d. 1492)

Deaths

• January 16 – Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (b. 1370)
• January 28 – Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
• February – Guidantonio da Montefeltro, count of Urbino (b. 1377)
• March 24 – James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371)
• April 12 – Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
• May 9 – Niccolò Albergati, Italian cardinal and diplomat (b. 1373)
• June 5 – Ferdinand the Holy Prince of Portugal (b. 1402)
• August 16 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1434)
• September 18 – Lewis of Luxembourg, Archbishop of Rouen
• date unknown – Infante Diogo, Constable of Portugal
  • Jelena Balšić, Serbian duchess (b. 1366)
• probable – Zeami Motokiyo, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1363)