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Year 1429 (MCDXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • February 12 – Battle of Rouvray (or "of the Herrings"): English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk at Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stewart.
  • April 29 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
  • April 29 – Siege of Orléans: Joan of Arc enters Orléans with a relief expedition.
  • May 7 – The Tourelles, the last English siege fortification at Orléans, falls. Joan of Arc becomes the hero of the battle by returning wounded to lead the final charge.
  • May 8 – The English, weakened by disease and lack of supplies, depart Orléans.
  • June 18 – Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.
  • July 17 – Charles VII of France crowned in Rheims.
  • September – Hafsid Saracens attempted to capture Malta but were repelled by its defenders.
  • September 8 – Joan of Arc leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris and is wounded.
  • November 24 – Joan besieged La Charité.
  • Date unknown

  • Fire destroys Turku.
  • A series of seven customs offices and barriers are installed along the Grand Canal of China, during the reign of the Ming dynasty's Yongle Emperor.
  • Births

  • January 17 – Antonio del Pollaiolo, Italian artist (d.c. 1498)
  • January 30 – Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel (d. 1438)
  • date unknown – Peter, Constable of Portugal (d. 1466)
  • probable – Mino da Fiesole, Florentine sculptor (d. 1484)
  • Deaths

  • February – Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, founder of the Medici dynasty of Florence (b. c. 1360)
  • June 22 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1380)
  • July 4 – Carlo I Tocco, ruler of Epirus (b. 1372)
  • September 28 – Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria (b. 1394)
  • October – Alexios IV Megas Komnenos, Empire of Trebizond (b. 1382)
  • date unknown – Emperor Yeshaq I of Ethiopia (b. 1414)
  • References

    1429 Wikipedia