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Year 1431 (MCDXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • January 9 – Pretrial investigations for Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France under English occupation.
  • March 3 – Pope Eugene IV succeeds Pope Martin V, to become the 207th pope.
  • March 26 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins.
  • May 30 – Nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.
  • June 16 – the Teutonic Knights and Švitrigaila sign the Treaty of Christmemel, creating anti-Polish alliance
  • September – Battle of Inverlochy: Donald Balloch defeats the Royalists.
  • October 30 – Treaty of Medina del Campo, consolidating peace between Portugal and Castille.
  • December 16 – Henry VI of England is crowned King of France.

    • Date unknown

  • The University of Poitiers is founded.
  • The Ayutthaya Kingdom besieges Angkor and sack the Khmer capital, end of the Khmer Empire.
  • Nezahualcoyotl is crowned Tlatoani of the Kingdom of Texcoco.
  • Byzantine–Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly Turahan Bey breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the second time and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula.

    • Births

  • January 1 – Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
  • October 26 – Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian politician (d. 1505)
  • November or December – Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (d. 1476)
  • date unknown
  • William Elphinstone, Scottish statesman (d. 1514)
  • Ladislaus Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (d. 1457)
  • probable
  • William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (d. 1483)
  • John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, English politician (d. 1471)
  • François Villon, French poet
  • Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, A member of the House of Drăculești, as well as the Voivode of Wallachia 1456-1462

    • Deaths

  • January 25 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
  • February 20 – Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
  • April 1 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general and religious figure
  • April 5 – Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1364)
  • May 30 – Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint (b. c. 1412)
  • September 6 – Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine soldier and statesman
  • date unknown
  • Makhdoom Ali Mahimi, Indian Sufi mystic
  • Stanisław of Skarbimierz, Polish theologian (b. 1360)

    • References

    1431 Wikipedia
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