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

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January–December

  • April 14 – The foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral 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.
  • Late June – Miner Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson begins a Swedish rebellion against king Eric of Pomerania (named the Engelbrekt rebellion after him), eventually leading to the deposition of the king.
  • July 10–August 9 – Suero de Quiñones and his companions stage the Passo Honroso at the Órbigo in León.
  • August 16 – King Eric of Pomerania is deposed from the Swedish throne at a meeting in Vadstena. He still retains power in Denmark and Norway, though.
  • 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.

    • Date unknown

  • Jan van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Portrait.
  • Explorer Gil Eanes rounds 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.
  • The Puke feud in Sweden.

    • Births

  • January 7 – Adolf, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1441)
  • March 12 – William III, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1480)
  • March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
  • March 25 – Eustochia Smeralda Calafato, Italian saint (d. 1485)
  • June 13 – Cristoforo della Rovere, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1478)
  • September 18 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
  • September 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess consort of Savoy (d. 1478)
  • December 28 – Antonio Grimani, Italian admiral (d. 1523)
  • probable
  • Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; d. 1494)
  • Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (d. 1530)

    • Deaths

  • April 20 – Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
  • May 30 – Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
  • June 1 – King Wladislaus II of Poland
  • June 5 – Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
  • November 12 – King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
  • date unknown
  • John I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1381)
  • Amda Iyasus, Emperor of Ethiopia

    • References

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