1435

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Xuande is described as the only Ming emperor "who displayed genuine artistic talent".

Year 1435 (MCDXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[]

January–December[]

• January 11 – Sweden's first Riksdag of the Estates is summoned under rebel leader Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, who is elected rikshövitsman (military commander of the realm), in the absence of a king, on January 13.
• January 13 – Sicut Dudum, a papal bull forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
• February 2 – The Kingdom of Naples passes to René of Anjou.
• By August – Battle of Podraga: Brothers Iliaș and Stephen II battle to a draw for the throne of Moldavia, leading to a joint rule by them, helped by the intervention of the Polish king.
• August 5 – Battle of Ponza: In a naval battle, the Duchy of Milan decisively defeats Alfonso V of Aragon who is captured.^[1]
• September 1 – Battle of Wiłkomierz: Sigismund Kęstutaitis decisively defeats Grand Duke Švitrigaila, in the decisive battle of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
• September 21 – The Treaty of Arras between Charles VII of France and Philip III of Burgundy ends the English-Burgundian alliance.
• October 14 – Eric of Pomerania is reinstated as king of Sweden, only briefly, however, he is once again deposed in January of the following year.

Date unknown[]

• Francis of Paola founds the Order of the Minims in Italy.
• China returns to a policy of isolation.
• Gil Eanes and Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia explore the coast of Africa, as far as the Angra dos Ruivos (in modern-day Western Sahara).
• Enea Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, is sent by Cardinal Albergati on a secret mission to Scotland and Northern England.

Births[]

• February 1 – Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (d. 1472)
• April 8 – John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, English noble (d. 1461)
• April 16 – Jan II the Mad, Duke of Żagań (1439–1449 and 1461–1468 and again in 1472) (d. 1504)
• May 4 – Joan of France, Duchess of Bourbon, French princess (d. 1482)
• October 24 – Andrea della Robbia, Italian artist (d. 1525)
• date unknown
  • Jean Molinet, French poet and chronicler (d. 1507)
  • Kim Si-seup, Korean scholar and author (d. 1493)
  • Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1497)
  • Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (d. 1504)^[2]
• probable
  • Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish music theorist and composer (approximate date; d. 1511)
  • Andrea del Verrocchio, Florentine sculptor (approximate date; d. 1488)

Deaths[]

• January 31 – Xuande Emperor of China (b. 1399)
• February 2 – Queen Joanna II of Naples (b. 1371)^[3]
• March 27 – Spytek z Tarnowa i Jarosławia, Polish nobleman
• June 12 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
• September 9 – Sir Robert Harling, English knight under the Duke of Bedford
• September 14 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)^[4]
• September 24 – Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of Charles VI of France
• September 27 – Savvatiy, Russian monastery founder
• October 9 – Paweł Włodkowic, Polish scholar (b. 1370)
• October 13 – Hermann II of Celje, Ban of Croatia
• December 30 – Bonne of Berry, Regent of Savoy (b. 1362)

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