Explore 60 historical events from 1430–1439.
Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło, was Grand Duke of Lithuania beginning in 1377 and King of Poland from 1386 until his death. As Grand Duke, he ruled Lithuania from 1377 to 138…
King Wladislaus II of Poland
The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duc…
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was captured by Burgundian forces at the Siege of Compiègne
Adolph III, Count of Waldeck was Count of Waldeck-Landau from 1397 until his death. He was the founder of the elder Waldeck-Landau line.
Adolph III, count of Waldeck (born 1362)
Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of Fran…
Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction
Prokop the Great or Prokop the Bald or the Shaven was a Czech Hussite general and a prominent Taborite military leader during the Hussite Wars. On his mother's side, he came from…
Prokop the Great, Czech general (born 1380)
Francesco Bussone, often called Count of Carmagnola, was an Italian condottiero.
Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer
Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick was an English medieval nobleman and military commander.
Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English commander (born 1382)
Count John III the Younger of Nassau-Siegen, German: Johann III. der Jüngere Graf von Nassau-Siegen, succeeded, with his brothers, his father in 1416 as Count of Nassau-Siegen. Wit…
John III, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count
Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson was a Swedish nobleman, rebel leader and military leader of German ancestry. He was the leader of the Engelbrekt rebellion in 1434 against Eric of Pomeran…
Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (27 April O
The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Em…
Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and
Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, aka Anne Plantagenet, was the first child of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville. She was thus the eldest sister of kings Edw…
Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, Duchess of York (died 1476)
Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick was an English medieval nobleman and military commander.
Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English commander (born 1382)
Frederick IV, also known as Frederick of the Empty Pockets, a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1402 until his death. As a scion of the Habsburg Leopoldian …
Frederick IV, duke of Austria (born 1382)
Sidi El Houari was an Algerian imam whose real name was Ben-Amar El Houari. He is the patron saint of the city of Oran in Algeria. The old quarter of Sidi El Houari in Oran is name…
Sidi El Houari, Algerian imam (born 1350)
Ambrogio Traversari, also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, was an Italian monk and theologian who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century. He is honored as…
Ambrose the Camaldulian, Italian theologian
The Catholic Church, also called the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with an estimated 1.28 to 1.41 billion baptized members worldwide as of 2026. It consis…
The reunion of the Catholic and Orthodox Church is proclaimed and celebrated with a public holiday.
Albert II was King of the Romans and a member of the House of Habsburg. By inheritance he became Albert V, Duke of Austria. Through his wife Elizabeth of Luxembourg, he also became…
Albert II of Germany (born 1397)
The Transylvanian peasant revolt, also known as the Bábolna revolt was a popular revolt in the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1437. The revolt broke out after Geo…
A temporary compromise between the rebellious Transylvanian peasants and the noblemen is signed in Kolozsmonostor Abbey.
Louis II of Hesse, called Louis the Frank, was the Landgrave of Lower Hesse from 1458 - 1471.
Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (died 1471)
Edward, also called Edward the Philosopher King or the Eloquent, was the King of Portugal from 1433 until his death. He was born in Viseu, the son of John I of Portugal and Philipp…
Edward, king of Portugal (born 1391)
Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford was the eldest daughter and eventually sole heiress of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, by his wife Eleanor de Bohun, one of th…
Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (born 1383)
Jacopo della Quercia, also known as Jacopo di Pietro d'Agnolo di Guarnieri, was an Italian sculptor of the Early Renaissance, a contemporary of Brunelleschi, Ghiberti and Donatello…
Jacopo della Quercia, Sienese sculptor (born c. 1374)
The Battle of Tangier, sometimes referred to as the siege of Tangiers, and by the Portuguese, as the disaster of Tangier, refers to the attempt by a Portuguese expeditionary force …
Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.
John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, KG was an English Yorkist nobleman.
John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (died 1498)
Joan of Navarre, also known as Joanna was Duchess of Brittany by marriage to Duke John IV and later Queen of England as the wife of King Henry IV. Joan was a daughter of Charles II…
Joan of Navarre, Queen of England (born 1370)
Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson was a Swedish nobleman, rebel leader and military leader of German ancestry. He was the leader of the Engelbrekt rebellion in 1434 against Eric of Pomeran…
Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (27 April O
Johannes Müller von Königsberg, better known as Regiomontanus, was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His c…
Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg), German mathematician, astronomer, and bishop (died 1476)
Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson was a Swedish nobleman, rebel leader and military leader of German ancestry. He was the leader of the Engelbrekt rebellion in 1434 against Eric of Pomeran…
Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader (27 April O
Jacqueline, of the House of Wittelsbach, was a noblewoman who ruled the counties of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut in the Low Countries from 1417 to 1433. She was also Dauphine of Fr…
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (born 1401)
The Congress of Arras was a diplomatic congregation established at Arras in the summer of 1435 during the Hundred Years' War, between representatives of England, France and Burgund…
The Treaty of Arras is promulgated, causing Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel, 4th Baron Maltravers KG was an English nobleman and military commander during the later phases of the Hundred Years' War. His father, John Fitza…
John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (born 1408)
Sir Robert Harling was an English early member of the landed gentry, a soldier, and political strongman. The Norfolk villages of East Harling, West Harling, Harling Market and Larl…
Robert Harling, English knight
John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, was a medieval English prince, general, and statesman who commanded England's armies in France during a critical phase of the Hundred Years' War…
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord High Admiral (born 1389)
Isabeau of Bavaria was Queen of France as the wife of King Charles VI from 1385 to 1422. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach as the only daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bava…
Isabeau of Bavaria (born 1370)