Explore 47 historical events from 1440–1449.
Bernardino of Siena, OFM, was an Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in the Republic of Siena. He was a systematizer of scholastic economics.
Bernardino of Siena, Italian-Spanish missionary and saint (born 1380)
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, 3rd Earl of Somerset was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was a paternal first cousin of King Henry…
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English commander (born 1404)
The Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl was a battle of the Old Zürich War that occurred on 22 July 1443, resulting in a defeat for Zürich.
Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.
Edmund, Earl of Rutland, was the fourth child and second surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville. He was a younger brother of Edward, Earl of Mar…
Edmund, Earl of Rutland (died 1460)
Victor, Duke of Münsterberg also: Victor, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava; Czech: Viktorin z Minsterberka; was an Imperial Count from 1459 and Count of Kladsko. From 1462 until his d…
Victor, Duke of Münsterberg, Reichsgraf, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (died 1500)
Sir Anthony Browne was the son of Sir Thomas Browne and Eleanor FitzAlan. He served as Henry VII's standard-bearer and Lieutenant of Calais.
Anthony Browne, English knight (died 1506)
Niccolò Albergati was an Italian Carthusian and a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed cardinal and served as a papal diplomat to France and England (1422–23) in …
Niccolò Albergati, Italian Cardinal and diplomat (born 1373)
Ferdinand the Holy Prince, sometimes called the "Saint Prince" or the "Constant Prince", was an infante of the Kingdom of Portugal. He was the youngest of the "Illustrious Generati…
Ferdinand, Portuguese prince (born 1402)
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu was the seventh shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikatsu was the son of 6th shōgun Ashik…
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (born 1434)
Louis of Luxembourg;. Bishop of Therouanne 1415–1436, Archbishop of Rouen, 1436, Bishop of Ely 1437, Cardinal.
Lewis of Luxembourg, archbishop of Rouen
Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until he died in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series o…
Edward IV, king of England (died 1483)
Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado was the 103rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1464 through 1500.
Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (died 1500)
Boček IV of Poděbrady, was, by title, the last member of the Bohemian noble family of Poděbrady, who were descended from the Lords of Kunštát.
Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (died 1496)
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford,, the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Howard, a first cousin of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was one of the pr…
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (died 1513)
John V, sometimes numbered as VI, bynamed John the Wise, was Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort from 1399 to his death. His rule coincided with the height of the Hundred Years'…
John V, duke of Brittany (born 1389)
Galeotto I Pico della Mirandola was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, Signore of Mirandola and Concordia. He was noted by contemporaries for his tyranny. The son of Gianfrancesc…
Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (died 1499)
Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and claimant to the French throne from 1422 to 1453 under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes. He became k…
King Henry VI of England lays the foundation stone of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Danjong, personal name Yi Hong-wi, was the sixth monarch of Joseon. He ascended to the throne at the age of 11, upon the death of his sickly father, King Munjong. Three years later…
Danjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (died 1457)
Jan van Eyck was an early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as early Netherlandish painting, and one of the supreme fi…
Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter (born 1359)
Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of medieval Japan. Yoshinori was the son of the third s…
Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (born 1394)
Kyōgoku Takakazu was a Japanese noble member of the Kyōgoku Clan of Japan who served the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori.
Kyōgoku Takakazu, Japanese nobleman
Gilles de Rais, Baron de Rais was a French knight and lord whose estates extended across Brittany, Anjou and Poitou. He served as one of the captains of the French royal army durin…
Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him…
Frederick was the last Burgrave of Nuremberg from 1397 to 1427, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1398, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach from 1420, and Elector of Brandenburg fr…
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1371)