1426

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s
Years:	1423 1424 1425 1426 1427 1428 1429

1426 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1426 MCDXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2179
Armenian calendar	875 ԹՎ ՊՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6176
Balinese saka calendar	1347–1348
Bengali calendar	833
Berber calendar	2376
English Regnal year	4  Hen. 6  – 5  Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1970
Burmese calendar	788
Byzantine calendar	6934–6935
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood  Snake) 4123 or 3916     — to — 丙午年 (Fire  Horse) 4124 or 3917
Coptic calendar	1142–1143
Discordian calendar	2592
Ethiopian calendar	1418–1419
Hebrew calendar	5186–5187
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1482–1483
- Shaka Samvat	1347–1348
- Kali Yuga	4526–4527
Holocene calendar	11426
Igbo calendar	426–427
Iranian calendar	804–805
Islamic calendar	829–830
Japanese calendar	Ōei 33 (応永３３年)
Javanese calendar	1341–1342
Julian calendar	1426 MCDXXVI
Korean calendar	3759
Minguo calendar	486 before ROC 民前486年
Nanakshahi calendar	−42
Thai solar calendar	1968–1969
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1552 or 1171 or 399     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1553 or 1172 or 400

Year 1426 ( MCDXXVI ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 6 – Battle of St. James (near Avranches): An English army under John, Duke of Bedford, defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont, forcing the Duke of Brittany to recognize English suzerainty. ^[1]
• c. May 15 – 16 – Kale Kye-Taung Nyo, ruler of the Kingdom of Ava, flees his capital. He is succeeded by Mohnyin Thado, who receives Thinkhaya III of Toungoo.
• June 16 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Usti nad Labem: The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
• July 7 – Battle of Khirokitia: King Janus of Cyprus is defeated and captured by the Mamluks and brought to Egypt, where he is ransomed after ten months.
• Date unknown
  • Castello Orsini-Odescalchi is built in Bracciano, Italy by the Orsini family.
  • Eunuch-dominated secret police start to control the palace guards and imperial workshops, infiltrate the civil service, and head all foreign missions in China. ^[2]

Births

• February 2 – Eleanor of Navarre, queen regnant of Navarre (d. 1479)
• February – Christian of Oldenburg, King of Denmark 1448 – 1481, of Norway 1450 –1481 and of Sweden 1457 – 1464 (d. 1481) ^[3]
• July 13 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1492)
• September 19 – Maria of Cleves, French noble (d. 1487)
• November 30 – Johann IV Roth, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1506)
• date unknown– John II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1488)

Deaths

• March / May – Thomas Hoccleve, English poet (b. c. 1368)
• c. late May – Kale Kye-Taung Nyo, deposed King of Ava (b. c. 1385)
• September 18 – Hubert van Eyck, painter ^[4]
• November 24 – Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter, English Plantagent noblewoman, daughter of John of Gaunt (b. c. 1363)
• December – Pippo Spano, Hungarian military leader (b. 1369)
• December 31 – Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, English nobleman and military leader (b. c. 1377)
• date unknown– Tezozomoc, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco and military leader

References

1. Richard Ernest Dupuy; Trevor Nevitt Dupuy (1993). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present. HarperCollins. p. 451. ISBN   978-0-06-270056-8.
2. Gernet, Jacques (translated by Foster, J. R. and Hartman, Charles) (1936). A History of Chinese Civilization . Cambridge University Press. p. 407.
3. Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 38.
4. Hubert van Eyck (1904). Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. Bates and Guild Company. p. 24.