1427

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

1427 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1427 MCDXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2180
Armenian calendar	876 ԹՎ ՊՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	6177
Balinese saka calendar	1348–1349
Bengali calendar	834
Berber calendar	2377
English Regnal year	5  Hen. 6  – 6  Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1971
Burmese calendar	789
Byzantine calendar	6935–6936
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire  Horse) 4124 or 3917     — to — 丁未年 (Fire  Goat) 4125 or 3918
Coptic calendar	1143–1144
Discordian calendar	2593
Ethiopian calendar	1419–1420
Hebrew calendar	5187–5188
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1483–1484
- Shaka Samvat	1348–1349
- Kali Yuga	4527–4528
Holocene calendar	11427
Igbo calendar	427–428
Iranian calendar	805–806
Islamic calendar	830–831
Japanese calendar	Ōei 34 (応永３４年)
Javanese calendar	1342–1343
Julian calendar	1427 MCDXXVII
Korean calendar	3760
Minguo calendar	485 before ROC 民前485年
Nanakshahi calendar	−41
Thai solar calendar	1969–1970
Tibetan calendar	阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1553 or 1172 or 400     — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1554 or 1173 or 401

The Ming dynasty Xuande Emperor paints a picture of his dogs.

Year 1427 ( MCDXXVII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January – Spring – Radu II of Wallachia resumes the throne for the fourth time, but a seven-year struggle for it ends when he is defeated in battle, and probably killed, by Dan II, who resumes the throne for a fifth term.
• April – The House of Balsic's rule of Montenegro comes to an end with the death of Balša III.
• August 4 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Tachov: The Hussites decisively beat the crusader armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
• August 17 – The first band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizens of Paris.
• October 13 – Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded by the Bishop of Lincoln.

Date unknown

• Gabriel V is elected Patriarch of the Coptic Church for the second time.
• Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava (ancient Burma ).
• The Conflict of Druimnacour occurs in Sutherland, Scotland. ^[1]
• The first witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
• The Celestine Order is established in France.
• The Celebration of Sant Jordi (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he will later become its patron saint).
• Bremen is expelled from the Hanseatic League.
• Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.
• Battle of the Echinades: A Byzantine fleet defeats the fleet of Carlo I Tocco.
• Itzcoatl becomes the 4th Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, after his nephew Chimalpopoca is killed by the Maxtla, at Azcapotzalco.
• Bhaktapur Royal Palace (in Nepal) is built by King Yaksa Malla.

Births

• February 27 – Ruprecht, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1480)
• May 8 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1470)
• May 29 – Françoise d'Amboise, duchess consort of Brittany, co-founder of the first monastery of the Carmelites in France (d. 1485)
• June 22 – Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Italian writer, adviser and spouse of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (d. 1482)
• September 9 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
• October 26 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
• November 24 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1473)
• November 29 – Zhengtong Emperor of China (d. 1464)
• November 30 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
• date unknown– Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (d. 1509)

Deaths

• April 17 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403) ^[2]
• May 7 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
• May 28 – Henry IV, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (b. 1397)
• July 19 – Stefan Lazarević, Despot of Serbia (b. 1377) ^[3]
• date unknown
  • Chimalpopoca, Aztec Tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlán (b. 1397) ^[4]
  • Qu You, Chinese novelist (b. 1341)
• probable
  • Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (b. 1350)
  • Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter
  • Radu II Prasnaglava, ruler of Wallachia, probably killed in or after a lost battle

References

1. The History of the Feuds and Conflicts Among the Clans in the Northern Parts of Scotland and in the Western Isles: from the year M.XX1 unto M.B.C.XIX, now first published from a manuscript wrote in the reign of King James VI. Foulis press, 1764.
2. Jean de Wavrin (1879). Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne, à présent nommé Engleterre. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. p. 223.
3. John V. A. Fine; John Van Antwerp Fine (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan Press. p. 525. ISBN   0-472-08260-4.
4. "Chimalpopoca, "Escudo humeante (1417-1426)" [Chimalpopoca, “Smoking Shield" (1417-1426)]. Arqueologia Mexico (in Spanish). July 2, 2016.