1430

Year 1430 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1430

• May 14 - The French first attempt to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.
• May 23 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
• June 14 - William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.
• The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians.
• The Order of the Golden Fleece is founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage.
• Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund of Luxemburg.
• Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin as ruler of Lithuania.
• Optical methods are first used in the creation of art.
• The Janissaries are created.
• Patras, capital of Achea, finally falls to the Byzantine Despotate of Morea.

A map of Europe in 1430 (click image to enlarge).

[edit] Births

• October 16 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
• October 28 - Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1475)
• date unknown - Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord
• probable - Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (d. 1505)

[edit] Deaths

• January 29? - Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (b. 1360)
• August 14 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
• August 18 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)
• October 27 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Prince of Lithuania (b. 1352)
• date unknown
  • Thomas FitzAlan, English nobleman
  • Christine de Pizan, proto-feminist writer

[edit] See also

• List of state leaders in 1430