1434

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades: 1400s  1410s  1420s  – 1430s –  1440s  1450s  1460s
Years: 1431 1432 1433 – 1434 – 1435 1436 1437

Events

  • April 14, The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid.
  • May 30, Battle of Lipany in the Hussite Wars
  • Jan van Eyck paints the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini
  • Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara. In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
  • Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
1434 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1434
MCDXXXIV
Ab urbe condita2187
Armenian calendar883
ԹՎ ՊՁԳ
Assyrian calendar6184
Balinese saka calendar1355–1356
Bengali calendar841
Berber calendar2384
English Regnal year12 Hen. 6 – 13 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar1978
Burmese calendar796
Byzantine calendar6942–6943
Chinese calendar癸丑年 (Water Ox)
4130 or 4070
    — to —
甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4131 or 4071
Coptic calendar1150–1151
Discordian calendar2600
Ethiopian calendar1426–1427
Hebrew calendar5194–5195
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1490–1491
 - Shaka Samvat1355–1356
 - Kali Yuga4534–4535
Holocene calendar11434
Igbo calendar434–435
Iranian calendar812–813
Islamic calendar837–838
Japanese calendarEikyō 6
(永享６年)
Javanese calendar1349–1350
Julian calendar1434
MCDXXXIV
Korean calendar3767
Minguo calendar478 before ROC
民前478年
Nanakshahi calendar−34
Thai solar calendar1976–1977
Tibetan calendar阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1560 or 1179 or 407
    — to —
阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1561 or 1180 or 408

Births

  • March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (died 1443)
  • September 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (died 1478)
    • probable
    • Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; died 1494)
    • Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (died 1530)

Deaths