1441

This page is about the year 1441. See UN Security Council Resolution 1441 for the 2002 call for Iraq to disclose its WMD

Years: 1438 1439 1440 - 1441 - 1442 1443 1444

Decades: 1410s 1420s 1430s - 1440s - 1450s 1460s 1470s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

* King's College, University of Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI.
* Ouagadougou becomes the capital of the Mossi Empire.
* Two Ethiopians attend an ecclesiastical council at Florence, as part of the negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic and Roman Catholic Christianity. This is the earliest recorded contact of the Ethiopian Church with Europe.
* Revolt in Yucatán capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states.
* Christopher of Bavaria succeeds Karl Knutsson Borde as king of Sweden.
* Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples after a five month siege.
* With the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, governor Haci Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.

Births

Deaths

* July 9 - Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
* July 12 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (born 1394)

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