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1442 1442 250px|thumb|June 24: French troops come to the rescue of Tartas 250px|thumb|March 25: John Hunyadi of Hungary defeats Ottomans at the 'Battle of Hermannstadt (image from the Chronica Hungagorum Year 1442 (MCDXLII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March January 25 – The English Parliament opens at Westminster for a 60-day session, and the House of Commons re-elects William Tresham as its speaker. The Treaty of Nürtingen is signed between the two counts of Württemberg, the brothers Ludwig and Ulrich, dividing the German territory between them.Ludwig I von Württemberg https://www.schloss-urach.de/en/interesting-amusing/figures/ludwig-i-von-wuerttemberg 19 October 2023 schloss-urach.de Urach Residential Palace John Fortescue becomes the new Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, replacing the late John Hody. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography E. W. Ives https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9944 22 September 2005 10.1093/ref:odnb/9944 23 July 2023 January 25 – Two months after the death of the Burmese King Minye Kyawswa I of Ava, his brother-in-law Thihapate of Mohnyin turns down an offer to rule the kingdom, and recommends that Kyswswa's younger brother, Thihathu, Viceroy of Prome, become the new King.Aung-Thwin Michael A. Michael Aung-Thwin Myanmar in the Fifteenth Century University of Hawai'i Press 2017 Honolulu 89–90 978-0-8248-6783-6 February 4 – As part of his campaign to reunite the Christian churches of the world, Pope Eugene IV promulgates the Bull of Union with the Copts (officially, Cantate Domino), an attempted union with the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt. Eugenius IV Pope Pope Eugene IV Norman P. Tanner Decrees of the ecumenical councils 1442 2008-04-10 2 volumes 1990 Georgetown University Press Washington, DC 0-87840-490-2 el, la Ecumenical Council of Florence (1438-1445): Session 11—4 February 1442; Bull of union with the Copts http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/FLORENCE.HTM#5 90003209 https://web.archive.org/web/20190709005029/http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/FLORENCE.HTM#5 2019-07-09 March 25 – Battle of Hermannstadt: After seven days of fighting that began on March 18, John Hunyadi defeats an army of the Ottoman Empire (80,000 strong), led by Mezid Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu in what is now Romania.A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, Vol. I, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), p.337 March 27 – The English Parliament adjourns and King Henry VI gives royal assent to numerous adts passed, including the Treason Act 1442 (making the act of restraining English citizens or possessions within Wales an act punishable as treason) and the Peeresses Act 1441 (requiring that wives of nobles shall be put on trial in the same way as the peers of the realm)Statutes at Large, vol. I, Danby Pickering, Cambridge University Press (1765). April–June April 6 – Thihathu is enthroned as the new Burmese King Narapati I of Ava.Royal Historical Commission of Burma Royal Historical Commission of Burma Hmannan Yazawin 2 1832 Yangon Burmese 2003 Ministry of Information, Myanmar 81 May 8 – In Germany, the Electorate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Pomerania enter into an alliance against the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Stargard.Geschichte in Daten. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Gerhard Heitz Henning Rischer Koehler&Amelang Münster-Berlin 1995 191–192 3-7338-0195-4 German June 2 – After a six-month siege, King Alfonso of Aragon proclaims himself King of Naples. Alfonso allows the French ruler, King René of Anjou, to return to France.cs2 René, Duke of Anjou 2 58–59 June 4 – Erik III is deposed as King of Norway and the nobles vote to invite King Christopher of Sweden to become the new monarch. https://nbl.snl.no/Sigurd_Jonsson Sigurd Jonsson Norsk biografisk leksikon Erik Opsahl 1 June 2018 June 8 – In China, Qian marries the 14-year-old Emperor Yingzong of Ming and becomes the primary Empress Consort. Twitchett Denis C. The Cheng-tung, Ching-t'ai, and T'ien-shun Reigns, 1436-1464 307 Frederick W. Mote Denis C. Twitchett The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1 The Cambridge History of China 7 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1988 9781139054751 10.1017/CHOL9780521243322 June 17 – Friedrich, Duke of Inner Austria is crowned as Romanorum Rex, King of the Germans, and becomes the heir to the Holy Roman Emperor. June 24 – The Siege of Tartas ends in France after almost two years, when French forces come to the relief of Charles II of Albret and force the Gascony rebels and English troops to retreat. July–September July 2 – The coronation of King Christopher of Sweden and Denmark as King of Norway takes place in Oslo. https://snl.no/Erik_av_Pommern Erik Av Pommern Store norske leksikon Erik Opsahl June 1, 2018 2018-03-20 August 29 – Fransez I becomes the new Duke of Brittany upon the death of his father, Yann V. Princess Isabella of Scotland, who had been part of a contract to marry Jean V, arranges to marry Francis I August 30 – Louis IV, Elector Palatine, agrees to serve as the judge in resolving a dispute between Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen and the Archbishop Jakob von Sierck.http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/1442-08-30_1_0_13_5_0_10668_44 RI XIII H. 5 n. 44 Regesta Imperii Online Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz de 29 December 2022 September 2 – John Hunyadi defeats another army of the Ottoman Empire (70,000 strong), led by Hadım Şehabeddin, Beylerbey (or governor) of Rumelia, near the Ialomița River.Camil Muresanu, John Hunyadi: Defender of Christendom (Histria Books, 2018) p.88 Following this, he places Basarab II as ruler of Wallachia."Hunyadi's Campaign of 1448 and the Second Battle of Kosoovo Polje (October 17–20), by Emanuel Constantin Antoche, in Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-Century Crusade, ed. by Norman Housley (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017) p.262 September 15 – Lê Nhân Tông becomes the new Emperor of Vietnam upon the death of his father, Lê Thái Tông.Bruce M. Lockhart and William J. Duiker The A to Z of Vietnam (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010) p.209 October–December October 18 – The University of Ferrara is reopened in Italy, after having been closed for 48 years.Paul F. Grendler, The Universities of the Italian Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) p.101 November 18 – A few days before his 15th birthday, Emperor Yingzong of Ming assumes full control of the Empire of China, two days before the death of his grandmother and regent Empress Dowager Chengxiaozhao. December 13 – King Władysław III of Poland, who had been elected as King of Hungary in 1440, and Elisabeth of Luxembourg, widow of King Albert of Hungary and mother of Ladislaus the Posthumous, whom she arranged to be crowned king, reach an agreement in the Hungaryian city of Győr, brokered by Cardinal Julian Cesarini. Christianson Gerald Cesarini, the conciliar cardinal: the Basel years, 1431–1438 S[ank]t Ottilien EOS-Verlag 1979 978-3-88096-074-9 Elizabeth dies at the age of 33, six days after the meeting, leading to rumors that she had been poisoned by King Wladyslaw. December 18 – In Italy Tomaso di Campofregoso, Doge of the Republic of Genoa, is removed from office by a group of armed men, led by Raffaele Adorno and Giovanni Antonio Fieschi, who invade the Ducal Palace and force him to leave.Sergio Buonadonna Mario Mercenaro Rosso doge: I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797 (Red Doges: The Doges of the Republic of Genoa from 1339 to 1797 2007 De Ferrari Editori Genoa December 19 – Pope Eugene IV issues the papal bull Illius qui se pro divini granting full remission of sins to any Christian who had participated in the Crusades by Prince Henry the Navigator against the Saracens.Monumenta Henricina, VII (Coimbra 1964), no. 228, pp. 336–337. Bullarium patronatus Portugalliae regum in ecclesiis Africae, Asiae atque Oceaniae: bullas, brevia, epistolas, decreta actaque Sanctae Sedis ab Alexandro III ad hoc usque tempus amplectens, Volume 1 (Olisponae: Ex Typographia nationali, 1868), p. 21. Date unknown The community of Rauma, Finland is granted its town rights. The municipality of Juva, Finland is founded. The national law of Kristofers landslag is introduced in Sweden. After being imprisoned (before September) by the Sultan, Vlad II Dracul is temporarily replaced, as ruler of Wallachia, by his son Mircea II. A fourth tower is added to Liverpool Castle in England. Jelena Balšić completes writing the Gorički zbornik manuscripts at her church of St. Mary, on the island of Beška in the Serbian Despotate. Portuguese sailors first arrive at the Senegal River.A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution Green, Toby March 21, 2019 9780226644578 Chicago 1051687994 Births April 13 – Henry IV of Neuhaus, High Treasurer of Bohemia (1485–1503), Burgrave of Prague Castle (1503–1507) (d. 1507) April 15 – John Paston, English noble (d. 1479)Castor Helen 2004a Paston, Sir John (II) (1442–1479) 21512 April 28 – Edward IV, King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 to 9 April 1483 (d. 1483)Penn Thomas The Brothers York 2019 Allen Lane 978-1846146909 8 July 3 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500) July 15 – Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman, eldest son of King George of Podebrady (d. 1496) September 8 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (d. 1513) September 27 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1492) date unknown Ahmad Zarruq, Moroccan scholar and Sufi sheikh (d. 1493) Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian archbishop (d. 1521) Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI Deaths August 29 – Duke John V of Brittany (b. 1389) September 25 – Robert de Morley, 6th Baron Morley, Lord of Morley Saint Botolph (b. 1418) October 18 – Infante João of Portugal (b. 1400) November 14 – Yolande of Aragon, politically active French noblewoman (b. 1384) December 18 – Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371) December 19 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (b. 1409) date unknown Al-Maqrizi, Egyptian Arab historian Ahmed Shah, Sultan of Gujarat Nguyễn Trãi, Vietnamese Confucian scholar. 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