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| Gregorian calendar | 1426 MCDXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2179 |
| Armenian calendar | 875 ԹՎ ՊՀԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6176 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1347–1348 |
| Bengali calendar | 833 |
| Berber calendar | 2376 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Hen. 6 – 5 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1970 |
| Burmese calendar | 788 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6934–6935 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4123 or 3916 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4124 or 3917 |
| Coptic calendar | 1142–1143 |
| Discordian calendar | 2592 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1418–1419 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5186–5187 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1482–1483 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1347–1348 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4526–4527 |
| Holocene calendar | 11426 |
| Igbo calendar | 426–427 |
| Iranian calendar | 804–805 |
| Islamic calendar | 829–830 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 33 (応永３３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1341–1342 |
| Julian calendar | 1426 MCDXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3759 |
| Minguo calendar | 486 before ROC 民前486年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −42 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1968–1969 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1552 or 1171 or 399 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1553 or 1172 or 400 |
Year 1426 (MCDXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]- March 6 – Battle of St. James (near Avranches): An English army under John, Duke of Bedford, defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont, forcing the Duke of Brittany to recognize English suzerainty.[1]
- c. May 15–16 – Kale Kye-Taung Nyo, ruler of the Kingdom of Ava, flees his capital. He is succeeded by Mohnyin Thado, who receives Thinkhaya III of Toungoo.
- June 16 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Usti nad Labem: The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
- July 7 – Battle of Khirokitia: King Janus of Cyprus is defeated and captured by the Mamluks and brought to Egypt, where he is ransomed after ten months.
- Date unknown
- Castello Orsini-Odescalchi is built in Bracciano, Italy by the Orsini family.
- Eunuch-dominated secret police start to control the palace guards and imperial workshops, infiltrate the civil service, and head all foreign missions in China.[2]
Births
[edit]- February 2 – Eleanor of Navarre, queen regnant of Navarre (d. 1479)
- February – Christian of Oldenburg, King of Denmark 1448–1481, of Norway 1450–1481 and of Sweden 1457–1464 (d. 1481)[3]
- July 13 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1492)
- September 19 – Maria of Cleves, French noble (d. 1487)
- November 30 – Johann IV Roth, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1506)
- date unknown – John II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1488)
Deaths
[edit]- March / May – Thomas Hoccleve, English poet (b. c. 1368)
- c. late May – Kale Kye-Taung Nyo, deposed King of Ava (b. c. 1385)
- September 18 – Hubert van Eyck, painter[4]
- November 24 – Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter, English Plantagent noblewoman, daughter of John of Gaunt (b. c. 1363)
- December – Pippo Spano, Hungarian military leader (b. 1369)
- December 31 – Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, English nobleman and military leader (b. c. 1377)
- date unknown – Tezozomoc, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco and military leader
References
[edit]- ^ Richard Ernest Dupuy; Trevor Nevitt Dupuy (1993). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present. HarperCollins. p. 451. ISBN 978-0-06-270056-8.
- ^ Gernet, Jacques (translated by Foster, J. R. and Hartman, Charles) (1936). A History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge University Press. p. 407.
- ^ Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 38.
- ^ Hubert van Eyck (1904). Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. Bates and Guild Company. p. 24.