1427

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1390s  1400s  1410s  – 1420s –  1430s  1440s  1450s
Years:	1424 1425 1426 – 1427 – 1428 1429 1430

Events

• August 4 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Tachov The Hussites decisively beat the crusader armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
• August 17 – First band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.
• Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
• Balsics rule of Montenegro comes to an end.
• Bhaktapur Royal Palace in Nepal is built by King Yaksa Malla.
• Gabriel V elected Patriarch of the Coptic Church for the second time.
• Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava (ancient Burma).
• Conflict of Druimnacour in Sutherland, Scotland.
• First witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
• Celestine Order established in France.
• Celebration of Sant Jordi (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he would later become its patron saint).
• Bremen is expelled from the Hanseatic League.
• Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.

Births

• September 9 – Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (died 1464)
• October 14 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (died 1499)
• October 26 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (died 1496)
• November 29 – Zhengtong Emperor of China (died 1464)
• November 30 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (died 1492)
• date unknown
  • Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (d. 1509)

Deaths

• April 17 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
• May 7 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
• August 27 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr (born 1395)
• date unknown
  • Chimalpopoca, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (born 1397)
  • Qu You, Chinese novelist (born 1341)
• probable
  • Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (born 1350)
  • Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter