1430

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s  1410s  1420s  – 1430s –  1440s  1450s  1460s
Years:	1427 1428 1429 – 1430 – 1431 1432 1433

1430 (MCDXXX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1430th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 430th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1430s decade. As of the start of 1430, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• May 14 – First French attempts to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.
• May 23 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
• June 14 – William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.
• The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians.
• The Order of the Golden Fleece is founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage.
• Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund of Luxemburg.
• Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin as ruler of Lithuania.
• First use of optical methods in the creation of art.
• Janissaries are created.

A map of Europe in 1430 (click image to enlarge).

1430 Media

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  May 23: Joan of Arc captured as prisoner of war.

Births

• October 16 – King James II of Scotland (died 1460)
• October 28 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English politician (died 1475)
• date unknown – Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord
• probable – Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (died 1505)

Deaths

• January 29? – Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (born 1360)
• August 14 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
• August 18 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)
• October 27 – Vytautas the Great, Grand Prince of Lithuania (born 1352)
• date unknown
  • Thomas FitzAlan, English nobleman
  • Christine de Pizan, proto-feminist writer

Related pages

• List of state leaders in 1430