1434

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s  1410s  1420s  – 1430s –  1440s  1450s  1460s
Years:	1431 1432 1433 – 1434 – 1435 1436 1437

Events

• April 14, The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid.
• May 30, Battle of Lipany in the Hussite Wars
• Jan van Eyck paints the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini
• Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara. In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
• Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia

Births

• March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (died 1443)
• September 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (died 1478)
  • probable
  • Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; died 1494)
  • Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (died 1530)

Deaths

• 30 May
  • Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
  • Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
• June 11 – King Wladislaus II of Poland
• June 19 – Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
• November 12 – King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
• date unknown
  • John I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1381)
  • Amda Iyasus, Emperor of Ethiopia