1440s

The 1440s was a decade that began on 1 January 1440 and ended on 31 December 1449.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s 1420s 1430s – 1440s – 1450s 1460s 1470s
Years:	1440 1441 1442 1443 1444 1445 1446 1447 1448 1449
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

• The Coptic Church of Ethiopia contacts the Roman Catholic Church for the first time.
• The empire of the Maya breaks up into many little kingdoms.
• The Ottoman Empire starts to become weak.
• The Korean alphabet, the Hangul, is invented.

Births

• King Ivan III of Russia
• King Edward IV of England
• Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England
• Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter
• Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia, king in the Solomonid dynasty.

Deaths

• Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
• Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
• Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden