1441

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s  1420s  1430s  – 1440s –  1450s  1460s  1470s
Years:	1438 1439 1440 – 1441 – 1442 1443 1444

Events of 1441

• King's College, University of Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI.
• Ouagadougou becomes the capital of the Mossi Empire.
• Two Ethiopians attend an ecclesiastical council at Florence, as part of the negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic and Roman Catholic Christianity. This is the earliest recorded contact of the Ethiopian Church with Europe.
• Revolt in Yucatán capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states.
• Christopher of Bavaria succeeds Karl Knutsson Borde as king of Sweden.
• Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples after a five month siege.
• With the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, governor Haci Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.
• The Republic of Venice annexes the seigniory of Ravenna, ending the Da Polenta dynasty.

1441 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1441 MCDXLI
Ab urbe condita	2194
Armenian calendar	890 ԹՎ ՊՂ
Assyrian calendar	6191
Bahá'í calendar	-403–-402
Bengali calendar	848
Berber calendar	2391
English Regnal year	19 Hen. 6 – 20 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1985
Burmese calendar	803
Byzantine calendar	6949–6950
Chinese calendar	庚申年十二月初九日 (4077/4137-12-9) — to — 辛酉年閏十一月十八日 (4078/4138-intercalary 11-18)
Coptic calendar	1157–1158
Ethiopian calendar	1433–1434
Hebrew calendar	5201–5202
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1497–1498
- Shaka Samvat	1363–1364
- Kali Yuga	4542–4543
Holocene calendar	11441
Iranian calendar	819–820
Islamic calendar	844–845
Japanese calendar	[[Kakitsu|Template:Japanese era]] (Template:Japanese era年)
Korean calendar	3774
Minguo calendar	471 before ROC 民前471年
Thai solar calendar	1984

Births

• February 9 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, politician and poet (died 1501)

Deaths

• January 14 – Corrado IV Trinci, former lord of Foligno
• July 9 – Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
• July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (born 1394)