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.

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)