1425

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Calendar year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s
Years:	1422 1423 1424 1425 1426 1427 1428

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1425 in various

Minguo calendar

487 before ROC 民前487年
Nanakshahi calendar	−43
Thai solar calendar	1967–1968
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1551 or 1170 or 398     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1552 or 1171 or 399

Year 1425 (MCDXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar

• November 9 – Kale Kye-Taung Nyo becomes King of Ava by having his lover, Queen Shin Bo-Me, assassinate his 8-year-old nephew, King Min Hla.
• December 9 – The Old University of Leuven, Belgium is founded.
• Date unknown
  • The Maltese people rise up against Don Gonsalvo Monroy, count of Malta. The insurgents repel an attempt by the Viceroy of Sicily to bring the island to order. The Maltese do not submit to Catalan-Aragonese rule, until the Magna Charta Libertatis, granting them their new rights, is delivered to them.
  • Beijing, capital of China, becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Nanjing (estimated date).^[1]
  • By this year, paper currency in China is worth only 0.025% to 0.014% of its original value in the 14th century; this, and the counterfeiting of copper coin currency, will lead to a dramatic shift to using silver as the common medium of exchange in China.
  • Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi's critical history of
    Persia, Zafar Nama, is completed under the auspices of Mirza Ibrahim Sultan, grandson of Timur
    .

• January 5 – Henry IV of Castile (d. 1474)
• Henry Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick, English nobleman (d. 1446
  )
• March 31 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
• April 30 – William III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1445–1482) and Duke of Luxembourg (1457–1482) (d. 1482)
• October 14 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (d. 1499)
• November 18 – Kunigunde of Sternberg, first spouse of King George of Podebrady (d. 1449)
• date unknown
  • Edmund Sutton, English nobleman (d. 1483)
  • Krokodeilos Kladas, Greek military leader (d. 1490)
  • Xicotencatl I, ruler of Tizatlan (in modern-day Mexico) (d. 1522)

Deaths

• January 18 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
• February 27 – Prince Vasily I of Moscow (b. 1371)
• March 17 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1407)
• Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362
  )
• May 29 – Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
• Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noble (b. 1366
  )
• Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350
  )
• August 22 – Eleanor, Princess of Asturias (b. 1423)
• September 8 – King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
• date unknown
  • Madhava of Sangamagrama, Indian mathematician (b. 1350)
  • Margareta, Swedish Sami missionary (b. 1369)
  • Yi Jong Mu, Korean general (b. 1360
    )
  • Parameshvara, Indian mathematician (b. 1360
    )