1427

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Calendar year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s
Years:	1424 1425 1426 1427 1428 1429 1430

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1427 in various

Minguo calendar

485 before ROC 民前485年
Nanakshahi calendar	−41
Thai solar calendar	1969–1970
Tibetan calendar	阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1553 or 1172 or 400     — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1554 or 1173 or 401

Year 1427 (MCDXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar

• January – Spring – Radu II of Wallachia resumes the throne for the fourth time, but a seven-year struggle for it ends when he is defeated in battle, and probably killed, by Dan II, who resumes the throne for a fifth term.
• House of Balsic's rule of Montenegro comes to an end with the death of Balša III
  .
• crusader
  armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
• August 17 – The first band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizens of Paris.
• October 13 – Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded by the Bishop of Lincoln.

Date unknown

• Gabriel V is elected
  Coptic Church
  for the second time.
• Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava (ancient Burma).
• The Conflict of Druimnacour occurs in Sutherland, Scotland.^[1]
• The first witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
• The
  Order is established in France
  .
• The Celebration of Sant Jordi (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he will later become its patron saint).
• Bremen is expelled from the Hanseatic League
  .
• Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.
• Battle of the Echinades: A Byzantine fleet defeats the fleet of Carlo I Tocco.
• Itzcoatl becomes the 4th Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, after his nephew Chimalpopoca is killed by the Maxtla, at Azcapotzalco.
• Bhaktapur Royal Palace (in Nepal) is built by King Yaksa Malla.

Births

• Ruprecht, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1480
  )
• May 8 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1470)
• May 29 – Françoise d'Amboise, duchess consort of Brittany, co-founder of the first monastery of the Carmelites in France (d. 1485)
• June 22 – Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Italian writer, adviser and spouse of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (d. 1482)
• Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464
  )
• Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496
  )
• November 24 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1473)
• Zhengtong Emperor of China (d. 1464
  )
• November 30 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
• date unknown – Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (d. 1509)

Deaths

• April 17 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)^[2]
• May 7 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
• May 28 – Henry IV, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (b. 1397)
• Despot of Serbia (b. 1377)^[3]
• date unknown
  • Tenochtitlán (b. 1397)^[4]
  • Qu You, Chinese novelist (b. 1341)
• probable
  • Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (b. 1350)
  • Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter
  • Radu II Prasnaglava
    , ruler of Wallachia, probably killed in or after a lost battle

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