July 22: The last of China's "Treasure Voyages" comes to an end.May 31: Sigismund is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor after 52 years (painting by Albrecht Dürer c.1512).
January 9 – At Krakow, King Wladyslaw II of Poland issues the rule of Neminem captivabimus nisi iure victum[3] barring the arrest of any member of Poland's nobility unless that person has first been found guilty of an offense.
February 15 – Pope Eugene IV withdraws his papal bull of 1431 that had ordered the Council of Basel to be dissolved, and declares "that the said council from its very beginning was and is a legitimate council and it should continue as if no dissolution was made."[6]
March 9 – The Ming Chinese expedition departs from Hormuz Island and begins its four-month voyage home to Beijing.[4]
July 22 – Admiral Zheng He and the crew of the seventh Ming Chinese overseas expedition return to China, arriving at Beijing two and one half years after their departure on January 19, 1411 from Nanjing.[4][17] With the completion of the maritime expedition, the fleet is dispersed, altering the balance of power in the Indian Ocean, and making it easier for Portugal and other Western naval powers to gain dominance over the seas.[18]
September 7 – Cosimo de' Medici, later the unofficial leader of ruler of Florence and patron of Marsilio Ficino, is imprisoned in the Palazzo dei Priori.[20] Initially facing life imprisonment, Medici is then exiled by the Albizzi/Strozzi faction instead. He returns a year later, on October 6, 1434.[21]
September 16 – A legate of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, who had been determined to break up the Council of Basel, arrives at the Council and informs the group that Albergati is ready to negotiate.[22]
October–December
October 5 &ndash (7th day of 9th month of the year Quy Suu); In Hanoi (at the time Dong Kinh) 9-year-old Le Thai Tong becomes the new King of Dai Viet and ruler of northern Vietnam upon the death of his father, Le Loi.[23]
November 30 – After months of negotiations between the Council of Basel and the Bohemian government, the Compactata of Prague is ratified an assembly of Bohemian and Moravian representatives, resolving the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the Hussites.[25]
December 21 – The Parliament of England closes after six months.
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In Ming Dynasty China, cotton is listed as a permanent item of trade, on the tax registers of Songjiang prefecture.[27]
Kalantiaw (of what would later be known as the Philippines) supposedly promulgates the legal code eventually referred to as the Code of Kalantiaw. Modern historians doubt its existence.[28]
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^von Friedrich Prinz, ed. (1993). Deutsche Geschichte im Osten Europas: Böhmen und Mähren. Siedler Verlag. p. 158.
^Brzezinski, Mark F. (1991). "Constitutional Heritage and Renewal: The Case of Poland". Virginia Law Review. 77 (1): 49–112. doi:10.2307/1073115. JSTOR1073115.
^ abcMills, J. V. G. (1970). Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-0-521-01032-0.
^ abVladimir Shirogorov, War on the Eve of Nations: Conflicts and Militaries in Eastern Europe, 1450–1500 (Lexington Books, 2021) pp.173-174 [ISBN 9781793622419]
^F. Donald Logan, A History of the Church in the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2002) p.334 ISBN 9780415132893
^Faruk Sümer, Kara Koyunlular (Başlangıçtan Cihan-Şah’a kadar) ("The Black Sheep, from the Beginning to Cihan-Shah", Volume I (Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Printing House, 1967) p.143
^ abDreyer, Edward L. (2007). Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433. New York: Pearson Longman. pp. 162–163. ISBN 978-0-321-08443-9.
^Marshall Cavendish Corporation (2005). Explorers and Exploration. Marshall Cavendish. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-0-7614-7538-5.
^Hermann Aubin and Ludwig Petry (eds.): Von der Urzeit bis zum Jahre 1526 (History of Silesia, vol. 1), Edition Brentano, Sigmaringen, 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6341-5, pp. 171-212.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1891). "Hunt, Roger". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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