February 2 – The Catalonia earthquake takes place in the Catalonian region of Spain during Candlemas, estimated later at 6.5 magnitude, with extreme damage to the city of Roussillon and to the village of Queralbs.[2] The quake collapses a church in Puigcerdà, killing more than 100 people, and 1,000 overall.[3]
The Fifth Parliament of King Henry VI of England closes its session, as the King grants royal assent to the Commissioners of Sewers Act 1427, the Wages of Artificers Act granting the justices of peace power to "assign the wages of artificers and workmen by proclamation", and the Assizes Act and the Exigent on Indictment Act which both set statutes of limitation on certain proceedings.
April 22 – After an attack by the Ottoman Empire on Venetian outposts on the Greek island of Euboea, the Republic of Venice, presided over by the Doge Francesco Foscari, authorizes Admiral Andrea Mocenigo to organize 15 warships to hunt and destroy the Ottoman raiders.[9]
April 29 – The coronation of the Vietnamese rebel leader Le Loi as the King of Dai Viet takes place in Hanoi (at the time referred to as Thang Long). King Le Loi renames the Viet capital as "Dong Kinh".[10]
May 13 – Joan of Arc makes her first attempt to reach the Armagnac court at Chinon, arriving at Vaucouleurs speaking to Robert de Baudricourt, captain of the royal garrison, and tells him that God told her in a vision that she had a mission to help restore the Dauphin Charles to the throne. Baudricourt initially declines her request to be given an escort to visit Charles in person.[11][12]
June 15 – In second bombardment of Copenhagen by the Hanseatic League, all but three of the Danish Navy's ships are destroyed by the Hanseatic cannons, capable of shooting aartillery at greater distances than Denmark is technologically capable of achieving.
October 21 – Siege of Orléans: After four days of bombardment, English troops attempt an assault on the boulevart of the city walls but the French defenders hold the attackers back with missile fire, rope nets, scalding oil, hot coals and quicklime.[18] p.383 [17]
^Carmen Olivera, et al., [url=http://www.igc.cat/web/files/IGC_2006_sismologia_segles.pdf Els terratrèmols dels segles XIV i XV a Catalunya] (The Earthquakes of the 14th and 14th century in Catalonia), (Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya]], 2006) ISBN 84-393-6961-1 |editorial=[[( |isbn=84-393-6961-1}}
^Dreyer, Edward L. (2007). Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433. New York: Pearson Longman. p. 142. ISBN 9780321084439..
^Dreyer, Edward L. (2007). Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433. New York: Pearson Longman. pp. 135 & 144. ISBN 9780321084439..
^"Otto II. und Casimir VI." in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Vol. 25, ed. by Gottfried von Bülow (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1887) pp. 785–787
^John Julius , A History of Venice (Vintage Books, 1989.
^Kenneth M. Setton, The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Volume II: The Fifteenth Century (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1978) p.37
^Kathlene Baldanza, Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1-316-53131-0
^Larissa Juliet Taylor, The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc (Yale University Press, 2009)
^"Appenzell Wars (1401-1429)" in Historical Dictionary of Switzerland online
^Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VII (in Polish). Warszawa. 1886. p. 813.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries, Volume VII)
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