1441 Explained

Events

January–December

• February – The Republic of Venice annexes the seigniory of Ravenna, ending the da Polenta Dynasty.
• February 12 – King's College, Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI of England.^[1]
• March 1 – Battle of Samobor: The army of Ulrich II, Count of Celje, defeats the army of Stjepan Banić at Samobor, Croatia in union with Hungary.
• September – The Dutch–Hanseatic War concludes with the Treaty of Copenhagen.^[2]
• November 10 – Alfonso V of Aragon lays siege to Naples.
• November 20 – The Peace of Cremona (1441) ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan.^[3]

Date unknown

• Ouagadougou becomes the capital of the Mossi Kingdoms.
• Two subjects of the Ethiopian Empire attend a Christian ecclesiastical council at Florence as part of negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic Orthodoxy and the Latin Church. This is the earliest recorded contact of the Ethiopian branch of the Coptic Church with Europe.
• A revolt occurs in the Mayan nation of Mayapan; the Maya civilization splits into warring city-states.
• With the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, governor Hacı I Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.
• Nuno Tristão reaches the Ras Nouadhibou (Cabo Branco) on the western coast of Africa. This is probably the first voyage where a caravel is used for maritime exploration.
• The first enslaved black Africans are brought to Europe at Lagos in the Kingdom of Portugal.

Births

• February 9 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, Central Asian poet, politician and writer (d. 1501)
• March 24 – Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (d. 1486)
• June 25 – Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1478–1484) (d. 1484)
• June 27 – John III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, German nobleman (d. 1480)
• July 23 – Danjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (d. 1457)
• November 11 – Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (d. 1483)

Deaths

• March 8 – Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria
• April 1 – Blanche I of Navarre, Queen of Navarre (1425–1441) and Regent of Sicily (1404–1405 and 1408–1415)
• June 14 – Corrado IV Trinci, former lord of Foligno
• July 9 – Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter^[4]
• July 12 – Kyōgoku Takakazu, Japanese noble and vassal of Ashikaga Yoshinori
• July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (b. 1394)
• September 25 – Akamatsu Mitsusuke, Japanese samurai
• October 24 – Adolf, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1434)
• October 27 – Margery Jourdemayne, Englishwoman executed for treasonable witchcraft
• November 18 – Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer^[5]
• December 26 – Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (b. 1383)

Notes and References

1. 'The colleges and halls: King's', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge, ed. J P C Roach (London, 1959), pp. 376-408. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol3/pp376-408 [accessed 5 February 2021]
2. Book: Vaughan, Richard . 2004 . [{{google books|H7VFJAK8LSUC|plainurl=yes}} Philip the Good ]. reprinted new . Boydell Press . 978-0-85115-917-1 . 94.
3. Book: Hazlitt, W. Carew . The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, its Growth, and its Fall, 421–1797. Volume II, 1423–1797 . 1900 . Adam and Charles Black . London . 79–80 .
4. Book: Jan van Eyck. Peter Russell. Delphi Complete Works of Jan van Eyck (Illustrated). 6 August 2020. Delphi Classics. 978-1-913487-28-7. 464.
5. Book: Jane Kelsall. Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447. 2000. Fraternity of the Friends of Saint Albans Abbey. 978-0-9506829-6-9. 9.