1420
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| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1390s 1400s 1410s - 1420s - 1430s 1440s 1450s
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| Years: | 1417 1418 1419 - 1420 - 1421 1422 1423 |
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Year 1420 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1420
- May 21 - Treaty of Troyes. With the Burgundian faction dominant in France, King Charles VI of France acknowledges Henry V of England as his heir and as virtual ruler of most of France.
- May 25 - Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
- October 22 - Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, an envoy of the embassy sent by the Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh (r. 1404–1447), to the Ming Dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424), recorded his sight and travel over a large floating pontoon bridge at Lanzhou (constructed earlier in 1372) as he crossed the Yellow River on this day. He wrote that it was:
"...composed of twenty three boats, of great excellence and strength attached together by a long chain of iron as thick as a man's thigh, and this was moored on each side to an iron post as thick as a man's waist extending a distance of ten cubits on the land and planted firmly in the ground, the boats being fastened to this chain by means of big hooks. There were placed big wooden planks over the boats so firmly and evenly that all the animals were made to pass over it without difficulty."
- The Madeira Islands were discovered by the Portuguese João Gonçalves Zarco.
- Hussite Wars - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor fails at the battle of Vysehrad and is ejected from Bohemia.
- Catherine of Valois marries Henry V of England.
- Henry V of England commences construction of Grace Dieu (ship)
- Construction begins on the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China while the palace complex of the Forbidden City is completed. In this year the Yongle Emperor conferred the title "Beijing" ("Northern Capital") for the Ming Dynasty's new capital city, replacing Nanjing.
| Gregorian calendar | 1420 MCDXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2173 |
| Armenian calendar | 869 ԹՎ ՊԿԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -424 – -423 |
| Berber calendar | 2370 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1964 |
| Burmese calendar | 782 |
| Chinese calendar | 4056/4116-12-16 (己亥年十二月十六日) — to — 4057/4117-11-27(庚子年十一月廿七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1136 – 1137 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1412 – 1413 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5180 – 5181 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1475 – 1476 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1342 – 1343 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4521 – 4522 |
| Holocene calendar | 11420 |
| Iranian calendar | 798 – 799 |
| Islamic calendar | 822 – 823 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 27 (応永27年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2080 (皇紀2080年) |
| Julian calendar | 1465 |
| Korean calendar | 3753 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1963 |
[edit] Births
- November 24 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (died 1473)
- date unknown
- Jean Fouquet, French painter (died 1481)
- Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (died 1480)
[edit] Deaths
- June 11 - John III, Burgrave of Nuremberg (born c.1369)
- August 9 - Pierre d'Ailly, French theologian and cardinal (born 1351)
- September 3 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
- date unknown
- Epiphanius the Wise, Russian saint
- Andrew of Wyntoun, Scottish chronicler (born 1350)af:1420
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