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Year 1434 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1434

April 14 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
May 30 - Hussite Wars - Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Ultraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.
Jan van Eyck paints The Wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami.
Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara. In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
In Ming Dynasty China, a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout China, a bad spell that will last until 1448.

Ongoing

Council of Florence (1431-1445)

Births

March 19 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)

September 23 - Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)

probable
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; d. 1494)
Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (d. 1530)

Cosimo de Medici

Deaths

30 May

Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)

June 11 - King Wladislaus II of Poland

June 19 - Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia

November 12 - King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)

date unknown

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