1429

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1390s 1400s 1410s – 1420s – 1430s 1440s 1450s
Years:	1426 1427 1428 – 1429 – 1430 1431 1432

1429 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1429 (MCDXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1429

February 12 – Battle of Rouvray (or "of the Herrings"): English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk at Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart.
April 29 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
April 30 – Siege of Orléans: Joan of Arc enters Orléans with a relief expedition.
May 7 – The Tourelles, the last English siege fortification at Orléans, falls. Joan of Arc becomes the hero of the battle by returning wounded to lead the final charge.
May 8 – The English, weakened by disease and lack of supplies, depart Orléans.
June 18 – Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.
July 17 – Charles VII of France crowned in Rheims.
September 8 – Joan of Arc leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris and is wounded.
November 24 – Joan besieged La Charité.
Fire destroys Turku.
A series of seven customs offices and barriers are installed along the Grand Canal of China, during the reign of the Ming Dynasty ruler Emperor Yongle.

January 17? – Antonio del Pollaiolo, Italian painter, sculptor and jeweller (d. 1498)
January 30 – Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel (d. 1438)
March 23 – Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)
probable – Mino da Fiesole, Florentine sculptor (d. 1484)

February – Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, founder of the Medici dynasty of Florence (b. 1360)
June 22 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1380)
September 28 – Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria (b. 1394)
December 30 – Margaret Holland, English noblewoman (b. 1385)
date unknown – Emperor Yeshaq I of Ethiopia (b. 1414)