1429
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1390s 1400s 1410s – 1420s – 1430s 1440s 1450s |
| Years: | 1426 1427 1428 – 1429 – 1430 1431 1432 |
| 1429 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1429 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1429 MCDXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2182 |
| Armenian calendar | 878 ԹՎ ՊՀԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6179 |
| Bengali calendar | 836 |
| Berber calendar | 2379 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Hen. 6 – 8 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1973 |
| Burmese calendar | 791 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6937–6938 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4125 or 4065 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4126 or 4066 |
| Coptic calendar | 1145–1146 |
| Discordian calendar | 2595 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1421–1422 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5189–5190 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1485–1486 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1351–1352 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4530–4531 |
| Holocene calendar | 11429 |
| Igbo calendar | 429–430 |
| Iranian calendar | 807–808 |
| Islamic calendar | 832–833 |
| Japanese calendar | Shocho 2 / Eikyō 1 (永享元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1429 MCDXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3762 |
| Minguo calendar | 483 before ROC 民前483年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1971–1972 |
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Year 1429 (MCDXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- 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 Stewart.
- 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 – Hafsid Saracens attempted to capture Malta but were repelled by its defenders.
- September 8 – Joan of Arc leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris and is wounded.
- November 24 – Joan besieged La Charité.
Date unknown
- 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.
Births
- January 17 – Antonio del Pollaiolo, Italian painter, sculptor and jeweller (possible date; 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)
- Peter, Constable of Portugal (d. 1466)
- probable – Mino da Fiesole, Florentine sculptor (d. 1484)
Deaths
- February 20 or 20 – 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)
- July 4 – Carlo I Tocco, ruler of Epirus (b. 1372)
- September 28 – Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria (b. 1394)
- October – Alexios IV Megas Komnenos, Empire of Trebizond (b. 1382)
- December 30 – Margaret Holland, English noblewoman (b. 1385)
- date unknown – Emperor Yeshaq I of Ethiopia (b. 1414)