1433

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Year 1433 (MCDXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• Winter – Much of the English town of Alnwick in Northumbria is burnt by a Scottish raiding party.
• May 31 – Sigismund is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. There has been no crowned Emperor since the death of his father, Charles IV, in 1378.
• August 14 – Edward I becomes King of Portugal.
• September – Cosimo de' Medici, later the de facto ruler of Florence and patron of Marsilio Ficino, is exiled by the Albizzi/Strozzi faction. (Cosimo returns a year later, to the day, in 1434).

Date unknown

• The Ming Dynasty in China disbands their naval fleet after the last great maritime expedition led by Admiral Zheng He, altering the balance of power in the Indian Ocean and making it easier for Portugal and other Western naval powers to gain dominance over the seas.
• In Ming Dynasty China, cotton is listed as a permanent item of trade on the tax registers of Songjiang prefecture.

Births

• June 23 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
• October 19 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
• November 10 – Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest and monk (d. 1527)
  • László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (d. 1457)
  • Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden in 1465
  • Stephen III the Great, Prince of Moldavia (1457-1504)

Deaths

• April 14 – Lidwina, Dutch saint (b. 1380)
• August 14 – King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
• August 17 – Jan of Tarnów, Polish nobleman (b. 1367)
• December 1 – Emperor Go-Komatsu, the 100th emperor of Japan (b. 1377)
• date unknown – Zheng He, Chinese explorer (b. 1371)

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