1434

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s 1410s 1420s – 1430s – 1440s 1450s 1460s
Years:	1431 1432 1433 – 1434 – 1435 1436 1437

1434 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1434 in poetry

1434 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1434 MCDXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2187
Armenian calendar	883 ԹՎ ՊՁԳ
Assyrian calendar	6184
Bengali calendar	841
Berber calendar	2384
English Regnal year	12 Hen. 6 – 13 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1978
Burmese calendar	796
Byzantine calendar	6942–6943
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4130 or 4070 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4131 or 4071
Coptic calendar	1150–1151
Discordian calendar	2600
Ethiopian calendar	1426–1427
Hebrew calendar	5194–5195
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1490–1491
- Shaka Samvat	1356–1357
- Kali Yuga	4535–4536
Holocene calendar	11434
Igbo calendar	434–435
Iranian calendar	812–813
Islamic calendar	837–838
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 6 (永享６年)
Julian calendar	1434 MCDXXXIV
Korean calendar	3767
Minguo calendar	478 before ROC 民前478年
Thai solar calendar	1976–1977

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

Events

April 14 – The foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral in Nantes, France, is laid.
May 30 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Ultraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.
June 19 or 20 – Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
Late June – Miner Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson begins a Swedish rebellion against king Eric of Pomerania (named the Engelbrekt rebellion after him), eventually leading to the deposition of the king.
July 10–August 9 – Suero de Quiñones and his companions stage the Passo Honroso at the Órbigo in León.
August 16 – King Eric of Pomerania is deposed from the Swedish throne at a meeting in Vadstena. He still retains power in Denmark and Norway, though.
September – Cosimo de' Medici returns to Florence one year, to the day, following his exile by the Alberti and Strozzi faction.
October 19 – The University of Catania is founded in Italy.

Jan van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Portrait.
Explorer Gil Eanes rounds Cape Bojador in Western Sahara, thus destroying the legends of the "Dark Sea".
Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
In Ming Dynasty China, a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout the country until 1448.

March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
September 18 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
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)