1429

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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's Yongle Emperor.

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)

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