Explore 65 historical events from 1440–1449.
Boček IV of Poděbrady, was, by title, the last member of the Bohemian noble family of Poděbrady, who were descended from the Lords of Kunštát.
Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (died 1496)
Galeotto I Pico della Mirandola was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, Signore of Mirandola and Concordia. He was noted by contemporaries for his tyranny. The son of Gianfrancesc…
Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (died 1499)
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford,, the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Howard, a first cousin of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was one of the pr…
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (died 1513)
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, KG, was a major magnate in 15th-century England. He was the son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Alice Chaucer, the daughter of…
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (died 1491)
John V, sometimes numbered as VI, bynamed John the Wise, was Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort from 1399 to his death. His rule coincided with the height of the Hundred Years'…
John V, duke of Brittany (born 1389)
Infante John, Constable of Portugal was a Portuguese infante (prince) of the House of Aviz, Constable of Portugal and master of the Portuguese Order of St. James (Santiago). In Por…
Infante João of Portugal (born 1400)
Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and claimant to the French throne from 1422 to 1453 under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes. He became k…
King Henry VI of England lays the foundation stone of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Danjong, personal name Yi Hong-wi, was the sixth monarch of Joseon. He ascended to the throne at the age of 11, upon the death of his sickly father, King Munjong. Three years later…
Danjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (died 1457)
Jan van Eyck was an early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as early Netherlandish painting, and one of the supreme fi…
Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter (born 1359)
Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of medieval Japan. Yoshinori was the son of the third s…
Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (born 1394)
Kyōgoku Takakazu was a Japanese noble member of the Kyōgoku Clan of Japan who served the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori.
Kyōgoku Takakazu, Japanese nobleman
Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye Next Westminster" was an English woman who was accused of "false belief and witchcraft". She was probably sentenced by a church court; no r…
Margery Jourdemayne, executed for treasonable witchcraft
Gilles de Rais, Baron de Rais was a French knight and lord whose estates extended across Brittany, Anjou and Poitou. He served as one of the captains of the French royal army durin…
Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him…
Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, called "the Rich" was the second son of Louis I of Hesse and his wife Anna of Saxony.
Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (died 1483)
Frederick was the last Burgrave of Nuremberg from 1397 to 1427, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1398, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach from 1420, and Elector of Brandenburg fr…
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1371)
Reynold Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthyn, a powerful Welsh marcher lord, succeeded to the title on his father's death in July 1388.
Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, Welsh soldier and politician (born 1362)
Gilles de Rais, Baron de Rais was a French knight and lord whose estates extended across Brittany, Anjou and Poitou. He served as one of the captains of the French royal army durin…
Gilles de Rais, French lord (born c. 1405)