- 1436
Year 1436 was a
leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1436
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April -Paris is recaptured by the French.
*25 June - The Incorporated Guild of Smiths is founded inNewcastle upon Tyne .
*July 5 - TheHussite Wars effectively end inBohemia . Sigismund is accepted as King.
*Alexandru I Aldea is replaced as ruler of Wallachia byVlad II Dracul .
* TheSanta Maria del Fiore Cathedral inFlorence is consecrated.
* TheBosnian language is first mentioned in a document.
* Date of theVisoko m papers (onVisoki ), the last direct sources of the old town of Visoki.
* In the Ming Empire ofChina , the inauguration of theZhengtong Emperor takes place.
* InMing Dynasty China, a significant portion of the southern grain tax is commuted to payments insilver , known as the Gold Floral Silver ("jinhuayin"). This comes about due to officials' and military generals' increasing demands to be paid in silver instead of grain, as commercial transactions draw more silver into nationwide circulation. Some counties have trouble transporting all the required grain to meet their tax quotas, so it makes sense to pay the government in silver, amedium of exchange that is already abundant amongst landowners through their own private commercial affairs.
* The Florentine polymathLeon Battista Alberti begins writing the treatise "On Painting", in which he argues for the importance of mathematical perspective in the creation of three-dimensional vision on a two-dimensional plane. This follows the ideas ofMassacio and his concepts oflinear perspective andvanishing point in artwork.Births
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January 26 -Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset , Lancastrian military commander during the English Wars of the Roses (d.1464 )
*June 6 -Regiomontanus , German astronomer (d.1476 )
*November 16 -Leonardo Loredan , Doge of Venice (d.1521 )
*November 26 - PrincessCatherine of Portugal , writer (d.1463 )
*"date unknown"
**Isabella of Bourbon , wife of Charles the Bold (d.1465 )
**Sheikh Hamdullah , Arabic calligrapher (d.1520 )
**Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros , Spanish Cardinal and statesman (d.1517 )
**Hernando del Pulgar , Spanish writer
**Abi Ahmet Celebi , chief physician ofOttoman empire . Produced a study on kidney and bladder stones and supported the research of the Jewish doctorMusa Colinus ul-Israil on the application of drugs. He founded the first Ottoman medical school.Deaths
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May 4 -Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson , Swedish statesman and rebel leader (murdered)(b.1390
*October 8 -Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (b.1401 )
*December 30 -Louis III, Elector Palatine (b.1378 )
*"date unknown" -Qazi Zadeh , Persian mathematician (b.1364 )
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