1431

Year 1431 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1431

* January 9 - Pretrial investigations for Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France under English occupation.
* March 3 - Pope Eugene IV succeeds Pope Martin V as the 207th pope.
* March 26 - The trial of Joan of Arc begins.
* May 30 - Nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.
* September - Battle of Inverlochy: Donald Balloch defeats the Royalists.
* The University of Poitiers is founded.
* The Thai sack the Khmer capital of Angkor Thom.

Births

* January 1 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
* November/December - Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (d. 1476)
*"date unknown"
**William Elphinstone, Scottish statesman (d. 1514)
*"probable"
**William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (d. 1483)
**John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, English politician (d. 1471)
**François Villon, French poet

Deaths

* January 25 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
* February 20 - Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
* April 1 - Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese mystic
* April 5 - Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1364)
* May 30 - Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint (b. c. 1412)
*"date unknown"
**Makhdoom Ali Mahimi, Indian Sufi mystic
**Stanisław of Skarbimierz, Polish theologian (b. 1360)