1426

Year 1426 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1426

* March 6 - Battle of St. James (near Avranches): An English army under John, Duke of Bedford defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont, forcing the Duke of Brittany to recognize English suzerainty.
* June 16 - Hussite Wars - Battle of Usti nad Labem: The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
* July 7 - Battle of Chirokitia
* "Castello Orsini-Odescalchi" is built in Bracciano, Italy by the Orsini family.
*Eunuch-dominated secret police start to control the palace guards and imperial workshops, infiltrate the civil service and head all foreign missions in China.

Births

* February - Christian of Oldenburg, later King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
*"date unknown"
**William Brandon, English nobleman (d. 1485)
**John II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1488)
**Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1492)

Deaths

*December - Pipo of Ozora, Hungarian military leader
* December 31 - Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter (born c. 1377)
*"date unknown"
**Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of John of Gaunt
**Tezozomoc, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco