1427

Year 1427 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1427

* August 4 - Hussite Wars - Battle of Tachov: The Hussites decisively beat the crusader armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
* August 17 - The first band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.
* Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
* The House of Balsic's rule of Montenegro comes to an end.
* Bhaktapur Royal Palace in Nepal is built by King Yaksa Malla.
* Gabriel V is elected Patriarch of the Coptic Church for the second time.
* Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava ("ancient Burma").
* The Conflict of Druimnacour occurs in Sutherland, Scotland.
* The first witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
* Celestine Order established in France.
* The Celebration of "Sant Jordi" (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he will later become its patron saint).
* Bremen is expelled from the Hanseatic League.
* Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.

Births

* September 9 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
* October 14 - Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (d. 1499)
* October 26 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
* November 29 - Zhengtong Emperor of China (d. 1464)
* November 30 - Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
*"date unknown"
**Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (d. 1509)

Deaths

* April 17 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
* May 7 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
* August 27 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr (b. 1395)
*"date unknown"
**Chimalpopoca, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (b. 1397)
**Qu You, Chinese novelist (b. 1341)
*"probable"
**Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (b. 1350)
**Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter