1434

Year 1434 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.:"For the controversial book by Gavin Menzies, see: ."

Events of 1434

* April 14 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
* May 30 - Hussite Wars - Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Ultraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.
* 10 July to 9 August, Suero de Quiñones and his companions stage the "Passo Honroso" in León.
* Jan van Eyck paints "The Wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami".
* Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara. In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
* Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
* In Ming Dynasty China, a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout China, a bad spell that will last until 1448.
* Cosimo de' Medici returns to Florence one year, to the day, following his exile the previous September by the Alberti and Strozzi faction.

Ongoing

* Council of Florence (1431-1445)

Births

* March 19 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
* September 23 - Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
**"probable"
**Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; d. 1494)
**Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (d. 1530)
*September 18 - Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. September 3, 1467)

Deaths

*30 May
**Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
**Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
*June 11 - King Wladislaus II of Poland
*June 19 - Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
*November 12 - King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
*"date unknown"
**John I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1381)
**Amda Iyasus, Emperor of Ethiopia