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Former Venetian admiral Carlo Zeno dies at his native Venice March 9 at age 83, having returned to the city 8 years ago after expelling the Genoese from Cyprus.
The 15-year-old Jacoba of Bavaria marries her cousin Johannes IV, duke of Brabant, in March and fights against her paternal uncle Johann of Bavaria for control of Holland (see 1417; 1419).
France's royal family flees to the south as Burgundian forces regain power and massacre Armagnacs at Paris.
Rouen falls to England's Henry V December 31 after a 2-month siege in which the English have starved out a town as large as London (see 1419).
The Muslim ruler of Fez in Morocco gains support from the Muslim king of Granada in an effort to retake the Moroccan city of Ceuta from the Portuguese, who captured it 3 years ago. The Portuguese prince Henrique rushes with reinforcements to relieve the siege of the city, finds that its garrison has beaten off the attackers, proposes an attack on Granada, but is ordered by his father, João I, to return home (see 1437).
Vietnamese nationalists begin a resistance movement against the Chinese, who have occupied their country since 1407. Led by landowner Le Loi in Thanh Hoa Province south of the Red River delta, they will prevail (see 1426).
The Decameron completed by Giovanni Boccaccio in 1353 is published for the first time at Venice but only in a strictly censored version.
Japan's upper classes take up the nō drama that was pioneered in the last century (see 1383); Motokiyo Zeami, now 55, has formalized the symbolic drama originally played by farmers in the 11th century, and he receives support from the Ashikaga shōgun (see Kabuki, 1603).
The doge's palace at Venice receives a new façade that will endure for more than 580 years (see 976). Dating to the 9th century and rebuilt in later centuries, the palazzo ducale will be extended toward the Piazetta in 1424, and the Foscari Arch will be completed in 1471 (see 1520).
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