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John Plantagenet, duke of Bedford, returns from France, reaching London in January. He concludes an alliance with his brother Gloucester, effects a reconciliation between Gloucester and Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, who is chancellor of England, and knights the infant king Henry VI.
Denmark's Erik VII launches a second war against the counts of Holstein over the issue of who shall have suzerainty over Schleswig. The north German towns of the Hanseatic League side with the counts against Erik, whose preferential policy toward Danish merchants and artisans threatens the League's trading interests (see 1428).
Vietnamese forces under the command of Le Loi continue to drive out the Chinese, capturing Dong Kinh (later Hanoi) (see 1418; 1428).
Louvain University has its beginnings.
Painting: Virgin Enthroned by Florentine painter Masaccio (Tomasso di Giovanni di Simone Cassai), 24, for the altarpiece of Pisa's Church of the Carmine.
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This article is about the year 1426.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1390s 1400s 1410s – 1420s – 1430s 1440s 1450s |
| Years: | 1423 1424 1425 – 1426 – 1427 1428 1429 |
| 1426 by topic |
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| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
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| 1426 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1426 MCDXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2179 |
| Armenian calendar | 875 ԹՎ ՊՀԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6176 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -418 – -417 |
| Bengali calendar | 833 |
| Berber calendar | 2376 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Hen. 6 – 5 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1970 |
| Burmese calendar | 788 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6934 – 6935 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十一月廿三日 (4062/4122-11-23) — to —
丙午年十二月初三日(4063/4123-12-3) |
| Coptic calendar | 1142 – 1143 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1418 – 1419 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5186 – 5187 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1482 – 1483 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1348 – 1349 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4527 – 4528 |
| Holocene calendar | 11426 |
| Iranian calendar | 804 – 805 |
| Islamic calendar | 829 – 830 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 33 (応永33年) |
| Korean calendar | 3759 |
| Minguo calendar | 486 before ROC 民前486年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1969 |
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Year 1426 (MCDXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- 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 – The Battle of Chirokitia is fought.
Date unknown
- "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, King of Denmark 1448–1481, of Norway 1450–1481 and of Sweden 1457–1464 (d. 1481)
- date unknown
Deaths
- December – Pipo of Ozora, Hungarian military leader
- December 31 – Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter (b. c. 1377)
- date unknown
- Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of John of Gaunt
- Tezozomoc, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco
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