1430

Year 1430 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1430

* May 14 - The French first attempt to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.
* May 23 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
* June 14 - William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.
* The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians.
* The Order of the Golden Fleece is founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage.
* Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund of Luxemburg.
* Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin as ruler of Lithuania.
* Optical methods are first used in the creation of art.
* The Janissaries are created.
* Patras, capital of Achea, finally falls to the Byzantine Despotate of Morea.

Births

* October 16 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
* October 28 - Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1475)
*"date unknown" - Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord
*"probable" - Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (d. 1505)

Deaths

* January 29? - Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (b. 1360)
* August 14 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
* August 18 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)
* October 27 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Prince of Lithuania (b. 1352)
*"date unknown"
**Thomas FitzAlan, English nobleman
**Christine de Pizan, proto-feminist writer

ee also

* List of state leaders in 1430