1429

This article is about the year 1429. For the number, see 1429 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1390s  1400s  1410s  – 1420s –  1430s  1440s  1450s
Years:	1426 1427 1428 – 1429 – 1430 1431 1432

1429 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1429 in poetry

1429 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1429 MCDXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2182
Armenian calendar	878 ԹՎ ՊՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	6179
Bengali calendar	836
Berber calendar	2379
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 6 – 8 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1973
Burmese calendar	791
Byzantine calendar	6937–6938
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4125 or 4065     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4126 or 4066
Coptic calendar	1145–1146
Discordian calendar	2595
Ethiopian calendar	1421–1422
Hebrew calendar	5189–5190
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1485–1486
- Shaka Samvat	1351–1352
- Kali Yuga	4530–4531
Holocene calendar	11429
Igbo calendar	429–430
Iranian calendar	807–808
Islamic calendar	832–833
Japanese calendar	Shocho 2 / Eikyō 1 (永享元年)
Julian calendar	1429 MCDXXIX
Korean calendar	3762
Minguo calendar	483 before ROC 民前483年
Thai solar calendar	1971–1972

Year 1429 (MCDXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February 12 – Battle of Rouvray (or "of the Herrings"): English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk at Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stewart.
• April 29 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
• April 29 – Siege of Orléans: Joan of Arc enters Orléans with a relief expedition.
• May 7 – The Tourelles, the last English siege fortification at Orléans, falls. Joan of Arc becomes the hero of the battle by returning wounded to lead the final charge.
• May 8 – The English, weakened by disease and lack of supplies, depart Orléans.
• June 18 – Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.
• July 17 – Charles VII of France crowned in Rheims.
• September – Hafsid Saracens attempted to capture Malta but were repelled by its defenders.
• September 8 – Joan of Arc leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris and is wounded.
• November 24 – Joan besieged La Charité.

Date unknown

• Fire destroys Turku.
• A series of seven customs offices and barriers are installed along the Grand Canal of China, during the reign of the Ming dynasty's Yongle Emperor.

Births

• January 17 – Antonio del Pollaiolo, Italian painter, sculptor and jeweller (possible date; d. 1498)
• January 30 – Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel (d. 1438)
• March 23 – Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)
• Peter, Constable of Portugal (d. 1466)
• probable – Mino da Fiesole, Florentine sculptor (d. 1484)

Deaths

• February 20 or 20 – Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, founder of the Medici dynasty of Florence (b. 1360)
• June 22 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1380)
• July 4 – Carlo I Tocco, ruler of Epirus (b. 1372)
• September 28 – Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria (b. 1394)
• October – Alexios IV Megas Komnenos, Empire of Trebizond (b. 1382)
• December 30 – Margaret Holland, English noblewoman (b. 1385)
• date unknown – Emperor Yeshaq I of Ethiopia (b. 1414)