For alternative meanings, see number 1440.

Events

• February 21 - The Prussian Confederation is formed.
• October 22 - Gilles de Rais confesses and is sentenced to death.

• Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Moctezuma I, Moctezuma Ilhuicamina.
• End of term for Regent of Sweden Karl Knutsson Bonde.
• Murad II lays siege to Belgrade. The city is heavily damaged, but the defenders' use of artillery prevents the Turks from capturing the city.
• Eton College is founded by Henry VI.

Births

• January 22 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
• February 22 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (died 1457)
• Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (died 1531)
• Kabir, Indian mystic (died 1518)
• Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (died 1479)

Deaths

• March 9 - St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (born 1384)
• March 20 - Sigismund I of Lithuania
• September 30 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
• October 26 - Gilles de Rais, French soldier (born 1404)
• November 13 - Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland
• Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg (born 1371)
• Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
• Johann Schiltberger, German traveller and writer (born 1381)
• Giovanni Vitelleschi, Italian bishop and soldier
• Henry Wardlaw, Scottish church leader

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