1441
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- This page is about the year 1441. See UN Security Council Resolution 1441 for the 2002 call for Iraq to disclose its WMD
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Events
- King's College, University of Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI.
- Ouagadougou becomes the capital of the Mossi Empire.
- Two Ethiopians attend an ecclesiastical council at Florence, as part of the negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic and Roman Catholic Christianity. This is the earliest recorded contact of the Ethiopian Church with Europe.
- Revolt in Yucatán capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states.
- Christopher of Bavaria succeeds Karl Knutsson Borde as king of Sweden.
- Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples after a five month siege.
- With the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, governor Haci Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.
Births
Deaths
- July 9 - Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
- July 12 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (born 1394)
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