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
| Years: 1438 1439 1440 - 1441 - 1442 1443 1444 | |
| Decades: 1410s 1420s 1430s - 1440s - 1450s 1460s 1470s | |
| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century | |
Events
- June 24 - Eton College founded.
- 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 Devlet Haci Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.
Deaths
- July 9 - Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
- July 12 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Ashikaga shogunaf:1441
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