Events
May 14 – First French attempts 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. First use of optical methods in the creation of art. Janissaries are created.
Births
October 16 – King James II of Scotland (died 1460) October 28 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English politician (died 1475) date unknown – Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord probable – Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (died 1505)
Deaths
January 29? – Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (born 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 (born 1352) date unknown Thomas FitzAlan, English nobleman Christine de Pizan, proto-feminist writer