1431

This article is about the year 1431.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s  1410s  1420s  – 1430s –  1440s  1450s  1460s
Years:	1428 1429 1430 – 1431 – 1432 1433 1434

1431 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
1431 in poetry

1431 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1431 MCDXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2184
Armenian calendar	880 ԹՎ ՊՁ
Assyrian calendar	6181
Bengali calendar	838
Berber calendar	2381
English Regnal year	9 Hen. 6 – 10 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1975
Burmese calendar	793
Byzantine calendar	6939–6940
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4127 or 4067     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4128 or 4068
Coptic calendar	1147–1148
Discordian calendar	2597
Ethiopian calendar	1423–1424
Hebrew calendar	5191–5192
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1487–1488
- Shaka Samvat	1353–1354
- Kali Yuga	4532–4533
Holocene calendar	11431
Igbo calendar	431–432
Iranian calendar	809–810
Islamic calendar	834–835
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 3 (永享３年)
Julian calendar	1431 MCDXXXI
Korean calendar	3764
Minguo calendar	481 before ROC 民前481年
Thai solar calendar	1973–1974

Year 1431 (MCDXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 9 – Pretrial investigations for Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France under English occupation.
• March 3 – Pope Eugene IV succeeds Pope Martin V, to become the 207th pope.
• March 26 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins.
• May 30 – Nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.
• June 16 – the Teutonic Knights and Švitrigaila sign the Treaty of Christmemel, creating anti-Polish alliance
• September – Battle of Inverlochy: Donald Balloch defeats the Royalists.
• October 30 – Treaty of Medina del Campo, consolidating peace between Portugal and Castille.
• December 16 – Henry VI of England is crowned King of France.

Date unknown

• The University of Poitiers is founded.
• The Ayutthaya Kingdom besieges Angkor and sack the Khmer capital, end of the Khmer Empire.
• Nezahualcoyotl is crowned Tlatoani of the Kingdom of Texcoco.
• Byzantine–Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly Turahan Bey breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the second time and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula.

Births

• January 1 – Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
• November or December – Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (d. 1476)
• date unknown
  • William Elphinstone, Scottish statesman (d. 1514)
  • Ladislaus Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (d. 1457)
• probable
  • William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (d. 1483)
  • John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, English politician (d. 1471)
  • François Villon, French poet

Deaths

• January 25 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
• February 20 – Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
• April 1 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general and religious figure
• April 5 – Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1364)
• May 30 – Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint (b. c. 1412)
• September 6 – Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine soldier and statesman
• date unknown
  • Makhdoom Ali Mahimi, Indian Sufi mystic
  • Stanisław of Skarbimierz, Polish theologian (b. 1360)