1443

This article is about the year 1443.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s  1420s  1430s  – 1440s –  1450s  1460s  1470s
Years:	1440 1441 1442 – 1443 – 1444 1445 1446

1443 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
1443 in poetry

1443 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1443 MCDXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2196
Armenian calendar	892 ԹՎ ՊՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	6193
Bengali calendar	850
Berber calendar	2393
English Regnal year	21 Hen. 6 – 22 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1987
Burmese calendar	805
Byzantine calendar	6951–6952
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4139 or 4079     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4140 or 4080
Coptic calendar	1159–1160
Discordian calendar	2609
Ethiopian calendar	1435–1436
Hebrew calendar	5203–5204
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1499–1500
- Shaka Samvat	1365–1366
- Kali Yuga	4544–4545
Holocene calendar	11443
Igbo calendar	443–444
Iranian calendar	821–822
Islamic calendar	846–847
Japanese calendar	Kakitsu 3 (嘉吉３年)
Julian calendar	1443 MCDXLIII
Korean calendar	3776
Minguo calendar	469 before ROC 民前469年
Thai solar calendar	1985–1986

Year 1443 (MCDXLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• July 22 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl (Old Zürich War): The forces of the city of Zürich are defeated but the Old Swiss Confederacy have insufficient strength to besiege and take the city.
• November 8 – Battle of Niš: John Hunyadi and the army of the Crusade of Varna defeat three armies of the Ottoman Empire and capture the city of Niš in modern-day Serbia; Skanderbeg deserts the Ottoman camp and goes to Albania.
• November 28 – Skanderbeg and his forces, rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, liberate Krujë, in Middle Albania, and raise the Albanian flag.

Date unknown

• Portuguese explorer Nuno Tristão penetrates the Arguin Gulf off the west coast of Africa.
• King Sejong the Great establishes Hangul as the native alphabet of the Korean language.
• Vlad II Dracul begins his second term as ruler of Wallachia, succeeding Basarab II.
• The Buddhist Zhihua Temple (智化寺) is built in Beijing at the order of Wang Zhen, chief eunuch at the court of the Zhengtong Emperor of Ming dynasty China.

Births

• January 27 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
• February – Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick (d. 1449)
• February 4 – Philip II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1497)
• February 23 – Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (d. 1490)
• May 17 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1460)
• May 31 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
• September 8 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English Lancastrian leader (d. 1513)
• December 5 – Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
• probable
  • Piero del Pollaiolo, Italian painter (d. 1496)
  • Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and freedom fighting rebel (d. 1492)

Deaths

• January 16 – Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (b. 1370)
• January 28 – Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
• February – Guidantonio da Montefeltro, count of Urbino (b. 1377)
• March 24 – James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371)
• April 12 – Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
• May 9 – Niccolò Albergati, Italian Cardinal and diplomat (b. 1373)
• June 5 – Ferdinand the Holy Prince of Portugal (b. 1402)
• August 16 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
• August 29 – Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra (b. 1409)
• September 18 – Lewis of Luxembourg, Archbishop of Rouen
• date unknown – Infante Diogo, Constable of Portugal
• probable – Zeami Motokiyo, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1363)