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For alternative meanings, see number 1440.
| 1440 by topic |
| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
1440 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1440
MCDXL |
| Ab urbe condita |
2193 |
| Armenian calendar |
889
ԹՎ ՊՁԹ |
| Chinese calendar |
4136 – 4137
己未 – 庚申 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1432 – 1433 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5200 – 5201 |
| Hindu calendars |
|
| - Vikram Samvat |
1495 – 1496 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1362 – 1363 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4541 – 4542 |
| Iranian calendar |
818 – 819 |
| Islamic calendar |
844 – 845 |
Events
- February 21 - The Prussian Confederation is formed.
- September 13 - Gilles de Rais is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
- October 22 - Gilles de Rais confesses and is sentenced to death.
- Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Moctezuma I, Moctezuma Ilhuicamina.
- End of term for Regent of Sweden Karl Knutsson Bonde.
- Murad II lays siege to Belgrade. The city is heavily damaged, but the defenders' use of artillery prevents the Turks from capturing the city.
- Eton College is founded by Henry VI.
- Sir Richard Molyneux appointed constable of Liverpool Castle.
Births
- January 22 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
- February 22 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (died 1457)
- Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (died 1531)
- Kabir, Indian mystic (died 1518)
- Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (died 1479)
Deaths
- March 9 - St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (born 1384)
- March 20 - Sigismund I of Lithuania
- September 30 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
- October 26 - Gilles de Rais, French soldier (born 1404)
- November 13 - Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland
- Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg (born 1371)
- Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Johann Schiltberger, German traveller and writer (born 1381)
- Giovanni Vitelleschi, Italian bishop and soldier
- Henry Wardlaw, Scottish church leader