1423

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Year 1423 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1423

• April 27 - Hussite Wars - Battle of Horic: The Taborites decisively beat the Utraquists.
• July 31 - Hundred Years' War- Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
• According to the 1421 theory, Zheng He's fleets return to China.

Births

• May 30 - Georg Purbach, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1461)
• June 2 - Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)
• July 3 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
• August 24 - Thomas Rotherham, English cleric (d. 1500)
• November 24 - Baron Raß von Balzers, descendant of Frederick II

Deaths

• May 23 - Avignon Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1328)
• October 20 - Henry Bowet, Archbishop of York
• December 15 - Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
• date unknown - Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1358)

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