1441

This page is about the year 1441. See UN Security Council Resolution 1441 for the 2002 call for Iraq to disclose its WMD

Events

• June 24 - Eton College founded.
• Ouagadougou becomes the capital of the Mossi Empire.
• Two Ethiopians attend an ecclesiastical council at Florence, as part of the negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic and Roman Catholic Christianity. This is the earliest recorded contact of the Ethiopian Church with Europe.
• Revolt in Yucatán capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states.
• Christopher of Bavaria succeeds Karl Knutsson Borde as king of Sweden.
• Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples after a five month siege.
• With the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, governor Devlet Haci Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.

Deaths

• July 9 - Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
• July 12 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Ashikaga shogun