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===January&ndash;March===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; King Henry VI summons the Parliament of England, directing its members to meet at [[Leicester]] on February 18. 
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Hook and Cod wars]]: The [[Battle of Brouwershaven]] is fought in the Netherlands between the [[Burgundian State]], led by Duke [[Philip the Good]], and the troops led by [[Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut]], with the Burugundians winning.<ref>{{cite book |title=Philip the Good |last=Vaughan |first=Richard |year=2002 |orig-date=1970|publisher=Boydell Press|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk |page=43|isbn= 0-85115-917-6}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] &ndash; England, led by [[Henry VI of England|King Henry VI]], declares war against the Duchy of Brittany and the Kingdom of France after [[John V, Duke of Brittany|Jean le Sage, Duke of Brittany]] allies with France's [[Charles VI of France|King Charles VI]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Wagner |date=2006 |first=John A. |title=Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War |url= http://dl.lilibook.ir/2016/03/Encyclopedia-of-the-Hundred-Years-War.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180716235643/http://dl.lilibook.ir/2016/03/Encyclopedia-of-the-Hundred-Years-War.pdf |archive-date= 2018-07-16 |publisher=Greenwood Press |place=[[Westport, Connecticut|Westport]] |page=83| isbn=978-0-313-32736-0 }}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; The [[Xuande Emperor|Xuande Era]] begins in Ming dynasty China as the first Lunar New Year of the reign of the Emperor Xuanzong.
* [[February 18]] &ndash; The English Parliament, nicknamed the [[Parliament of Bats]] because the members are not allowed to carry swords and arm themselves with [[club (weapon)|clubs]] to defend themselves, is opened by King Henry VI at [[Leicester]]. The House of Commons elects [[Richard Vernon (speaker)|Richard Vernon]] as its speaker.
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Hundred Years' War]]: The [[Battle of St. James|Siege of St. James]] begins in [[Normandy]] in [[France]] as Sir [[Thomas Rempston (died 1458)|Thomas Rempston]] of England leads 600 knights against a force of 16,000 French and Brittanian troops following the choice of the Duke of Brittany to ally with the Kingdom of France.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burne |first=Alfred |author-link=Alfred Burne |date=2014 |title=The Agincourt War: A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1369 to 1453 |publisher=Frontline Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-84832-765-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vnapBQAAQBAJ |page=220}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Battle of St. James]] (near [[Avranches]]):  An English army under [[John, Duke of Bedford]], defeats the French under [[Arthur de Richemont]], forcing the Duke of [[Brittany]] to recognize English suzerainty.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard Ernest Dupuy|author2=Trevor Nevitt Dupuy|title=The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fikOAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-270056-8|page=451}}</ref>