Editing 1436 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Eric of Pomerania]] is deposed from the Swedish throne for the second time, only three months after having been reinstated. [[Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson]] remains the leader of the land, in his capacity of ''rikshövitsman'', the military commander of the realm.
* [[February 14]] &ndash; In [[Yemen]], the Imam [[Al-Mansur Ali bin Salah ad-Din]] of the Zaidi state, becomes of one of the victims of a plague sweeping the kingdom. His son, an-Nasir Muhammad, becomes the new Imam but dies four weeks later.<ref>Alī ibn al-Ḥasan Khazrajī, ''The Pearl-Strings; A History of the Resuliyy Dynasty'' (translated by James W. Redhouse), Vol. II. (Leiden: Kessinger Publishing, 1908), pp. 258-259.</ref>
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Charles VIII of Sweden|Karl Knutsson Bonde]] becomes the [[:sv:Rikshövitsman|Rikshövitsman]] of the Swedish military jointly with Engelbrekt. The two will share the title until Engelbrekt's death two months later.
* [[March 21]] &ndash; Italian archaeologist [[Cyriacus of Ancona|Ciriaco Pizzecolli]], exploring at the Greek village of [[Kastri, Phocis|Kastri]]) [[Excavations at Delphi#The rediscovery of Delphi|rediscovers the site of Delphi]], eight centuries after it had been abandoned.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U26YDwAAQBAJ |title=Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World |date=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=249 |isbn=978-0-691-16984-2}}</ref> More than four more centuries will pass before the ruins of the [[Temple of Apollo (Delphi)|Temple of Apollo]], the workplace of the [[Pythia|Oracle of Delphi]], will be found.<ref>{{Cite book 
|last=Gagarin |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNV6-HsUppsC |title=The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7 |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-517072-6 |page=386}}</ref> 
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Pope Eugene IV]] consecrates the [[Florence Cathedral|Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore]] on the first day of the year 1436 on the calendar used at the time in Florence and other locations, including Britain. Construction of the cathedral had started 140 years earlier in [[1296]] and was nearly complete with the finishing of a dome that had been engineered by [[Filippo Brunelleschi]]. the dome itself would be dedicated five months later.<ref name=King/>
* [[March 28]] &ndash; In Italy, the [[Republic of Genoa]] is revived after having been under the control of the [[Duchy of Milan]] for almost 15 years, and the 56-year-old mercenary leader [[Isnardo Guarco]] is elected as the [[Doge of Genoa]], with a lifetime appointment. Guarco is deposed only one week later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GUARCO, Isnardo in "Dizionario Biografico" |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/isnardo-guarco_(Dizionario-Biografico) |access-date=2020-07-26 |website=www.treccani.it |language=it-IT}}</ref>