Editing 1442 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 25]] &ndash; 
**The English Parliament opens at [[Westminster]] for a 60-day session, and the House of Commons re-elects [[William Tresham]] as its speaker. 
**The [[Treaty of Nürtingen]] is signed between the two counts of [[County of Württemberg|Württemberg]], the brothers [[Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach|Ludwig]] and [[Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg|Ulrich]], dividing the German that divided the territory between them.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ludwig I von Württemberg |url=https://www.schloss-urach.de/en/interesting-amusing/figures/ludwig-i-von-wuerttemberg |access-date=19 October 2023 |website=schloss-urach.de |publisher=Urach Residential Palace}}</ref> 
**[[John Fortescue (judge)|John Fortescue]] becomes the new [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales]], replacing the late [[John Hody]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|author = E. W. Ives|url = https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9944|date = 22 September 2005| doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9944 |access-date = 23 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; Two months after the death of the Burmese King [[Minye Kyawswa I of Ava]], his brother-in-law [[Thihapate of Mohnyin]] turns down an offer to rule the kingdom, and recommends that Kyswswa's younger brother, [[Narapati I of Ava|Thihathu]], Viceroy of Prome, become the new King.<ref>{{cite book|last=Aung-Thwin|first=Michael A.|author-link=Michael Aung-Thwin|title=Myanmar in the Fifteenth Century|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|year=2017|location=Honolulu|pages=89–90|isbn=978-0-8248-6783-6}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; As part of his campaign to reunite the Christian churches of the world, [[Pope Eugene IV]] promulgates the [[Bull of Union with the Copts]] (officially, ''Cantate Domino''), an attempted union with the [[Coptic Orthodox Church]] of Egypt.<ref>{{cite book |last = Eugenius IV |first = Pope |author-link = Pope Eugene IV |editor = Norman P. Tanner |title = Decrees of the ecumenical councils |orig-year = 1442 |access-date = 2008-04-10 |series = 2 volumes |year = 1990 |publisher = [[Georgetown University Press]] |location = [[Washington, DC]] |isbn = 0-87840-490-2 |language =el, la |chapter = Ecumenical Council of Florence (1438-1445): Session 11—4 February 1442; Bull of union with the Copts |chapter-url = http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/FLORENCE.HTM#5 |lccn = 90003209 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190709005029/http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/FLORENCE.HTM#5 |archive-date = 2019-07-09}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Battle of Hermannstadt]]: After seven days of fighting that began on March 18, [[John Hunyadi]] defeats an army of the [[Ottoman Empire]] (80,000 strong), led by [[Mezid|Mezid Bey]] of [[Vidin]], near [[Sibiu]] in what is now [[Romania]].<ref>''A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East'', Vol. I, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), p.337</ref>
* [[March 27]] &ndash; The English Parliament adjourns and King Henry VI gives [[royal assent]] to numerous adts passed, including the [[Treason Act 1442]] (making the act of restraining English citizens or possessions within Wales an act punishable as treason) and the [[Peeresses Act 1441]] (requiring that wives of nobles shall be put on trial in the same way as the peers of the realm)<ref>''Statutes at Large,'' vol. I, Danby Pickering, Cambridge University Press (1765).</ref>