Editing 1436 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 5]] &ndash; The [[Hussite Wars]] effectively end in [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]]. [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Sigismund]] is accepted as King.
* [[July 29]] &ndash; French forces abandon their [[Siege of Calais (1436)|Siege of Calais]].
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Filippo Brunelleschi|Brunelleschi]]'s Dome at [[Florence Cathedral]] is dedicated.<ref name=King>{{cite book|first=Ross|last=King|title=Brunelleschi's Dome|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=2000|isbn=0-7011-6903-6}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] &ndash; An [[Seventh siege of Gibraltar|attempt by Spain]] to recapture [[Gibraltar]] from the [[Moors]] fails as the expedition leader [[Enrique Pérez de Guzmán, 2nd Count of Niebla|Enrique Pérez de Guzmán]] drowns along with 40 of his men after reaching the shore.<ref>Joseph F. O'Callaghan, ''The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) p.80 ("He stormed the beach at low tide on 31 August 1436, but as the tide came in he withdrew to his ships and died trying to save some of his men from drowning.")</ref><ref>"Gibraltar Under Moor, Spaniard, and Briton", by Col. E. R. Kenyon, in ''The Royal Engineers Journal'' (September 1910) pp.166-167 ("The Count is drowned; and Don Juan withdraws August 31st.")</ref>
* [[September 1]] &ndash; Eric of Pomerania is once again reinstated as king of Sweden. Karl Knutsson, at the same time, resigns the post of rikshövitsman.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; At the [[Battle of Piperdean]], fought near the border between Scotland and England, a force of 4,000 English troops led by the [[George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March|George de Dunbar]] and the [[Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland|Earl of Northumberland]] to take back [[Dunbar Castle]] is repelled by the [[William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus|Earl of Angus]], who as [[Lord Warden of the Marches|Warden of the Scottish Marches]]. The Scots surprise the marching English troops and kill an estimated 1,500 men, including 40 knights, while losing 200 men of their own.<ref>George Ridpath, ''The Border History of England and Scotland'' (Edinburgh: Berwick 1776) p.401</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Pope Eugene IV]] issues a supplement to his [[papal bull]] of 1435, ''[[Sicut dudum]]'' (which banned enslavement by Portugal of the people of the Canary Islands), by another bull, ''Romanus Pontifex'', allowing Portugal to conquer any of the Islands that had not yet been converted to Christianity.<ref>Richard Raiswell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ATq5_6h2AT0C&pg=PA260 "Eugene IV, Papal bulls of"]. In Junius P. Rodriguez (ed.). ''The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery''. ABC-CLIO, 1997. {{ISBN|9780874368857}}</ref>