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[[File:Bitva u Ústí nad Labem.jpg|250px|thumb|[[June 26]]: The Czech Hussites annihilate the German defenders of [[Aussig]].]]
{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1426''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDXXVI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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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>

===April&ndash;June===
* [[April 22]] &ndash; The [[Second Scutari War]] between the [[Republic of Venice]] and the [[Serbian Despotate]] is formally ended by the signing of a treaty at the Serbian city of [[Vushtrri]] in what is now [[Albania]].
* [[April 25]] &ndash; (17 [[Jumada al-Thani]] [[Islamic calendar|829 AH]]) [[Hasan ibn Ajlan]], who has been allowed to leave [[Cairo]] after being appointed by the Egyptian Mamluk Sultan as the [[Emir of Mecca]] and paying the first installment of a fee of 30,000 [[dinar]]s, dies on the way back to [[Mecca]]. The Sultan, [[Barsbay|Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Dīn Barsbāy]], summons Hasan's sons [[Barakat ibn Hasan]] and Ibrahim ibn Hasan to [[Cairo]] to complete payment of the remaining 25,000 dinars owed.<ref name=Ghazi>{{cite book |author-last=al-Ghāzī|author-first=‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad|editor1=‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Duhaysh |script-title=ar:إفادة الأنام |title=Ifādat al-anām |date=2009 |pages=286–288 |publisher=Maktabat al-Asadī |location=Makkah |edition=1st |language=Arabic |volume=3}}</ref> 
* [[May 16]] &ndash; In Burma, [[Kale Kye-Taung Nyo]], ruler of the [[Kingdom of Ava]], flees his capital. He is succeeded by [[Mohnyin Thado]], who receives [[Thinkhaya III of Toungoo]].
* [[June 1]] &ndash; The [[Parliament of Bats]] closes in England. Among the laws given [[royal assent]] by King Henry VI are a provision that writs and lawsuits against people who were later given knighthood "shall not abate for that cause," and another giving "licence to all the King's subjects to transport corn.<ref>"4. Hen. 6", in ''Chronological Table of the Statutes: Covering the Period from 1235 to the End of 1971'' (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972) {{ISBN|978-0-11-840096-1}}</ref>
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Hussite Wars]] &ndash; [[Battle of Aussig]]: The [[Hussites]] decisively beat the crusading armies of Germany in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade and then annihilate the town of Aussig (now [[Ústí nad Labem]]) the next day.<ref>{{cite EB1911 |mode=cs2|wstitle=Aussig|volume=2|ref={{harvid|EB|1911}}|page=936}}</ref>

===July&ndash;September===
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Mamluk campaigns against Cyprus (1424–1426)|Battle of Khirokitia]]: King [[Janus of Cyprus]] is defeated and captured by the [[Mamluks]] and brought to Egypt, where he is ransomed after ten months.
* [[August 16]] &ndash; (11 [[Shawwal]] [[Islamic calendar|829 AH]]) [[Barakat ibn Hasan]], son of the late [[Hasan ibn Ajlan]], is confirmed by the Egyptian Sultan Barsbay as the new [[Emir of Mecca]], conditioned on paying the remaining 25,000 dinars owed by Hasan.<ref name="Ibn Fahd">{{cite book|author1-last=Ibn Fahd|author1-first=‘Izz al-Dīn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Umar ibn Muḥammad|editor1-last=Shaltūt|editor1-first=Fahīm Muḥammad|script-title=ar:غاية المرام بأخبار سلطنة البلد الحرام|title=Ghāyat al-marām bi-akhbār salṭanat al-Balad al-Ḥarām|date=1988|publisher=Jāmi‘at Umm al-Qurá, Markaz al-Baḥth al-‘Ilmī wa-Iḥyā’ al-Turāth al-Islāmī, Kullīyat al-Sharīʻah wa-al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīyah|location=Makkah|volume=2|edition=1st|language=Arabic|orig-year=Composed before 1518|pages=392–400}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] &ndash; (15 [[Dhu al-Qidah]] [[Islamic calendar|829 AH]]) [[Barakat ibn Hasan]] arrives in Mecca to officially assume the powers of the [[Emir of Mecca]], after taking back over from his brother [[Abu al-Qasim ibn Hasan ibn Ajlan|Abu al-Qasim]].<ref name="Ibn Fahd"/>

===October&ndash;December===
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Uckermark War (1425–1427)]]: Representing [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]], [[Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg|the Elector Friedrich]] and his son [[John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach|Johann "the alchemist"]] sign a treaty with [[William of Werle]], ruler of one of the opposing states of Mecklenburg.<ref>Edward Rymar, ''Wojny i spory pomorsko-brandenburskie w XV-XVI w'' ("Wars and Disputes of Pomerania and Brandenburg in the 15th-16th centuries") (Zabrze, Wyd: Inforteditions, 2012</ref> Friedrich and Johann had recaptured the town of [[Prenzlau]] on August 23.
* [[November 7]] &ndash; In Vietnam's [[Lam Sơn uprising]] against Chinese rule, Vietnamese rebels led by General [[Nguyễn Xí]] defeat a much larger force of the army of Ming dynasty China at the [[Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động|Battle of Tot Dong and Chuc Dong]] near what is now [[Hanoi]], with at least 20,000 of the 54,000 Chinese troops killed.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sun |first=Laichen |chapter=Chinese Gunpowder Technology and Đại Việt, ca. 1390–1497|pages=72–120|title=Viet Nam: Borderless Histories|editor-given1= Anthony |editor-surname1=Reid|editor-given2=Nhung Tuyet |editor-surname2=Tran|location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] &ndash; A peace treaty is signed in Venice between the [[Republic of Venice]] (led by the Doge [[Francesco Foscari]]) and the [[Duchy of Milan]] (ruled by the Duke [[Filippo Maria Visconti]]), through the mediation the [[Pope Martin V|papal envoy]], Cardinal [[Niccolò Albergati]]. Milan is required to relinquish control of Brescia and Vercelli to Venice, but regains control of its former lands in Liguria.<ref>[https://www.bdl.servizirl.it/vufind/Record/BDL-OGGETTO-10505|title=Angelo Berenzi, "Storia di Pontevico"]</ref>

==Date unknown== 
* [[Castello Orsini-Odescalchi]] is built in [[Bracciano]], [[Italy]] by the [[Orsini family]].
* [[Eunuch (court official)|Eunuch]]-dominated secret police start to control the palace guards and imperial workshops, infiltrate the civil service, and head all foreign missions in [[Ming dynasty|China]].<ref>Gernet, Jacques (translated by Foster, J. R. and Hartman, Charles) (1936). ''[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1274516M/A_history_of_Chinese_civilization A History of Chinese Civilization]''. Cambridge University Press. p. 407.</ref></onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Eleanor of Navarre]], queen regnant of Navarre (d. [[1479]])
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Christian I of Denmark|Christian of Oldenburg]], King of Denmark [[1448]]&ndash;[[1481]], of Norway [[1450]]&ndash;1481 and of Sweden [[1457]]&ndash;[[1464]] (d. [[1481]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov|title=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1QNAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Macmillan|page=38}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick]] (d. [[1492]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Maria of Cleves]], French noble (d. [[1487]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Johann IV Roth]], Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[1506]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[John II, Duke of Bourbon]] (d. [[1488]])

== Deaths ==
* [[March]] / [[May]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hoccleve]], English poet (b. c. [[1368]])
* c. late May &ndash; [[Kale Kye-Taung Nyo]], deposed King of Ava (b. c. [[1385]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Hubert van Eyck]], painter<ref>{{cite book|author=Hubert van Eyck|title=Hubert and Jan Van Eyck|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LJFAQAAMAAJ|year=1904|publisher=Bates and Guild Company|page=24}}</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter]], English Plantagent noblewoman, daughter of John of Gaunt (b. c. [[1363]])
* [[December]] &ndash; [[Pippo Spano]], Hungarian military leader (b. [[1369]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter]], English nobleman and military leader (b. c. [[1377]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Tezozomoc (Azcapotzalco)|Tezozomoc]], Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco and military leader

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