Siege of Orleans turns tide 100 Years War
Events
- Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl, directly influenced the result of the Hundred Years’ War.
- 1420: Construction of the Chinese Forbidden City is completed in Beijing.
- Henry V of England commences construction of the ship Grace Dieu.
- The first band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizens of Paris.
- The first witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
- 1429: Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans and turns the tide of the Hundred Years’ War.
- 1429: Queen Suhita succeeds her father Wikramawardhana as ruler of Majapahit.
Art
- 1420s: First use of graphical perspective in painting.
- February 19, 1426: Masaccio is commissioned to paint a major altarpiece, the Pisa Polyptych altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa.
- c. 1426 – Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in Her Black Pavilion, a copy of the 12th century “Haft Paykar” (Seven Beauties) of Nizami Ganjavi, Herat, Afghanistan, is made. Timurid dynasty period. It is now kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- Devonshire Hunting Tapestries woven.
