title: 1427
text: # 1427
  
  Year 1427 (MCDXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January–December
  
  * January – Spring – Radu II of Wallachia resumes the throne for the fourth time, but a seven-year struggle for it ends when he is defeated in battle, and probably killed, by Dan II, who resumes the throne for a fifth term.
  * April – The House of Balsic's rule of Montenegro comes to an end with the death of Balša III.
  * August 4 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Tachov: The Hussites decisively beat the crusader armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
  * August 17 – The first band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizens of Paris.
  * October 13 – Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, is founded by the Bishop of Lincoln.
  
  ### Date unknown
  
  * Gabriel V is elected Patriarch of the Coptic Church for the second time.
  * Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava (ancient Burma).
  * The Conflict of Druimnacour occurs in Sutherland, Scotland.
  * The first witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
  * The Celestine Order is established in France.
  * The Celebration of Sant Jordi (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he will later become its patron saint).
  * Bremen is expelled from the Hanseatic League.
  * Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.
  * Battle of the Echinades: A Byzantine fleet defeats the fleet of Carlo I Tocco.
  * Itzcoatl becomes the 4th Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, after his nephew Chimalpopoca is killed by the Maxtla, at Azcapotzalco.
  * Bhaktapur Royal Palace (in Nepal) is built by King Yaksa Malla.
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 27 – Ruprecht, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1480)
  * May 8 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1470)
  * May 29 – Françoise d'Amboise, duchess consort of Brittany, co-founder of the first monastery of the Carmelites in France (d. 1485)
  * June 22 – Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Italian writer, adviser and spouse of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (d. 1482)
  * September 9 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
  * October 26 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
  * November 24 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1473)
  * November 29 – Zhengtong Emperor of China (d. 1464)
  * November 30 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
  * date unknown – Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (d. 1509)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * April 17 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
  * May 7 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
  * May 28 – Henry IV, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (b. 1397)
  * July 19 – Stefan Lazarević, Despot of Serbia (b. 1377)
  * date unknown
     * Chimalpopoca, Aztec Tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlán (b. 1397)
     * Qu You, Chinese novelist (b. 1341)
  * probable
     * Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (b. 1350)
     * Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter
     * Radu II Prasnaglava, ruler of Wallachia, probably killed in or after a lost battle
  