What is 1423?
{{Year nav|1423}} {{Year in various calendars|1423}} {{Year article header|1423}} == Events == *[[April 27]] – [[Hussite Wars]]: [[Battle of Horic]] – The [[Taborites]] decisively beat the [[Utraquists]]. * [[July 31]] – [[Hundred Years' War]]: [[Battle of Cravant]] – The [[France|French]] army is defeated at [[Cravant, Yonne|Cravant]] on the banks of the river [[Yonne]]. * [[August 23]] – [[England|English]] with [[Burgundy|Burgundian]] soldiers defeat the [[France|French]], who were supported by the [[Scottish people|Scots]], at [[Verneuil]]. The English-Burgundian alliance was strengthened by the marriage of the [[Duke of Bedford]] to [[Anne of Burgundy]]. Anne was sister of [[Philip the Good]], [[Duke of Burgundy]]. Philip the Good had allied Burgundy with England after his father was murdered in [[1419]] by the French [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]], son of [[Charles VI of France]]. * According to the [[1421 theory]], the return of [[Zheng He]]'s fleets to [[China]]. == Births == *[[May 30]] – [[Georg Purbach]], German astronomer and mathematician (died [[1461]]) *[[June 2]] – [[Ferdinand I of Naples]] (died [[1494]]) *[[July 3]] – King [[Louis XI of France]] (died [[1483]]) *[[August 24]] – [[Thomas Rotherham]], English cleric (died [[1500]]) *[[November 24]] – Baron [[Raß von Balzers]], descendant of [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]] == Deaths == *[[May 23]] – [[Avignon Pope Benedict XIII]] (born [[1328]]) *[[October 20]] – [[Henry Bowet]], Archbishop of York *[[December 15]] – [[Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg]], Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights *''date unknown'' – [[Richard Whittington]], Lord Mayor of London (born [[1358]]) [[Category:1423| ]]