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Year 1430 was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .

EVENTS OF 1430

May 14 - First French attempts to relieve the Siege Of Compiègne .

May 23 - Joan Of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne .

June 14 - William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.

The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians .

Order Of The Golden Fleece is founded by Philip III, Duke Of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage.

Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund Of Luxemburg .

Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin as ruler of Lithuania .

First use of optical methods in the creation of Art.

Janissaries are created.

BIRTHS

October 16 - King James II Of Scotland (died 1460 )

October 28 - Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr , English politician (died 1475 )

''date unknown'' - Hosokawa Katsumoto , Japanese warlord

''probable'' - Heinrich Kramer , German churchman and inquisitor (died 1505 )

DEATHS

January 29 ? - Andrei Rublev , Russian iconographer (born 1360 )

August 14 - Philip I, Duke Of Brabant (b. 1404 )

August 18 - Thomas De Ros, 9th Baron De Ros , English soldier and politician (b. 1406 )

October 27 - Vytautas The Great , Grand Prince of Lithuania (born 1352 )

''date unknown''

--- Thomas FitzAlan , English nobleman

--- Christine De Pizan , proto-feminist writer

SEE ALSO

List Of State Leaders In 1430