1423

Decades: 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s - 1420s - 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s

Years: 1418 1419 1420 1421 1422 - 1423 - 1424 1425 1426 1427 1428

Events

• July 31 - Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
• August 23 - English with Burgundian soldiers defeat the French, who were supported by the 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 Burgandy. Philip the Good had allied Burgundy with England after his father was murdered in 1419 by the French Dauphin, son of Charles VI of France.
• According to the 1421 theory, the return of Zheng He's fleets to China.

Births

• July 3 - King Louis XI of France

Deaths

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