1424

1424 (MCDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1424th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 424th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1420s decade. As of the start of 1424, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1390s  1400s  1410s  – 1420s –  1430s  1440s  1450s
Years:	1421 1422 1423 – 1424 – 1425 1426 1427

1424 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1424 MCDXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2177
Armenian calendar	873 ԹՎ ՊՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	6174
Balinese saka calendar	1345–1346
Bengali calendar	831
Berber calendar	2374
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 6 – 3 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1968
Burmese calendar	786
Byzantine calendar	6932–6933
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4120 or 4060     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4121 or 4061
Coptic calendar	1140–1141
Discordian calendar	2590
Ethiopian calendar	1416–1417
Hebrew calendar	5184–5185
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1480–1481
- Shaka Samvat	1345–1346
- Kali Yuga	4524–4525
Holocene calendar	11424
Igbo calendar	424–425
Iranian calendar	802–803
Islamic calendar	827–828
Japanese calendar	Ōei 31 (応永３１年)
Javanese calendar	1338–1339
Julian calendar	1424 MCDXXIV
Korean calendar	3757
Minguo calendar	488 before ROC 民前488年
Nanakshahi calendar	−44
Thai solar calendar	1966–1967
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1550 or 1169 or 397     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 1551 or 1170 or 398

Events of 1424

• August 17 – Battle of Verneuil – An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under the Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas. Alençon was captured and Douglas killed.
• June – Battle of L'Aquila – Jacopo Caldora and Micheletto Attendolo for the Kingdom of Naples defeat Braccio da Montone for Alfonso V of Aragon.

1424 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1424 MCDXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2177
Armenian calendar	873 ԹՎ ՊՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	6174
Balinese saka calendar	1345–1346
Bengali calendar	831
Berber calendar	2374
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 6 – 3 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1968
Burmese calendar	786
Byzantine calendar	6932–6933
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4120 or 4060     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4121 or 4061
Coptic calendar	1140–1141
Discordian calendar	2590
Ethiopian calendar	1416–1417
Hebrew calendar	5184–5185
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1480–1481
- Shaka Samvat	1345–1346
- Kali Yuga	4524–4525
Holocene calendar	11424
Igbo calendar	424–425
Iranian calendar	802–803
Islamic calendar	827–828
Japanese calendar	Ōei 31 (応永３１年)
Javanese calendar	1338–1339
Julian calendar	1424 MCDXXIV
Korean calendar	3757
Minguo calendar	488 before ROC 民前488年
Nanakshahi calendar	−44
Thai solar calendar	1966–1967
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1550 or 1169 or 397     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 1551 or 1170 or 398

Births

• October 31 – King Wladislaus III of Poland (died 1444)
• date unknown
  • Demetrius Chalcondyles, Greek scholar (died 1511)
  • Abu Sa'id, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (died 1469)

Deaths

• January 4 – Muzio Sforza, Italian condottiero
• May 10 – Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan
• June 5 – Braccio da Montone, Italian condottiero
• June 10 – Duke Ernest of Austria (born 1377)
• June 16 – Johannes Ambundii, Archbishop of Riga
• August 12 – Yongle Emperor of China (born 1360)
• December 31 – Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader
• date unknown
  • Parameswara, Malay prince (born 1344)
  • Jan Žižka, Czech general and Hussite leader
• probable – Johannes Abezier, provost and bishop of the Teutonic Knights (born 1380)