1440

1440 (MCDXL) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1440th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 440th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1440s decade. As of the start of 1440, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1440 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1440 MCDXL
Ab urbe condita	2193
Armenian calendar	889 ԹՎ ՊՁԹ
Assyrian calendar	6190
Balinese saka calendar	1361–1362
Bengali calendar	847
Berber calendar	2390
English Regnal year	18 Hen. 6 – 19 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1984
Burmese calendar	802
Byzantine calendar	6948–6949
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 4136 or 4076     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4137 or 4077
Coptic calendar	1156–1157
Discordian calendar	2606
Ethiopian calendar	1432–1433
Hebrew calendar	5200–5201
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1496–1497
- Shaka Samvat	1361–1362
- Kali Yuga	4540–4541
Holocene calendar	11440
Igbo calendar	440–441
Iranian calendar	818–819
Islamic calendar	843–844
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 12 (永享１２年)
Javanese calendar	1355–1356
Julian calendar	1440 MCDXL
Korean calendar	3773
Minguo calendar	472 before ROC 民前472年
Nanakshahi calendar	−28
Thai solar calendar	1982–1983
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 1566 or 1185 or 413     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 1567 or 1186 or 414

Events

• February 21 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
• September – Gilles de Rais, an early known serial killer, is arrested and taking into custody on orders from the Bishop of Nantes.

Births

• January 22 – Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
• February 10 – Henry of York, elder brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (died 1441)
• February 22 – King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (died 1457)
• Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (died 1531)
• Kabir, Indian mystic (died 1518)
• Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (died 1479)

Deaths

• September 30 – Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn (born c.1362)
• October 26 – Gilles de Rais, Marshal of France (born 1405)