1441

1441 (MCDXLI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1441st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 441st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 15th century, and the 2nd year of the 1440s decade. As of the start of 1441, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1441 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1441 MCDXLI
Ab urbe condita	2194
Armenian calendar	890 ԹՎ ՊՂ
Assyrian calendar	6191
Balinese saka calendar	1362–1363
Bengali calendar	848
Berber calendar	2391
English Regnal year	19 Hen. 6 – 20 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1985
Burmese calendar	803
Byzantine calendar	6949–6950
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4137 or 4077     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4138 or 4078
Coptic calendar	1157–1158
Discordian calendar	2607
Ethiopian calendar	1433–1434
Hebrew calendar	5201–5202
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1497–1498
- Shaka Samvat	1362–1363
- Kali Yuga	4541–4542
Holocene calendar	11441
Igbo calendar	441–442
Iranian calendar	819–820
Islamic calendar	844–845
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 13 / Kakitsu 1 (嘉吉元年)
Javanese calendar	1356–1357
Julian calendar	1441 MCDXLI
Korean calendar	3774
Minguo calendar	471 before ROC 民前471年
Nanakshahi calendar	−27
Thai solar calendar	1983–1984
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 1567 or 1186 or 414     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 1568 or 1187 or 415

Events

• King's College, University of Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI.
• Ouagadougou becomes the capital of the Mossi Empire.
• Two Ethiopians attend an ecclesiastical council at Florence, as part of the negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic and Roman Catholic Christianity. This is the earliest recorded contact of the Ethiopian Church with Europe.
• Revolt in Yucatán capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states.
• Christopher of Bavaria succeeds Karl Knutsson Borde as king of Sweden.
• Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples after a five-month siege.
• With the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, governor Haci Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.
• The Republic of Venice annexes the seigniory of Ravenna, ending the Da Polenta dynasty.

Births

• February 9 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, politician and poet (died 1501)

Deaths

• January 14 – Corrado IV Trinci, former lord of Foligno
• July 9 – Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
• July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (born 1394)