1427 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Lincoln College in Oxford is founded.
• Balsics rule of Montenegro comes to an end.
• Bhaktapur Royal Palace in Nepal is built by King Yaksa Malla.
• Gabriel V elected Patriarch of the Coptic Church for the second time.
• Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava (ancient Burma).
• Conflict of Druimnacour in Sutherland, Scotland.
• First witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
• Celestine Order established in France.
• Celebration of Sant Jordi (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he would later become its patron saint).
• Bremen expelled from the Hanseatic League.

Births

• Djuradj Brankovic (leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church).
• October 26 - Sigismund of Austria - Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria

Deaths

• Sigismund Albicus (Archbishop of Prague)