1430
Year 1430 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–December
- January 7 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, marries Isabella of Portugal.
- January 10 - Philip the Good founds the Order of the Golden Fleece.
- March 29 - The Ottoman Empire, under Murad II, captures Thessalonica after an eight-year siege.
- May 14 - The French first attempt to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.
- May 23 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
- June 14 - William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.
- July 11 - The Battle of Trnava: The Hussites defeat the Hungarian-Moravian-Serbian army.
- October 27 - Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin, as ruler of Lithuania.
Date unknown
- Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress, under Sigismund of Luxemburg.
- Optical methods are first used in the creation of art.
- With the surrender of Chalandritsa, and the citadel of Patras, to the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, the Principality of Achaea comes to an end.
Births
- March 10 - Oliviero Carafa, Italian Catholic cardinal
- March 23 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England
- June 13 - Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, Portuguese infante
- June 27 - Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses
- October 16
- * King James II of Scotland
- * Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay
- October 28 - Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, son of Reginald West
- November 11 - Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau, Grand Prior of the Order of St. John
- date unknown - Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord
- * Barbara von Ottenheim, German alleged witch and sculpture model
- * Isabel Bras Williamson, Scottish merchant
- * Joana de Castre, Catalan noble
- probable - Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor
Deaths
- January 5 - Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- January 29 or 1427 - Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer
- August 4 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant
- August 18 - Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician
- October 27 - Vytautas, Grand Prince of Lithuania
- date unknown
- * Thomas FitzAlan, English nobleman
- * Christine de Pizan, Italian proto-feminist writer
