1435

January–December

• January 11 - Sweden's first Riksdag of the Estates is summoned under rebel leader Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, who is elected rikshövitsman, in the absence of a king, on January 13.
• January 13 - Sicut Dudum, a papal bull forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
• February 2 - The Kingdom of Naples passes to René of Anjou.
• By August - Battle of Podraga: Brothers Iliaș and Stephen II battle to a draw for the throne of Moldavia, leading to a joint rule by them, helped by the intervention of the Polish king.
• August 5 - Battle of Ponza: Alfonso V of Aragon is captured.
• September 1 - Battle of Pabaiskas: Sigismund Kęstutaitis decisively defeats Grand Duke Švitrigaila, in the decisive battle of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
• September 21 - The Treaty of Arras between Charles VII of France and Philip III of Burgundy ends the English-Burgundian alliance.
• October 14 - Eric of Pomerania is reinstated as king of Sweden, only briefly, however, since he is once again deposed in January of the following year.

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• Francis of Paola founds the Order of the Minims in Italy.
• China returns to a policy of isolation.
• Gil Eanes and Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia explore the coast of Africa, as far as the Angra dos Ruivos.