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Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated by the English on the banks of the river Yonne in Bu

Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated by the English on the banks of the river Yonne in Burgundy

Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated by the English on the banks of the river Yonne in Burgundy

Events Before

  1. Battle of Baugé - French defeat English

    The Battle of Baugé, fought between the English and a Franco-Scots army on 22 March 1421 at Baugé, France, east of Angers, was a major defeat for the English in the Hundred Years' War.

  2. Zen teacher Ketsugan performs exorcisms to free Aizōji Temple in Fukushima, Japan

    Zen teacher Ketsugan performs exorcisms to free Aizōji Temple in Fukushima, Japan

  3. Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons

    Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons

  4. Henry V dies

    Henry V dies

  5. Charles VI of France dies

    Charles VI of France dies

Events After

  1. Storm flood ravages Dutch coast

    Storm flood ravages Dutch coast

  2. BC Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).

    Thutmose III (variously also spelled Tuthmosis or Thothmes, Ancient Egyptian: 𓅝𓄟𓄤𓆣), sometimes called Thutmose the Great, (1479–1425 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.

  3. Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail

    Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail

  4. Pope Martin V founds the University of Leuven (Netherlands), today one of Europe's oldest universities [1]

    The Old University of Leuven is the name historians give to the university, or studium generale, founded in Leuven, Brabant (then part of the Burgundian Netherlands, now part of Belgium), in 1425.

  5. Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland

    Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland

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