1440s
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[edit] Events
- The Coptic Church of Ethiopia contacts the Roman Catholic Church for the first time.
- The empire of the Maya breaks up into many little kingdoms.
- The Ottoman Empire starts to become weak.
- The Korean alphabet, the Hangul, is invented.
[edit] Births
- King Ivan III of Russia
- King Edward IV of England
- Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England
- Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter
- Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia, king in the Solomonid dynasty.
[edit] Deaths
- Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
- Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden