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

[edit] Deaths

  • Itzcóatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
  • Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
  • Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden