1429

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File:Lenepveu, Jeanne d'Arc au siège d'Orléans.jpg: Joan of Arc enters Orléans to relieve the ongoing siege.]]

File:MakevichusVytautLutsk.jpg: Multinational European summit is hosted by Grand Duke Vyautas of Lithuania.]]

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Year 1429 (MCDXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= January–March =

= April–June =

  • April 18 – (1st waning of Kason 791 ME) In what is now Myanmar, Min Saw Mun is restored as King of Arakan at the capital, Launggyet, with the help of troops from the Bengal Sultanate and from Afghan mercenaries. He then moves the capital to the city of Mrauk U.{{cite book |last=Myint-U |author-link=Thant Myint-U |first=Thant |title=The River of Lost Footsteps—Histories of Burma |year=2006 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |page=73 |isbn=978-0-374-16342-6}}
  • April 29Siege of Orléans: Joan of Arc enters Orléans with a relief expedition.{{cite book |author=Thomas Tegg |title=Tegg's Dictionary of Chronology; Or, Historical and Statistical Register: From the Birth of Christ to the Present Time |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1i8OAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA471|year=1854|publisher=D. Appleton and Company|pages=471}}
  • May 7 – The Tourelles, the last English siege fortification at Orléans, falls. Joan of Arc becomes the hero of the battle by returning, wounded, to lead the final charge.
  • May 8 – The English, weakened by disease and lack of supplies, depart Orléans.
  • June 18Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.

File:Beside the altar stood Joan, her whit standard in her hand.jpg: The coronation of King Charles VII takes place at Rheims.]]

= July–September =

  • July 17 – The Dauphin is crowned as King Charles VII of France is crowned in Rheims.{{cite book|title=Military Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWm_n2eKyRsC&pg=PA6|year=1958|pages=6}}
  • August 28Mehmed Nizamüddin is appointed the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by the Sultan Murad II.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı (Ottoman State Officials), (Istanbul: Türkiye Yayınevi, 1971) p.9
  • September 8Joan of Arc leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris, and is wounded.
  • September 18 – 18 (Dhu al-Hijjah 832 AH) The Hafsid Sultanate Saracens, ruled by the Hafsid Caliph Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II and commanded by Kaid Ridavan, depart from Tunis with 70 ships and 18,000 troops in an attempt to capture Malta, but are repelled by its defenders.{{cite book |last1=Cassar |first1=Frans X. |last2=Mercieca |first2=Simon |editor1-last=Camilleri |editor1-first=M. |title=Besieged : Malta 1565 volume II |date=2015 |publisher=Malta Libraries and Heritage Malta Publication |location=Valletta |url=https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/25271/1/An_Unpublished_Account_of_the_Siege_of_M.pdf |archive-date=14 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240914114131/https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/25271/1/An_Unpublished_Account_of_the_Siege_of_M.pdf |chapter=An unpublished account of the siege of Mdina (Malta) in 1429 by the contemporary Arab chronicler Al Maqrizi and its relevance for a better understanding of the narrative of the Ottoman siege in 1565}}
  • September 22 – The English Parliament assembles at Westminster after being summoned by King Henry VI, and the House of Commons elects William Alington as Speaker of the House.

= October–December =

= Date unknown =

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