This page relates to the year 1425 Calendrier Julien.

Events

The Atlantic

• Failure of the Portuguese to the the Canaries, of 1425 with 1434. The archipelago remains with the hands of the Castillans.
• Creation of the vineyard of Madeira by the Portuguese with imported seedlings of Crete.

The Middle East

• has Trébizonde, all the goods Génois are plundered during a revolt.
• the sultan Mamelouk Burjite sends in reprisals of the exaction of the Cypriot corsairs a squadron to plunder Limassol

Europe

• February 27th: Beginning of the reign of Vassili II the Blind man (1415-1462) large prince of Moscow. Vitovt of Lithuania becomes its tutor and defends it against the claims of Georges de Galitch, brother of Vassili Ier.
• March 7th: Arthur III of Richemont, future duke of Brittany, becomes Connétable of France at the side of Charles VII of France.
• June 16th: People of Saint-Malo, assembled on their boats, seize all the English fleet and succeed in freeing the Mount-Saint-Michel.
• June: Beginning of the reign of Jean VIII Paleologist, Byzantine Emperor (fine in 1448).
• August 2nd: Mans goes to the English.
• September 8th: Jean II (1398 - 1479), wire of Ferdinand Ier the Juste, becomes king of Navarre by its marriage.
• November 12th: Beginning of the Pontificate of the Antipape Benoit XIV (fine in 1430).

• Lawsuit in sorcery of Veronique de Desenice, wife of the Hungarian tycoon Hermann II of Celje.
• princes of Riazan, Péréïaslav-Riazanski, Pronsk, Tver and Smolensk like those of the principalities of Upstream (Novossielsk, Odoïev, Vorotynsk…) swear obedience with the large-duke of Lithuania.

Art & culture

• December 9th: Foundation of the the University of Louvain in the the Brabant by the pope Martin V.

• Creation of the school of architecture and sculpture of the Folgoët, under the protection of the duke of Brittany (fine in 1455). A blazing art is diffused in Brittany.
• the brothers Van Eyck develop the technique oil-base paint.
• With died of Jean III of Bavaria in January, Jan van Eyck enters to the service of the Duc of Burgundy. Official painter and manservant, it is in charge of several missions in England, perhaps with Prague and in Italy but certainly in Spain (1426 - 1427) and with the Portugal, (1429) from where it dispatches with the duke the portrait of the princess Isabelle, its future wife.
• the Flemish painter Hubert van Eyck paints the retable of the mystical lamb (finished by his/her brother Jan van Eyck in 1431).
• Virgin in a church of Jan Van Eyck.
• the Annunciation (v. 1425) painting of Rogier Van der Weyden.
• Triptych of Mérode of Robert Campin.
• the sculptor Florentin Donatello starts to work on its bronze of David .
• Lorenzo Ghiberti carries out the third bronze door of the baptistry of Florence (fine in 1452).
• Holy Anne Metterza common realization of Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale painted for the church of Sant' Ambrogio.
• the painter Masolino da Panicale share to work in Hungary (1425 - 1426).
• the Furnace bridge Quaratesi is carried out with Florence by Gentile da Fabriano.
• the painter Florentin Paolo Uccello goes to Venice where he works with the mosaics of the Basilique Saint-Marc (fine in 1431).

• Dunstable introduces the instrumental accompaniment into the hymn.

Science & technology

• Invention of the rifle to starter.

Economy & company

• the Tisserand S of Constance obtain the prohibition of the commercial trust of Ravensburg.

Births in 1425

Death in 1425

• February 27th: Vassili Ier of Russia
• May 24th: Murdoch Stewart, 2nd duke of Albany. (° 1362).
• July 22nd: Manual II Paleologist, Byzantine Emperor.
• September 8th: Charles III of Navarre.

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