1422
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Year 1422 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1422

• January 10 - Hussite Wars - Battle of Nemecky Brod: The Hussites defeat 2,000 Royalist Crusaders.
• March 21 - The Siege of Meaux begins.
• August 31 - Henry VI becomes King of England.
• October 21 - With the death of King Charles VI of France, Henry VI of England is proclaimed King of France in Paris, while the Dauphin, Charles, is proclaimed King Charles VII of France in Bourges.
• Venice population - 84,000; 200 men of them rule.
• Florence population - 40,000; 600 men of them rule.
• Ottoman forces overrun the last domains of Constantine II of Bulgaria, who dies in exile at the Serbian court; end of the Bulgarian Empire.

Births

• November 27 - Gaston IV of Foix (d. 1472)
• date unknown - Babur Ibn-Baysunkur, Timurid ruler in Khurasan (d. 1457)
• probable - William Caxton, English printer (d. c. 1491)

Deaths

• March 9 - Jan Želivský, Hussite priest (executed) (b. 1380)
• July 8 - Michele of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France (b. 1395)
• August 31 - King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
• September 17 - Emperor Constantine II of Bulgaria (b. after 1370)
• October 21 - King Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
• probable - Thomas Walsingham, English chronicler