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1434
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Year 1434 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
For the controversial book by Gavin Menzies , see: 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance .
Events of 1434
April 14 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes , France is laid.
May 30 - Hussite Wars - Battle of Lipany : The Catholics and Ultraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.
Jan van Eyck paints The Wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami .
Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara . In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia .
In Ming Dynasty China , a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine cripple agriculture and commerce in areas throughout China, a bad spell that will last until 1448 .
Cosimo de' Medici returns to Florence one year, to the day, following his exile the previous September by the Alberti and Strozzi faction.
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