December - King Henry having regained his sanity, the Duke of York is dismissed as Protector.
The press of Johannes Gutenberg (at Mainz on the Rhine) produces the first printed documents bearing a date.
Isaac Sarfati sends a circular letter to Rhineland, Swabia, Moravia and Hungary, praising the happy conditions of the Jews under the crescent in contrast to the "great torture chamber" under the cross and urging them to come to Turkey.