1440
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events
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politics and world happening
- Johannes good mountain invents the mobile type character for the printing
- outbreak of conflicts in the old person Zurich war (until 1446)
- Friedrich II., the iron one, becomes cure prince of Brandenburg
culture
- around 1440: Palazzo Pitti is born
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- 22. January: Iwan III., from 1462 to 1503) ruler of Russia († 1505)
- 13. February: Hartmann Schedel, German historian († 1514)
- 22. February: Ladislaus Postumus, duke of Austria, king of Böhmen and as Ladislaus V. King of Hungary († 1457)
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died
- 20. September: Friedrich I., Castle count von Nürnberg, Kurfürst of Brandenburg (* 1371)
- 23. September: Lorenzo di Giovanni de Medici, Sohn Giovanni di Bicci de Medici and the brother of Cosimo de Medici (* 1395)
- 26. October: Gilles de Rais, French army leader and marshal of France (* 1404)
