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1425 is a common year starting on a Monday.

Events
27 June: The reign of Xuande, Emperor Ming of China (end of 1435).

August: Mamluk Sultan Burjite Barsbay sends in retaliation for the abuses of Cypriot privateers a wing to loot Limassol (1425-1426).

Portuguese failed on the Canary Islands in 1425, 1427 and 1434. The archipelago remains in the hands of Castillans.
Creation of Madeira vineyards by Portuguese with plants imported from Crete.

In Trebizonde, all genoese goods are looted during a revolt.

Europe

27 February: beginning of the reign of Vassili II the Blind (1415-1462) great prince of Moscow. Vitovt of Lithuania becomes his guardian and defends him against the claims of Georges de Galitch, Vassili's brother.
Moscow was torn apart by wars of succession for 25 years after the death of Vassili of Russia. .
March 7 : Arthur III of Richemont, future Duke of Brittany, becomes connetable of France alongside Charles VII of France.
June 16: the people of Saint-Malo, mounted on their boats, seized the entire English fleet and managed to unblock Mont-Saint-Michel. Briand III of Châteaubriant-Beaufort, the chamberlain of King Charles VII is one of the worthy chiefs.
21 July: John VIII Paleologist, Byzantine emperor, reigns alone at the death of his father Manuel II (end in 1448).
July: An armed band seized the cattle of Domrémy and Greux.
August 2: Le Mans goes to the English.
September 8th: John II (1398-1479), son of Ferdinand the Righteous, became king of Navarre by his marriage to Blanche of Navarre.
12 November: the pontificate of the antipap Benedict XIV begins (Bernard Garnier, end 1430).
December 9th: foundation of the University of Leuven in Brabant by Duke John IV of Brabant.

Trial in witchcraft of Véronique de Desenice, second wife of Hungarian magnate Frédéric II de Celje. She was killed by drowning in 1428.

Births in 1425

Death in 1425

Notes and references

External links

Year of the 15th century