1427. The Hussites extend their conquests in Saxony and Meissen; they gain a victory at Mies.
1428. Orleans, France, besieged by the English.
Death of John de' Medici, founder of the illustrious family at Florence.
1429. Coronation of Charles VII of France at Rheims.
Jeanne d'Arc relieves Orleans. See "Jeanne d'Arc's Victory at Orleans," vii, [333.]
Refusal of the Hussites to treat for peace with Emperor Sigismund.
Antipope Clement VIII abdicates and ends the Great Schism.
1430. Institution of the Golden Fleece by Philip, Duke of Burgundy, on his marriage with Isabella, daughter of King John of Portugal, and in commemoration of the manufacturing prosperity of the Netherlands.
1431. Jeanne d'Arc dishonorably and inhumanly burned at Rouen. See "Trial and Execution of Jeanne d'Arc," vii, [350.]