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1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War.

1449 - Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra.
He will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.

1448 - Death of Saint Kabir. He contributed widely to the Bhakti movement in India. Contributions included several compositions, and his concept of love as a path of suffering.

1447 - Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated.

1446 - The Hangul Alphabet is published in Korea. It was created because Chinese script wasn't working for the Koreans; the Hangul Alphabet was the first alphabet to encode the mechanics of vocal sound production into its characters. For example, there was one visual element for “teeth together”, one for “tongue on the roof of the mouth”, and one for “tongue against the front teeth”.

1445 - A year so boring it doesn't show up on BrainyHistory! Wikipedia, at least, lists two battles (the Battle of Mokra and the Battle of Gomit, both of which sound like Legion planets), the discovery of Senegal and Cape Verde by Dinas Diaz, and a few birth and death dates.

1444 - The first year to include all the letters commonly used in Roman numerals--and each one only once: MCDXLIV.

1444 - Vlad II Dracul begins his second term as ruler of Wallachia, succeeding Basarab II.

Two years to keep us on track:

1443 - Birth of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.

1442 - Birth of Edward IV

I use Brainy history too, to identify events, but then I always end up doing further research to find out WHY the event was significant.

Brainy history also occasionally has errors, such as with the entry below - it says Eton College was founded in 1441, but other sources say Eton was founded in 1440.

1441 - King's College, Cambridge, founded by Henry VI. "King Henry founded the College to advance education, religion, learning, and what we now in a later age call research." It was meant as a sister college to Eton, but lack of funds stalled its development until 1508, when King Henry VII began to take an interest.

We must have posted at exactly the same time!

1440 - Sir Richard Molyneux is appointed constable of Liverpool Castle.

1439 - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)

1438 - The Incas established an imperial state in the Andes (Peru) and Cusco was rebuilt. They went on to build over 25,000 miles of roads.

1437 - Edinburgh is made the capital of Scotland.

1436 - Beginning of the Luchuan–Pingmian Campaigns, undertaken by China's Ming Dynasty against Tai chieftains on their border near present day Burma.

The four campaigns were disastrous: the Chinese forces were ill-supplied, and the Tai had a huge home-court advantage. The economies of several areas in southwestern China were disrupted, and many tribal allies of the Ming Dynasty were disgusted at how wasteful and inept the Ming army was. In the years to come, several tribal uprisings would occur.

The Ming would favor diplomacy over warfare in the years to come.

1435 - The Kingdom of Naples passes to Aragon.

1434 - a great frost hits London, causing the Thames River to freeze. Supplies were brought into the city via ice travel.

1433 - Much of the English town of Alnwick in Northumbria is burnt by a Scottish raiding party.

1432 - King Ponhea Yat of the Khmer Empire moves the capital from Angkor to Phnom Penh, after a seven-month Thai siege on Angkor. The capital would move a couple more times after that, before finally settling in Phnom Penh again in 1866.

1431 - Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.

1430 - Portugal colonizes the Azores

1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

1428 - Treaty of Delft signed between Jacqueline of Bavaria and Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Jacqueline loses nearly all her power, but retains her title. Philip becomes heir and administrator.

1427 - The first witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.

1426 - Christian of Oldenburg, who at one point or other reigned as King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, was born.