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1422 (MCDXXII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1422nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 422nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 15th century, and the 3rd year of the 1420s decade.
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In 1422, the Ottoman Empire laid siege to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, as a result of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II 's attempts to interfere in the succession of Ottoman Sultans, after the death of Mehmed I in 1421.
- 10 June-September 1422
- Byzantine victory
- Constantinople(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
In 1422 Murad revoked all the privileges accorded to the Byzantines by his father and laid siege to Constantinople. His armies invaded Greece and blockaded Thessalonica. The city was then a possession of Manuel II’s son Andronicus, who in…
Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. 1422 by country (3 C, 1 P)
In 1422, Portugal became the last Western European country to switch to the system begun by Dionysius. [28] Eastern Orthodox countries only began to adopt AD instead of the Byzantine calendar in 1700 when Russia did so, with others adopting it in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Letters reveal the fortunes of the Norfolk Paston family and of their tumultuous time. Beginning in the reign of Henry V and continuing through the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, and Henry VII, the Letters are of great interest to early modern historians and literary critics.
