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Events from the 1440s in
England.
Incumbents
Events
- 1440
- 1441
- 1442
- 1443
- 1444
- 1445
- 1446
- 1447
- 1448
- 1449
- 24 March – Hundred Years' War: English capture
Fougères in Brittany.
[3]
- May – An English privateering fleet led by Robert Wennington challenges ships of the
Hanseatic League.
[5]
- July – Hundred Years' War: French invade
Normandy.
[3]
- 29 October – Hundred Years' War:
Rouen surrenders to the French.
[3]
- Earliest known grant of a
patent in England, by Henry VI to
John of Utynam for the introduction of coloured glass manufacture.
[6]
[7]
Births
- 1440
- 1442
- 1443
- 1444
- 1446
- 1449
Deaths
- 1440
- 1441
- 1443
- 1444
- 1445
- 1447
- 1449
References