In his Della Pictura of 1436, Leon Battista Alberti had argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer.

In his Della Pictura of 1436 Alberti had argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer.

The extinction of the main line of the counts of Toggenburg ( 1436 ) led to the Old Zürich War ( 1440 – 46 ) ultimately resulting in the temporary expulsion of Zürich from the Swiss confederacy.

American historian Richard Landes, who specializes in the history of apocalypticism and was co-founder and director of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, argues that new and emerging technologies often trigger alarmism among millenarians and even the introduction of Gutenberg's printing press in 1436 caused waves of apocalyptic thinking.

Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie ( also Lindesay or Lyndsay ; c. 1532 – 1580 ) was a Scottish chronicler, author of The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436 – 1565, the first history of Scotland to be composed in Scots rather than Latin.

In a similar way, the nationes were segregated by the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, who maintained at Rhodes the hostels from which they took their name " where foreigners eat and have their places of meeting, each nation apart from the others, and a Knight has charge of each one of these hostels, and provides for the necessities of the inmates according to their religion ", as the Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur noted in 1436.

Founded in 1436 as a monastery village, the city was part of the Principality of Moldavia, which, starting with the 16th century fell under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.

Between 1386 and 1436, Schwyz brought under its direct control the entire March District, which became part of the Canton.

Later at Jihlava, on July 5, 1436, the treaty was made with the Hussites, by which the emperor Sigismund was acknowledged king of Bohemia.

* The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on − 1436 March 30 and ended on − 156 May 7.

In 1436 Dufay composed the festive motet Nuper rosarum flores, one of his most famous compositions, which was sung at the consecration of the cathedral in Florence, while Eugene lived in exile in the city at the nearby church of Santa Maria Novella.

In order to be a canon at Cambrai, he needed a law degree, which he obtained in 1437 ; he may have studied at University of Turin in 1436.

Payment records, supported by stylistic evidence, indicate that his principal contributions ( 1436 – 38 ) to this project included a handsome stone doorframe and an unusual cross window, both of which are identifiable today.

In 1436 the Florentines commissioned of Paolo Uccello a funerary monument, a fresco transferred on canvas, which still stands in the Duomo.

The Czechs and Slovaks were also formally united in 1436 – 1439, 1453 – 1457, and 1490 – 1918, when Hungary ( which included Slovakia ), Bohemia and other Central European states were ruled by the same kings.

By 1436, he and two followers began a movement that would become the foundation of the Hermits of Saint Francis of Assisi, which would later be renamed as the Minim friars.

The University of Greifswald can look back at a long tradition of academic excellence and international collaboration, which reaches back to 1436, when the first teaching began.

Birkirkara is one of Malta's oldest towns and received mention in the 1436 Ecclesiastical Report mentioning the then existing parishes in Malta and Gozo, from which Birkirkara emerged as the largest parish.

Coming of age in 1436 Albert, though a junior heir of Inner Austria, received no full rulership anywhere for a long time, which caused friction in his relations with his elder brother Frederick ( Frederick V as Archduke ).

The story of the famous kiss bestowed by Margaret of Scotland on la précieuse bouche de laquelle sont issus et sortis tant de bons mots et vertueuses paroles (' The invaluable mouth from which issued and which left so many witty remarks and virtuous words ') is mythical, for Margaret did not come to France till 1436, after the poet's death ; but the story, first told by Guillaume Bouchet in his Annales d ' Aquitaine ( 1524 ), is interesting, if only as a proof of the high degree of estimation in which the ugliest man of his day was held.

The Counts of Celje, raised to immediate Reichsgrafen in 1436, became extinct when Count Ulrich II was killed by the liegemen of László Hunyadi in 1456, after which the Habsburg emperor Frederick III, also Duke of Carinthia, seized his territory.

In 1436, Olaus and the Privy Council of Sweden, over which he presided, turned their back on the king and joined the rebellion.

His death is generally assigned to 1436, but it appears from an entry in a manuscript of the Digestum Vetus, which is extant at Munich, made by the hand of one of his pupils who styles him pracceptor meus, that he died on 20 July 1441.

It is clear that most of the dwellings in Cononley date back to mostly the 17th century ; the oldest surviving building ( Milton House ) dates from 1635 ; however, it is rumoured that The Old Hall part of Cononley Hall, which was thought to have been a Jacobite safe house in the 18th century ( escape tunnel in the fireplace ), could be much older, and has a stone in the loft dated 1436, whilst the other half mostly date back to the first half of the 19th century, which was when the village was a centre for hand loom weaving and lead mining.

An Italian translation of De pictura ( Della pittura ) was published in 1436, one year after the original Latin version and addressed Filippo Brunelleschi in the preface.

Guillaume Dufay was a transitional figure in this regard ; he wrote one of the last important motets in the medieval, isorhythmic style, Nuper rosarum flores ( 1436 ), written to commemorate the completion of Filippo Brunelleschi's dome in the Cathedral of Florence.

In 1436 he was given the commission for the monochromatic fresco of Sir John Hawkwood.

Johannes Müller von Königsberg ( 6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476 ), today best known by his Latin toponym Regiomontanus, was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, translator, instrument maker and Catholic bishop.

alt = Masolino & Masaccio, Virgin & Child with St. Anne, Uffizi The second work was perhaps Masaccio's first collaboration with the older and already-renowned artist, Masolino da Panicale ( 1383 / 4-c. 1436 ).

Year 1436 ( MCDXXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

He was crowned emperor in Rome on 31 May 1433, and after obtaining his demands from the Pope returned to Bohemia, where he was recognized as king in 1436, though his power was little more than nominal.

The Bishop of Urbino arrived in Scotland in December 1436 and apparently a reconciliation between James and the papal legate had taken place by the middle of February 1437 but the events of 21 February when James was assassinated prevented the legate from completing his commission.

Paris was finally recaptured by Charles VII of France in 1436.

In May 1436, a few months after Bedford's death, York was appointed to succeed him as Lieutenant in France.

The Lady Chapel and Bishop Robert's Chapel were added in the 13th Century in the Early English style, and in the 15th century, the choir section was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style, including the fan-vaulting Sherborne is still famous for, the remodelling by William Smyth, under Abbot John Brunyng ( 1415 – 1436 ).

With an imposing tower it was built c. 1436 for the Franscicans of London.

In the centre of the bridge stood the chapel of St Anne ( dedicated in 1436 ): the dedication was attributed to the town chapel by Dr Oliver and it has since been adopted, displacing that to St Mary.

An early wooden bridge over the Looe river was in place by 1411 this burned down and was replaced by the first stone bridge, completed in 1436 and featuring a chapel dedicated to St Anne in the middle ( the current bridge, a seven-arched Victorian bridge, was opened in 1853 ).

In 1436 when Jasper was about five years of age his mother Catherine of Valois once again was expecting another child, however she realised that she was dying from an illness, probably cancer, and sought the help of Bermondsey Abbey to be nursed by the sisters there.

John Howard was the son of Sir Robert Howard ( 1385 – 1436 ) and the former Lady Margaret de Mowbray ( 1388 – 1459 ), eldest daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk ( of the first creation ) ( 1366 – 1399 ) and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan ( 1366 – 1425 ).

The town received partial city rights in 1334 and 1436, becoming an important site on the road from Prague to northern Bohemia, Lusatia, and Brandenburg.