Naples, which was held by Alfonso's brother, Pedro de Aragon, was besieged in 1424 by the Genoese ships and Joan's troops, now led by Francesco Sforza, son of Muzio ( who had died at L ' Aquila ).

Between 1424 and 1433 he worked on the translation of the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, which came to be widely circulated in manuscript form and was published at Rome in 1472 ( the first printed edition of the Lives ; the Greek text was printed only in 1533 ).

** Council of Siena ( 1423 – 1424 ) addressed church reform. Not numbered as it was swiftly disbanded.

Frederick the Peaceful KG ( September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 ) was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 1452.

In 21 March at 6: 30 am ( The hour at which people got up, as the farm was full of loud and restless animals ) 1424, Hilversum received its first official independent status.

She later testified that she experienced her first vision around 1424 at the age of 12 years, when she was out alone in a field and saw visions of figures she identified as Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and bring the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation.

By 1424 Paolo was earning his own living as a painter.

In 1424 the " duo preciso e noto " (" well and known duo ") of Masaccio and Masolino was commissioned by the powerful and rich Felice Brancacci to execute a cycle of frescoes for the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence.

His attempts at the diet of Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a mercenary army were foiled by the resistance of the towns ; and in 1424 the electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, Frederick I of Hohenzollern, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king.

James was eventually released and crowned in 1424.

Year 1424 ( MCDXXIV ) was a leap year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Władysław III ( 31 October 1424 – 10 November 1444 ), also known as Władysław of Varna was King of Poland from 1434, and King of Hungary from 1440, until his death at the Battle of Varna.

( c. 1347 – May 10, 1424 ) was the 99th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

The first extant record of his life comes from the court of John of Bavaria at The Hague, where payments were made to Meyster Jan den malre ( Master Jan the painter ) between 1422 and 1424 who was then a court painter with the rank of valet de chambre, with at first one and then two assistants.

') In 1410 it received city rights, although the growth of the city was severely affected by the 1424 fires.

By the time James was ransomed in 1424, Murdoch had succeeded his father to the dukedom and the governorship of Scotland.

A ransom treaty of 60, 000 marks ( less a dowery remittance of 10, 000 marks ) was agreed at Durham on 28 March 1424 to which James attached his own seal.

It was against this backdrop that James's coronation took place at Scone on 21 May 1424.

James sought to boost his income further through taxation and succeeded in getting parliament to pass legislation in 1424 for a tax to go towards paying off the ransom —£ 26, 000 was raised but James sent only £ 12, 000 to England.

Alexander Grant repudiates James's reputation as the ' law giver ' and explains that nearly all of the king's legislation were reconstructs of laws laid down by previous monarchs and concludes that the notion of James's return to Scotland in 1424 was a sea change in the development of Scots law is ' an exaggeration '.

Bishop Beaufort and the child king's other uncles formed the Regency Government of England 1422-1437, and in 1424 Beaufort became Chancellor once more, but was forced to resign again in 1426 because of disputes with the King's other uncles.

The Yongle Emperor ( Traditional Chinese: 永樂帝 ; Simplified Chinese: 永乐帝 ; pinyin: Yǒnglèdì ; Wade-Giles: Yung-lo Emperor ; ) ( 2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424 ), born Zhu Di ( 朱棣 ), was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

* October 22 – Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, an envoy of the embassy sent by the Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh ( r. 1404 – 1447 ), to the Ming Dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), records his sight and travel over a large floating pontoon bridge at Lanzhou ( constructed earlier in 1372 ) as he crosses the Yellow River on this day.

Lapi sent one of his father's most trusted officials, Batikisan, to petition for an audience with the Chinese Emperor where he presented a " memorial " in gold plaque on November 3, 1424.

In 1424 King Sigismund took the reliques of Saint Sigismund from Prague and sent them to the Hungarian city of Varad, so they could be protected from the Hussites.

On October 22, 1420, Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, the official diarist of the embassy sent by the Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh ( r. 1404 – 1447 ), to the Ming Dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), recorded his sight and travel over a large floating pontoon bridge at Lanzhou ( constructed earlier in 1372 ) as he crossed the Yellow River on this day.

Eanes had made a previous attempt in 1433 which resulted in failure, but tried again under orders of Prince Henry the Navigator, who first sent him in 1424.

He married four times, firstly to Margarida Martins, without known issue, secondly with Branca Dias, fathering Branca Dias Perestrello, Dame of Queen Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, who was the mistress of Dom Pedro de Noronha ( Castle of Gijón, 1379-August 20, 1452 ), Grandson of King Fernando I of Portugal and of Grandson of King Enrique II of Castile, 4th Archbishop of Lisbon ( 1424 – 1452 ), by whom she had issue, including D. Pedro de Noronha, Lord Chamberlain to King John II of Portugal, his son, D. Martinho de Noronha, was sent by King John II to escort Christopher Columbus from Restelo to Vale do Paraíso, a property belonging to the Order of Santiago located Northeast of Lisbon.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.

* The Habsburg Duke Ernest the Iron ( 1377 – 1424 ) is the last duke to be enthroned according to the ancient Karantanian ritual of installing dukes on the Duke's Stone.

With Duke Murdoch's seeming approval, James had Walter arrested on 13 May 1424 and imprisoned on the Bass Rock.

In 1424, he did work in Lastra a Signa, a village protecting the route to Pisa, and in 1431 he did work to the south, on the walls of the village of Staggia.

Only in 1424, did Doge Francesco Foscari decide to extend the rebuilding works to the wing overlooking the Piazzetta, serving as law-courts, and with a ground floor arcade on the outside, open first floor loggias running along the façade, and the internal courtyard side of the wing, completed with the construction of the Porta della Carta ( 1442 ).

His date of birth is unknown, but records place it in the region of 1415 – 1424, based on the fact his apprenticeship fees were paid in 1438.

He was abbot of Inchcolm Abbey ( in the Firth of Forth ) from 1418, was one of the commissioners for the collection of the ransom of James I, King of Scots, in 1423 and 1424, and in 1433 one of the embassy to Paris on the business of the marriage of the king's daughter to the dauphin.

* Madonna and Child, Saint Anne and the Angels, collaboration with Masaccio, tempera on wood, 1424, Uffizi, Florence.

Gerhard VI died in 1404, and soon afterwards war broke out between his sons and Eric of Pomerania, Margaret's successor on the throne of Denmark, who claimed South Jutland as an integral part of the Danish monarchy, a claim formally recognised by the emperor Sigismund in 1424, it was not till 1440 that the struggle ended with the investiture of Count Adolphus VIII, Gerhard VI's son, with the hereditary duchy of Schleswig by Christopher III of Denmark.

In 1424, Emperor Sigismund ruled, based on the fact that the people of Schleswig spoke Danish, followed Danish customs and considered themselves to be Danes, that the territory rightfully belonged to the King of Denmark.

In 1424, civil war having again broken out in Bohemia, Žižka decisively defeated the " Praguers " and Utraquist nobles at Skalice on January 6, and at Malešov on June 7.

However, he died of the plague at Přibyslav on October 11, 1424 on the Moravian frontier.

Language prohibitions were later added: In 1293, the Sorbian language was forbidden in Berne castle before the courts ; in 1327 it was forbidden in Zwickau and Leipzig, and from 1424 on it was forbidden in Meissen.

After several military successes gained by Žižka in 1423 and the following year, a treaty of peace between the Hussites was concluded on 13 September 1424 at Libeň, a village near Prague, now part of that city.

Over two thousand scholars worked on the project under the direction of the Yongle Emperor, who reigned from 1402 to 1424.