He also mentions that this flag, falling from the sky during the Russian campaign of King Valdemar II, is the very same flag that King Eric of Pomerania took with him when he left the country in 1440 after being deposed as King.

Due to the growing dissatisfaction over King Eric of Pomerania among the Swedish nobility, Charles was in 1436 made Rikshövitsman, an office as Military Governor of the Realm and finally replacing the king as an elected regent from 1438 to 1440, as the result of the rebellion by Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson.

Eric of Pomerania was forced to step down from the throne and in 1440 Christopher of Bavaria, was elected king in the Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

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 1440, the Norwegian privy council reluctantly deposed king Eric III ( 1383-1459 ), after Denmark and Sweden had done the same.

In 1440 they dethroned King Eric III.

Bytom is one of the oldest cities of Upper Silesia, having been known as Bitom in 1136 and Beuthen since 1440.

It restored the original 13 members of the old Confederation and added 6 new cantons, two ( St Gallen and Graubünden or Grisons ) having been formerly " associates ", and the four others being made up of the subject lands conquered at different times — Aargau ( 1415 ), Thurgau ( 1460 ), Ticino ( 1440, 1500, 1512 ), and Vaud ( 1536 ).

In 1440, in the King's name, an invitation is said to have been sent to the young 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother, eleven-year-old David, to visit the king at Edinburgh Castle in November 1440.

The King had in fact founded Eton College on 11 October 1440, but up until 1443 King's and Eton had been unconnected.

As many as 137 painters and pictorial students passed through Squarcione's school, which had been established towards 1440 and which became famous all over Italy.

Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Catholic priest and Renaissance humanist, is credited with first exposing the forgery with solid philological arguments in 1439 – 1440, although the document's authenticity had already been repeatedly contested since 1001.

Talbot besieged Harfleur from August 1440, which for five months had been in French hands.

On April 30, 2005, WOR moved its offices and studios from 1440 Broadway at 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan where it had been based for 79 years to a new facility at 111 Broadway near Wall Street in Downtown Manhattan.

If et-Tell is indeed Ai, this poses a problem for defenders of the literal historicity of the Biblical accounts concerning the origin of ancient Israel ; the reason for this is that traditional dating schemes place the Exodus from Egypt in 1440 BC and Joshua's conquest of Canaan around 1400 BC, a time at which the archaeological evidence shows Ai to have been completely unoccupied, as it had been for almost 1000 years.

The bridge across the River Avon is believed to have been completed in around 1440 ; there have been a number of quays on the river and these have been used for the products of the local lime kilns, to bring goods from Plymouth and later for bringing coal to the village.

The name has been abbreviated over the years from " Camelot ", and it first appeared in local records in 1440.

On 12 October 1440 she died, and rumours spread that she had been poisoned by Sigismondo.

He may have learnt these techniques from the Flemish artist Barthélemy d ' Eyck — a putative relative of Jan van Eyck — who seems to have been in Naples around 1440.

The earliest known date of a picture of his, an altar-piece in the Accademia is 1440 ; the latest, in the Lateran museum, 1464, but he appears to have been alive in 1470. He worked in company his brother in law, Giovanni d ' Alemagna ( also known as " Joannes de Alemania ", who has also been regarded as a brother ( Giovanni of Murano ), but no trace of this painter exists of a date later than 1447.

It has been much extended since, with the perpendicular style tower added around 1440 and most of the rest of the fabric renewed in the 19th century.

The next is the Altarpiece of the Virgin ( c. 1440 ), which has been associated with panels now in Basel, Nuremberg, and Strasbourg ( Musée de l ’ Œuvre Notre-Dame ).

* 1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.

The family also provided two Holy Roman Emperors ( 1328 / 1742 ), one King of the Romans ( 1400 ), two Anti-Kings of Bohemia ( 1619 / 1742 ), one King of Hungary ( 1305 ), one King of Denmark and Norway ( 1440 ) and a King of Greece ( 1832 – 1862 ).

* Christopher III of Denmark, also King of Sweden 1440

Christopher of Bavaria or Christopher the Bavarian ; as king named Christopher ( Cristofforus ); Danish and Norwegian: Christoffer af / av Bayern ; Swedish Kristofer av Bayern ( 26 February 1416 – 5 or 6 January 1448 ) was union king of Denmark ( 1440 – 1448 as Christopher III ), Sweden ( 1441 – 1448 ) and Norway ( 1442 – 1448 ).

As Eric's nephew, Christopher, who was rather unfamiliar with Scandinavian conditions, was elected by the Danish State Council as the successor to his uncle, first as regent from 1439, and then proclaimed King of Denmark at the Viborg Assembly ( Danish landsting ) on 9 April 1440.

* Christopher of Bavaria, union king of Denmark ( 1440 – 1448 ), Sweden ( 1441 – 1448 ) and Norway ( 1442 – 1448 )

On 12 September 1445, Dorothea married Christopher of Bavaria, the King of Denmark from 1440 to 1448, Sweden from 1441 to 1448 and Norway from 1442 to 1448.

* December 14 – Sten Sture the Elder, regent of Sweden 1470 – 1497 and 1501 – 1503 ( b. 1440 )

Sten Sture the Elder ( Sten Sture den äldre ; 1440 – 14 December 1503 ) was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden from ( 1470 – 1497 and 1501 – 1503 ).

However, after the 1440 death of Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, the Franconian cadet branch of the family was not politically united with the main Brandenburg line, remaining independent as " Brandenburg-Ansbach ".

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 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power.

Hartmann Schedel ( 13 February 1440 – 28 November 1514 ) was a German physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press.

It was in Strasbourg in 1440 that Gutenberg is said to have perfected and unveiled the secret of printing based on his research, mysteriously entitled Kunst und Aventur ( art and enterprise ).

Elisabeth was childless, and in 1440 made a treaty with her powerful neighbour Philip III, Duke of Burgundy that Philip would administer the duchy and inherit it after the Duchess Elisabeth's death.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses.

The word has an unknown origin and was originally ( c. 1440 ) used as a term for a short knife or dagger, probably related to Dutch spyd and / or the Latin " spad -" root meaning " sword "; cf.

The Prussian Confederation (, ) was an organization formed in 1440 by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia to oppose the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

Zürich was expelled from the Confederation from 1440 to 1450 due to a conflict over the territory of Toggenburg ( the Old Zürich War ).

Zurich was temporarily expelled from the confederacy in 1440 due to a war with the other member states over the territory of Toggenburg ( the Old Zurich War ).

He was active between about 1440 to about 1469.

The last of the Da Polenta, Ostasio III, was ousted by the Republic of Venice in 1440, and the city was annexed to the Venetian territories.

Frederick (; September 21, 1371 in Nuremberg – September 20, 1440 ) was Burgrave of Nuremberg as Frederick VI and Elector of Brandenburg as Frederick I.

Upon his death in 1440, Frederick was succeeded as elector by his second-eldest son, Frederick II.

Frederick II of Brandenburg () ( 19 November 1413 – 10 February 1471 ), nicknamed " the Iron " ( der Eiserne ) and sometimes " Irontooth " ( Eisenzahn ), was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1440 until his abdication in 1470, and was a member of the House of Hohenzollern.

Year 1440 ( MCDXL ) was a leap year starting on Friday ( 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.

This situation continued until 1440, when Władysław was offered the crown of Hungary.

Owen, their father, was eventually released on £ 2000 bail, but was pardoned in November 1439 ( and the bail cancelled in 1440 ).

His consequent promotion was rapid ; and the ambitious young cleric became a cardinal in 1440 and gained popularity through his tender-hearted generosity.