It is a large boys ' school, with over 1, 300 pupils, and was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as " The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor ".

The name " King's Scholars " derives from the fact that the school was founded by King Henry VI in 1440 and was, therefore, granted royal favour.

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

Under the influence of Archbishop Chicheley, who had himself founded two colleges in imitation of Wykeham, and Thomas Bekynton, king's secretary and privy seal, and other Wykehamists, Henry VI, on 11 October 1440, founded, in imitation of Winchester College, a college in the parish church of Eton by Windsor not far from our birthplace, called the King's College of the Blessed Mary of Eton by Windsor, as a sort of first-fruits of his taking the government on himself.

1440 ), or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the name of an inventor of a printing press from Haarlem.

Josquin was long mistaken for a man with a similar name, Josquin de Kessalia, born around the year 1440, who sang in Milan from 1459 to 1474, dying in 1498.

Beckington played a leading role as architect of the legal aspects of Henry VI's foundation of Eton College in 1440 ; he is commemorated in the name of the school's central refectory, ' Bekynton '.

Ambrogio Calepino ( c. 1440 – 1510 ), commonly known by the Latin form of his name, Calepinus, was an Italian lexicographer.

Zoe Palaiologina (), who later changed her name to Sophia Palaiologina (; between 1440 and 1449 or c. 1455 – 7 April 1503 ), Grand Duchess of Moscow, was a niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI and second wife of Ivan III of Russia.

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

Compositions signed with the name M. and to date not identified as works of other composers are noted with black mensura in two Polish collections of polyphonic music from the second quarter of the XV century ( 1440?

The name first appears in Italian sources dated to 1466 in a " lost letter ", 1471 in a case of prohibition and 1477, in which it is listed in a list of games permitted by law ; literary references may date to around 1440.

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

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.

* 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.

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 ).

If, as is widely thought, he is the author of the frescoes Stories of the Virgin and Story of Saint Stephen in the Cappella dell ' Assunta, Florence, then he would have visited nearby Prato sometime between 1435 and 1440.

The next notice is a statement in the Scotichronicon, composed by John of Fordun between 1377 and 1384, and revised by Walter Bower in about 1440.

* 1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.

Sir Donald McDuck, nicknamed " Black Donald " because of his foul temper, is said to have invented Golf, Hammer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440.

Printers generally have resolutions between 240 and 1440 pixels per inch ; in some printers the horizontal resolution is different from the vertical.

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There is also evidence of a cut and folded paper box from 1440.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word pilcrow " apparently " originated in English as an unattested version of the French pelagraphe, a corruption of paragraph ; the earliest reference is c. 1440.

Bao ' en Temple is a well-preserved 15th century monastery complex built between 1440 and 1446 during Emperor Yingzong's reign ( 1427 – 64 ) in the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ).

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

In a more complicated system such as a speaking clock, the voice artist usually doesn't actually record 1440 different announcements, one for each minute of the day, or even 60 ( one for each minute of the hour ), instead the announcement is re-assembled from fragments such as " minutes past " " eighteen " and " pm.

Charles is also a major character in Margaret Frazer's The Maiden's Tale, a historical mystery which gives a very sympathetic fictional account of a few weeks of his life in England in the autumn of 1439, shortly before his release in 1440.

Jesus ' side is pierced with a spear, Fra Angelico ( c. 1440 ), Dominican monastery of San Marco, Florence.

Blind Harry ( c. 1440 – 1492 ), also known as Harry, Hary or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace.

English usage of the term caraway dates back to at least 1440, and is considered by Skeat to be of Arabic origin, though Katzer believes the Arabic al-karawya ( cf.

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.

The invention of the printing press in Germany around 1440 made it possible for common people to have access to printed materials including the Bible.

Kabīr ( also Kabīra ) ( Hindi: कब ी र, Punjabi: ਕਬ ੀ ਰ, Urdu: کبير ‎) ( 1440 – 1518 ) was a mystic poet and sant of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement.

In Lincoln's Inn, the idea of a Bencher was believed to have begun far earlier than elsewhere ; there are records of four Benchers being sworn in in 1440.

A bank account, for example, may have its interest compounded every year: in this case, an account with ¤ 1000 initial principal and 20 % interest per year would have a balance of ¤ 1200 at the end of the first year, ¤ 1440 at the end of the second year, and so on.

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.

From Buda, in March 1440, he published an encyclical calling on all Russian bishops to accept the union, but when he at last arrived in Moscow ( Easter, 1441 ), and proclaimed the union in the Kremlin church, he found that the Grand Duke Vasily II of Moscow and most of the bishops and people would have none of it.

The castle was built in 1440 and seems to have a very specific and unique style of architecture.

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.

Many 27 " monitors have native resolutions of 2560 × 1440 and hence operate at 1440p.

The first official list of these prerogatives was established relatively late, under Louis XI after 1440, and included the right to hunt, the right to wear a sword and have a coat of arms, and, in principle, the right to possess a fief or seigneurie.