File: Rennes-Portes Mordelaises. jpg | The Mordelles Gates ( Portes mordelaises ), built in 1440, served as the principal entry to the town during the Middle Ages.

In 1721 the town council acquired the palace of Baroness Sponheim ( today's Old Town Hall or Altes Rathaus ) as a replacement for the town hall built in 1440 in the middle of the market place and destroyed by fire.

In 1436 part of the garrison of Calais invaded Wervik and again burnt the town to ashes, in 1440 the town was burnt again.

Between 1440 and 1443 there was a fighting between the castle of Bratislava, supporting king Ladislaus III of Poland, and the actual town of Bratislava below the castle hill, supporting ( and owned by ) queen Elisabeth.

The town was burned to the ground in 1439 and 1440, when Tatars invaded Moldavia.

In 1440 an academy was founded in the town, one of the most influential schools of higher education in Poland.

The town became part of the Principality of Moldavia in 1359 and the fortress is enlarged and rebuilt in 1407 under Alexander the Kind and in 1440 under Stephen the Great.

Allenstein joined the Prussian Confederation in 1440.

In 1440, Grudziądz joined the Prussian Confederation and formally asked the King of Poland, Casimir IV Jagiellon to join Poland.

In 1440 several western and eastern Prussian towns formed the Prussian Confederation, which led the revolt of Prussia against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in 1454.

* 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.

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.

On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).

Towns which founded the Prussian Confederation on 14 March 1440:

In 1440, the gentry of Thorn formed the Prussian Confederation, and in 1454 rose with the Confederation against the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years ' War.

In view of rising taxes, several local nobles and Hanseatic cities in 1440 established the Prussian Confederation at Kwidzyn ( Marienwerder ) protesting against the Order's internal and financial policies.

The rebellious Prussian Confederation was founded in Marienwerder on March 14, 1440.

Since march 31st, 1440 Starogard was a member of the Prussian Confederation.

* The Prussian Confederation, a league of cities formed in 1440 to resist taxes levied by the Teutonic Order

In March 1440, gentry ( mainly from Culmerland ) and the Hanseatic cities of Danzig, Elbing, Kneiphof, Thorn and other Prussian cities founded the Prussian Confederation to free themselves from the overlordship 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 ).

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 ).

The station was launched in 1964 by Confederation Broadcasting, with the call letters CKPM at 1440 AM.

Since 2002 the Victorian Industry has seen a significant decline in catches, with the total allowable catch ( TAC ) reduced from 1440 tonnes to 787 tonnes for the 2011 / 12 fishing year.

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

In 1435, Frederick I became the elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which he ruled until 1440.

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.

There were also painted schemes in Basel ( the earliest dating from c. 1440 ); a series of paintings on canvas by Bernt Notke, in Lübeck ( 1463 ); the initial fragment of the original Bernt Notke painting ( accomplished at the end of the 15th century ) in the St Nicholas ' Church, Tallinn, Estonia ; the painting at the back wall of the chapel of Sv.

* 1440 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Bohemian and Hungarian monarch ( d. 1457 )

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.

He held his second cousin once removed Ladislaus the Posthumous, the ruler of the Archduchy of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, ( born in 1440 ) as a prisoner and attempted to extend his guardianship over him in perpetuity to maintain his control over Lower Austria.

In 1440, his fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples were occupied by King Alfonso I, and, to recover the situation, Sforza reconciled himself with Filippo Visconti.

* Hugo van der Goes, painter ( c. 1440 – 1482 )

It therefore proved somewhat damaging that Sigismund of Luxemburg ( king 1410, emperor 1433 – 37 ) and Frederick III of Habsburg ( king 1440, emperor 1452 – 93 ) neglected the old core lands of the empire and mostly resided in their own lands.

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.

* Boalch, Donald H. ( 1995 ) Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440 – 1840, 3rd ed., with updates by Andreas H. Roth and Charles Mould, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-318429-X.

* 1440 – Ivan III of Russia ( d. 1505 )

The machine had insufficient range ( 1440 km ) to operate over Britain, but had machine guns for use against aircraft and experimental 80 kg bombs.

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.

* 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.