Events of 1424

• June 2 – Battle of L'Aquila: Jacopo Caldora and Micheletto Attendolo for the Kingdom of Naples defeat Braccio da Montone for Alfonso V of Aragon.

• August 17 – Battle of Verneuil: An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under the Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas. Alençon is captured and Douglas killed.

Births

• October 31 – King Wladislaus III of Poland (d. 1444)

• date unknown

• *Demetrius Chalcondyles, Greek scholar (d. 1511)

• *Abu Sa'id, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (d. 1469)

Deaths

• January 4 – Muzio Sforza, Italian condottiero

• May 10 – Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan

• June 5 – Braccio da Montone, Italian condottiero

• June 10 – Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)

• June 16 – Johannes Ambundii, Archbishop of Riga

• August 12 – Yongle Emperor of China (b. 1360)

• October 11 – Jan Žižka, Czech general and Hussite leader

• probable – Johannes Abezier, provost and bishop of the Teutonic Knights (b. 1380)