Events of 1429

• February 12 – Battle of Rouvray (or "of the Herrings"): English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk at Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart.

• April 29 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

• April 30 – Siege of Orléans: Joan of Arc enters Orléans with a relief expedition.

• May 7 – The Tourelles, the last English siege fortification at Orléans, falls. Joan of Arc becomes the hero of the battle by returning wounded to lead the final charge.

• May 8 – The English, weakened by disease and lack of supplies, depart Orléans.

• June 18 – Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.

• July 17 – Charles VII of France crowned in Rheims.

• September 8 – Joan of Arc leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris and is wounded.

• November 24 – Joan besieged La Charité.

• Fire destroys Turku.

• A series of seven customs offices and barriers are installed along the Grand Canal of China, during the reign of the Ming Dynasty ruler Emperor Yongle.

Births

• January 17? – Antonio del Pollaiolo, Italian painter, sculptor and jeweller (d. 1498)

• January 30 – Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel (d. 1438)

• March 23 – Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)

• probable – Mino da Fiesole, Florentine sculptor (d. 1484)

Deaths

• February – Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, founder of the Medici dynasty of Florence (b. 1360)

• June 22 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1380)

• September 28 – Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria (b. 1394)

• December 30 – Margaret Holland, English noblewoman (b. 1385)

• date unknown – Emperor Yeshaq I of Ethiopia (b. 1414)