1432
Year 1432 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- January 1 -
- *Yusuf IV is placed on the throne as the new Sultan of Granada, after Muhammad IX is deposed with the support of King Juan II of Castile and Leon. Yusuf dies later in the year and Muhammad IX is restored to the throne a third time
- *Iliaș succeeds his father as Prince of Moldavia.
- January 6 - The siege of Pouancé is undertaken by John V, Duke of Brittany, against his nephew Jean II, Duke of Alençon, as part of a conflict involving the payment of a dowry. The siege lasts until February 22 when Alençon surrenders.
- February 13 - The tall Statue of Gommateshwara is consecrated by King Veera Pandya in the Indian city of Karkala, capital of the Vijayanagara Empire and now part of the Karnataka state.
- March 5 - The Treaty of Rennes is signed between the Kingdom of France. The Chinese do trading until leaving on July 13
- March 29 - Venetian General Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola is arrested in Venice after reporting to a meeting with the Council of Ten and the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo. The Doge dies five days later.
April–June
- April 15 - Francesco Foscari is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Venice, defeating the other candidate, Admiral Pietro Loredan, and becomes the longest serving Venetian chief executive, presiding for more than 34 years.
- April 26 - At Philippopolis in the Ottoman Empire (now Plovdiv in Bulgaria, Mercimek Ahmed completes his translation of the Qabus-nama from the Persian language into Turkish.
- May 5 - With the Tommaso Mocenigo, Doge of Venice, no longer able to protect him, General Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola is beheaded in prison.
- May 6 - Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is first presented to the public.
- May 12 - The new English Parliament session is opened at Westminster by the regents for King Henry VI of England, and Sir John Russell is elected by his peers as Speaker of the House of Commons.
- June 1 - In the battle of San Romano, fought in Italy only from the capital at Florence, the Republic of Florence cavalry and infantry, led by General Niccolò da Tolentino defeat the army of the Republic of Siena, led by Francesco Piccinino. The Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello later commemorates the event in a triptych painting.
- June 29 - At Nicosia John II becomes King of Cyprus upon the death of his father, King Janus.
July–September
- July 17 - The English Parliament closes its session at Westminster. Royal assent is given in the King's name to the Electors of Knights of the Shire Act 1432, the Appearance of Plaintiffs Act and the Exportation Act
- August 3 - The Ming Chinese expedition arrives at Malacca in what is now Malaysia and stays until September 2.
- August 15 - With 132 ships, the navy of Spain's Crown of Aragon, dispatched by King Alfonso V, lands in North Africa at the island of Djerba off of the coast of Tunisia and begins a siege. The Caliph of Ifriqiya, Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II, attempts to defend the island. but the Aragonese take control of Djerba by September 9.
- August 31 - Sigismund Kęstutaitis attempts the capture or murder of Švitrigaila, his rival for the throne of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Švitrigaila manages to escape.
- September 1 - With the departure of Švitrigaila, Sigismund Kęstutaitis is installed as the new Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- September 9 - The S
es of Aragon defeating the soldiers of Ifriqiya. - September 12 - The Ming Chinese expedition reaches the Samudera Pasai Sultanate on Sumatra and establishes trade agreements with the Sultan Zainal Abidin II, remaining at Pasai until November 2.
- September 30 - A delegation from Poland, led by the Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki, arrives in Vilnius and brings a message Grand Duke Sigismund that King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland recognizes Sigismund as Lithuania's ruler, for life.
October–December
- October 25 - Grand Duke Sigismund of Lithuania signs a document at Grodno : The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana, launching the most active phase of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- December 10 - The Ming Chinese expedition stops briefly at the Calicut Kingdom and leaves on December 14 to sail westward across the Indian Ocean toward the island of Hormuz.
Date unknown
- The Université de Caen is founded.
- The first baccalaureate service is believed to have originated at the University of Oxford.