History
1440
General
Population: 409 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Kirtticasa Ramayana
Johannes Gutenberg invents printing from moveable metal type (Europe)
- Deaths: Serial killer and occultist Baron Gilles de Rais
Africa
- Oba (king) Ewuare the Great rules Benin and conquers the Yoruba
Americas
- Incas build great fortress at Cuzco
- Reign of Aztec emperor Moctezuma I (Montezuma) and warriors begin to conquer E Mexico
Asia
- India: Kirtticasa's Ramayana written in India
Europe
- France: Death of Baron Gilles de Rais – French occultist and serial killer of 80-200 children - may be false confession
- German States: Frederick of Styria and Catinthia elected German King
- Holy Roman Empire: Frederick III HRE to 1493
- Italian States: Platonic Academy in Florence founded
Start of Republic of Cospaia within modern Italy
- Scotland: Famine