1440

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Centuries:	14th Century		15th Century			16th Century
Decades:	1410s	1420s	1430s	1440s	1450s	1460s	1470s
Years:	1437	1438	1439	1440	1441	1442	1443

Undated

• Ongoing: Hundred Years' War.
• Event: The Ming Dynasty of China sets up large-scale night watches to detect (and prosecute) secretive silver mining, which they had declared illegal in 1438.
• Event: Gilles de Rais assaults a clergyman. These leads to an investigation and eventually trial for his many other crimes. He is arrested together with two of his servants and, following a trial in which some of the evidence (that he is a serial killer) was considered so vile that it was deleted from the court records, all three men were sentenced to be hanged and their bodies burnt.

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September

• September 13:
  • Event: Gilles de Rais is taken into custody for his many horrific crimes… but probably wouldn't have been arrested if he hadn't attacked a powerful member of the church.

October

• October 22:
  • Event: Gilles de Rais confesses, and is sentenced to execution.

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