Year 1436 (MCDXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December January 11 – Eric of Pomerania is deposed from the Swedish throne for the second time, only three months after having been reinstated. Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson remains the leader of the land, in his capacity of rikshövitsman (military commander of the realm). February – Charles Knutsson becomes joint rikshövitsman with Engelbrekt (the two will share the title until Engelbrekt's death). April – Paris is recaptured from the English by French forces during the Hundred Years War. May 4 – Following the murderer of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, while on his way to Stockholm for negotiations. Charles Knutsson temporarily holds the position of leader of Sweden alone. The probable first meeting of the Riksdag of the Estates takes place afterwards, in Uppsala, Sweden. June 25 Scottish princess Margaret Stewart marries the future Louis XI of France in Tours. The Incorporated Guild of Smiths in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) is founded. July 5 – The Hussite Wars effectively end in Bohemia. Sigismund is accepted as King. July 29 – French forces abandon their Siege of Calais. August 30 – Brunelleschi's Dome at Florence Cathedral is dedicated. September 1 – Eric of Pomerania is once again reinstated as king of Sweden. Charles Knutsson, at the same time, resigns the post of rikshövitsman. September 10 – Battle of Piperdean: The Scottish defeat the English. Date unknown Vlad II Dracul seizes the recently vacated throne of Wallachia, with Hungarian support. The Bosnian language is first mentioned in a document. Date of the Visokom papers, the last direct sources on the old town of Visoki. In Ming dynasty China, the inauguration of the Zhengtong Emperor takes place. In Ming dynasty China, a significant portion of the southern grain tax is commuted to payments in silver, known as the Gold Floral Silver (). This comes about due to officials' and military generals' increasing demands to be paid in silver instead of grain, as commercial transactions draw more silver into nationwide circulation. Some counties have trouble transporting all the required grain to meet their tax quotas, so it makes sense to pay the government in silver, a medium of exchange that is already abundant amongst landowners, through their own private commercial affairs. The Florentine polymath Leon Battista Alberti begins writing the treatise On Painting, in which he argues for