15th century
(
14th century -
15th century -
16th century -
other centuries)
As a means of recording the passage of
time, the
15th century was that
century which lasted from
1401 to
1500.
Events
\n* Renaissance affects philosophy, science and art.\n* The New Monarchs come to power in France, England, Portugal and Spain.\n* Rise of Modern English language from Middle English.\n* Lollardy is suppressed in England; John Badby is the first person burnt at the stake for heresy in England.\n* Great Schism of the Catholic Church is ended in 1417.\n* Jeanne d'Arc in 1429 leads French forces to a victory against England in a battle of the Hundred Years' War.\n* Brazil is discovered by Pedro Alvares Cabral, thus creating the United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil.\n* Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.\n* John Huss is burned at the stake\n* Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince.\n* The Spanish Inquisition is established.\n* Muslims and Jews are expelled from southern Spain after almost 800 years of Moslem rule, in 1492.\n* The Ancient Pueblo Peoples Native American civilization mysteriously disappears\n* Christopher Columbus reaches Caribbean islands in 1492 and South America in 1498, initiating the Spanish Empire.\n* Portuguese Vasco da Gama completes sea voyage to India, in 1498.\n* Zheng He's fleet sails from China to South-East Asia, India, East Africa and Egypt.\n* The Sultanate of Malacca is a regional power. Through its trade and empire, Malayss are converted to Islam.
Significant people
\n* Christopher Columbus sails to the Americas for Spain\n* Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon as the monarchs of a unified kingdom who funded the founding of the New World.\n* Vasco da Gama reaches India for Portugal, creating the first maritime alternative for the Silk Road\n* Filippo Brunelleschi invents one-point perspective, leads innovation in Italian architecture\n* Leonardo da Vinci, inventor and painter\n* Henry VII, English King founds the Tudor dynasty \n* Zheng He, Chinese eunuch admiral and explorer
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
\n* Printing technology refined by Johann Gutenberg.
Decades and years
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