1400 AD to 1492 AD
1400 - 1449 AD
The first Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti dies on September 3, 1402 AD. The Council of Pisa held between March 25 and August 7, 1409 AD fails to end the Western Schism. Polish-Lithuanian forces decisively defeat the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Tannenberg (Grunwald) on July 15, 1410 AD. The Council of Constance is opened on November 5, 1414 AD. Bohemian religious leader Jan Hus is burned at the stake on July 7, 1415 AD. Henry V of England decisively defeats the French forces in the Battle of Agincourt on October 25, 1415 AD. Parakramabahu I unifies Sri Lanka under his authority in 1415 AD. The Council of Constance ends the Western Schism with election of Pope Martin V on November 11, 1417 AD. Henry the Navigator conquers Ceuta, a Muslim port in North Africa in 1415 AD. The First Prague Defenestration occurs on July 30, 1419 AD. The Hussite Wars 1420-1434 AD. The Yongle Emperor moves capital of China to Beijing in 1421. Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orleans on May 8, 1429 AD. The Aztec Empire is established ca. 1430 AD. Joan of Arc is burned at the stake on May 30, 1431 AD. Sigismund, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Lombardy and Germany is crowned Holy Roman Emperor on May 31, 1433 AD. The founder of the Medici dynasty, Cosimo the Elder assumes power in Florence in 1434 AD. Emergence of the Inca Civilization in 1438 AD. Flemish painter Jan van Eyck dies on July 9, 1441 AD. Ottoman Sultan Murad II decisively defeats the combined Polish-Hungarian forces in the Battle of Varna on November 10, 1444 AD. Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press ca. 1445 AD.
1450 - 1492 ADMachu Picchu is built by the Incas ca. 1450 AD. Italian condottiero, Francesco Sforza assumes power in Milan in 1450 AD. Frederick III is the last Holy Roman Emperor to be crowned in Rome on March 9, 1453 AD. The Hundred Years' War ends with English withdrawal without a formal peace treaty in 1453 AD. The Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453 AD. The outbreak of the Wars of the Roses on May 22, 1455 AD. The Ottoman Turks conquer Serbia in 1459 AD. The Second Peace of Torun is signed by the Teutonic Knights and Polish-Lithuanian union on October 19, 1466 AD. The Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon marry in 1469 AD. Edward IV of England orders assassination of the deposed Lancastrian king Henry VI on May 21, 1471 AD. The Burgundian War 1474-1477 AD. Wallachian Prince Vlad III the Impaler (Dracula) dies in December 1476 AD. The establishment of the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 AD. Grand Prince of Moscow, Ivan III the Great liberates Russia from the Mongol yoke in 1480 AD. Pope Innocent VIII issues a papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus recognizing the existence of witches on December 5, 1484 AD. Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) decisively defeats the Yorkist king Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth Field and ends the Wars of the Roses on August 22, 1485 AD. Bartolomeu Dias sails around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488 AD. Lorenzo de'Medici known as Lorenzo the Magnificent dies in April 9, 1492 AD. Rodrigo Borgia is elected Pope (Alexander VI) on August 10, 1492 AD.