| | ST : | Alchemy becomes more and more a field for swindlers | | M : | First mention of the dulcimer | | VA : | Early Renaissance period | | ED : | Jean Froissart: Chronicles | | LT : | Earliest known literature written in Cornish tongue | | LT : | Flourishing of the ecclesiastical drama in Italy | | PH : | Ascent of the Medici in Florence | | PH : | Wenceslas IV deposed and succeeded by Rupert III of the Palatinate | | PH : | Richard II murdered GO ! | | PH : | Henry IV suppresses rebellion of the barons |
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| | PH : | Klause Störtebeker, the pirate, executed at Hamburg | | VA : | Tommaso Cassai (Masaccio) is born |
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| | ED : | Compilation of Yung Lo Ta Tien, Chin. encyclopaedia in 22,937 vols. (only three copies made) | | PH : | Bajazet dies; succeeded by his son Suleiman I |
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| | ST : | Konrad Kyeser: Bellifortis, book of military technology | | PH : | Timur dies; succeeded by Shah Rokh |
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| | RP : | Pope Gregory XII | | PH : | Robert II of Scotland dies; succeeded by James I, who is imprisoned in England | | VA : | Artist Fra Filippo Lippi is born |
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| | DL : | Bethlehem Hospital, London, Bedlam, becomes an institution for the insane | | PH : | Louis, Duke of Orleans, murdered by Burgundians; start of civil war in France |
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| | RP : | Cardinals of Rome and Avignon meet to end Great Schism |
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| | ED : | Leipzig University founded by Ger. refugees from Prague | | RP : | Pope Gregory XII abdicates; Council of Pisa, Pope Alexander V |
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| | RP : | Hus and his followers excommunicated by the Archbishop of Prague | | RP : | Pope John XXIII, antipope | | PH : | King Rupert dies |
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| | ED : | Founding of St. Andrews University, Edinburgh | | RP : | Pope John XXIII excommunicates Jan Hus | | PH : | Sigismund, King of Hungary, son of Charles IV, elected Ger. King, and crowned emperor |
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| | VA : | Filippo Bruneleschi: Rules of Perspective |
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| | RP : | The Disputation of Tortosa (Spain): Joseph Albo defends the Jewish faith | | PH : | Henry IV dies; succeeded by his son Henry V |
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| | DL : | The Medici of Florence becomes bankers to the papacy | | RP : | Thomas à Kempis: Imitatio Christi | | RP : | The Council of Constance to settle "causa unionis, reformationis, fedei" |
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| | RP : | Hus burned at the stake at Constance for heresy | | RP : | Pope John XXIII deposed |
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| | RP : | Jerome of Prague, a follower of Hus, burned for heresy | | VA : | The Limbourg Brothers die, probably of plague |
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| | RP : | Pope Martin V elected in Rome: end of Great Schism | | RP : | Council of Constance deposes Pope Benedict XIII, who holds out as pretender-pope until his death |
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| | PH : | Ex-King Wenceslas dies; Sigismund obtains Bohemia | | PH : | War between Empire and Bohemian Hussites | | PH : | Henry allies with Philip II of Burgundy |
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| | PH : | Treaty of Troyes; Henry V, recognised by Charles VI as heir apparent to the French throne, marries Catherine of France and enters Paris | | VA : | Artist Piero della Francesca born |
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| | PH : | Henry V of England dies; succeeded by nine-month-old Henry VI | | PH : | Charles VI of France dies; succeeded by Charles VII |
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| | PH : | James I of Scotland released by the English |
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| | PH : | John VIII, Byzantine Emperor | | PH : | Struggles in Bohemia between Ziska's followers, the Utraquists, and the radical Taborites |
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| | M : | Holland becomes the centre of European music | | ED : | Louvain University founded |
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| | PH : | Itzcoatl, King of the Aztecs, in Mexico, enlarges his empire | | ED : | Lincoln College, Oxford, founded | | VA : | Tommaso Cassai (Masaccio) dies |
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| | PH : | Treaty of Delft: peace between England and Flanders | | PH : | Joan of Arc leads Fr. armies against England |
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| | PH : | Joan of Arc raises siege of Orleans; Charles VII crowned in Rheims | | PH : | Henry VI crowned at Westminster | | PH : | Philip of Burgundy creates the Order of the Golden Fleece |
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| | LT : | Modern English develops from Middle English | | VA : | Beginning of first Dutch school | | DL : | "Mad Marjorie", the great cast-iron gun, introduced |
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| | PH : | Joan of Arc burned at the stake at Rouen | | PH : | Henry VI of England crowned King of France in Paris | | PH : | First Ger. peasant revolt at Worms | | RP : | Pope Eugene IV | | ED : | Universities of Caen and of Poitiers founded | | VA : | Artist Andrea Mantegna born |
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| | ST : | Port sailor Gonzalo Cabral discovers the Azores |
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| | PH : | Sigismund crowned Holy Roman Emperor | | DL : | The double-eagle becomes the emblem of the Holy Roman emperors |
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| | PH : | Vladislav III, King of Poland | | PH : | Cosimo de' Medici becomes ruler of Florence | | RP : | Revolt in Rome; Pope Eugene IV flees to Florence |
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| | PH : | Peace of Arras between Charles VII and Philip of Burgundy | | PH : | Swed. Parliament (Riksdag) meets for the first time |
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| | PH : | Compact of Iglau ends Hussite Wars, Emperor Sigismund acknowledged as King of Bohemia |
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| | PH : | James I murdered at Perth; succeeded by James II | | PH : | Emperor Sigismund dies; last of the House of Luxembourg; succeeded as king of Hungary, Bohemia, and Germany by his son-in-law, Albert V | | M : | John Dunstable develops counterpoint in musical composition | | ED : | All Soul's College, Oxford, founded |
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| | PH : | Nine-years' truce between England and Scotland | | PH : | Pachacutec founds Inca rule in Peru |
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| | PH : | The heirs to the Fr. throne receive the title Conte du Dauphiné |
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| | PH : | Frederick of Styria and Carinthia elected Ger. King | | ED : | Platonic Academy, Florence, founded |
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| | ED : | Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, founded | | ST : | Port. navigators find the first Negroes near Cape Blanc, western Africa, and start slave trade again |
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| | DL : | Eng. plague order on quarantine and cleansing |
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| | PH : | Vladislav III of Poland and Hungary killed by the Turks at the Battle of Varna | | ED : | Cosimo de' Medici founds the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence | | VA : | Robert Campin dies |
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| | ST : | Port. navigator Diniz Diaz discovers Cape Verde | | PH : | Copenhagen becomes Dan. capital | | VA : | Botticelli born, day unknown |
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| | PH : | János Hunyady elected regent of Hungary | | VA : | Artist Perugino born in Umbria |
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| | PH : | Scanderbeg defeats Murad II, and gains independence for India, Persia, and Afghanistan | | RP : | Pope Nicholas V | | ED : | Founding of Palermo University |
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| | PH : | Anglo-Scot. war renewed, Lancaster and York forming the two rival groups in England | | PH : | Knutson Bonde elected King Charles VIII of Sweden | | PH : | Constantine XI Palaeologus the last Byzantine Emperor |
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| | PH : | English break truce with France, capture Fougères | | VA : | Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi (Ghirlandaio) born |
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| | PH : | Jack Cade's rebellion in England | | LT : | Vatican Library founded | | LT : | Gutenberg prints the Constance Mass Book | | VA : | Florence under the Medici becomes centre of Renaissance and humanism | | DL : | Mocha in south-western Arabia becomes main port for coffee export | | VA : | Hieronymus Bosch born |
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| | PH : | Mohammed I, Sultan of the Turks | | ED : | Glasgow University founded |
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| | PH : | Frederick III crowned emperor | | PH : | George of Podebrad elected Regent of Bohemia | | ST : | Metal plates are used for printing | | VA : | Artist Leonardo da Vinci is born in Tuscany |
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| | PH : | Turks capture Constantinople and kill Emperor Constantine XI, end of the Byzantine Empire | | PH : | End of Hundred years' War between England and France | | ST : | Gutenberg and his financier print the 42-line bible at Mainz |
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| | PH : | Peace of Lodi between Venice and Milan | | PH : | Richard, Duke of York, named "Protector of England" during insanity for Henry VI; Edward, son of Henry, named Prince of Wales | | DL : | Gutenberg produces Indulgences, bearing printed data |
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| | PH : | Duke of York, excluded from Council, defeats royal forces at St. Albans, May, and becomes again "Protector": Beginning of the Wars of the Roses | | ST : | The Venetian navigator Cadamosto explores the Senegal River | | VA : | Artist Fra Angelico dies |
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| | PH : | The trial of Joan of Arc annulled | | PH : | János Hunyadi dies |
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| | PH : | Ladislas V Posthumus, King of Hungary and Bohemia, dies; Frederick III inherits Upper and Lower Austria |
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| | PH : | The Hussite leader, George of Podebrad, becomes King of Bohemia | | PH : | Matthias Corvinus, son of János Hunyady, becomes King of Hungary | | RP : | Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini becomes Pope Pius II |
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| | PH : | Renewal of civil war in England |
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| | PH : | James II of Scotland dies; succeeded by James III | | VA : | Hans Holbein the Elder born |
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| | PH : | Edward, son of Richard of York, crowned Edward IV, King of England | | PH : | Charles VII of France dies; succeeded by Louis XI | | PH : | Scanderbeg becomes Prince of Albania |
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