 |
|
|
| 1400 |
|
Geoffrey Chaucer
(Author of the Canterbury Tales)
dies
|
| 1402 |
|
Jan Hus becomes
rector of the University of Prague
|
| 1408-1416 |
|
Les Très Riches
Heures by the Limburg brothers for the
Duke of Berry
|
| 1437 |
|
Emperor Sigismund
(the last Emperor of Luxembourg) dies
|
| 1415 |
|
Resumption of the
100-year war between England and France.
French are defeated at the battle of
Azincourt
Jan Hus is burned at the council of
Constance
|
| 1418 |
|
First dated wood
cutting in Europe (The Madonna of
Brussels)
End of the great papal schism
|
| 1419-1436 |
|
Hussite wars
|
| 1417-1435 |
|
The Italian
humanist Leonardi Bruni translates the
politics of Aristotle into Italian
|
| 1427-52 |
|
The Azores become
Portuguese property
|
| 1431 |
|
Inquisition trial
and execution of Joan of Arc, the maid of
Orleans, in Rouen
|
| 1431-65 |
|
François Villon
(French author of ballads)
|
| 1432 |
|
The altar of Gent
by Hubert and Jan van Eycks
|
| 1434 |
|
Cosimo de Medici
becomes the ruler of the city of Florence
De concordantia catholica by Nikolaus of
Kues
Completion of the cupola of the cathedral
of Florence by Filippo Brunelleschi
|
| 1436 |
|
The 100-year war
between England and France ends
First Portuguese settlements on the West
African coast
|
| 1440 |
|
Friedrich III.
becomes King of Germany
|
| 1441 |
|
Beginning of the
Portuguese slave trade
|
| 1444/45 |
|
Raids of the
Armagnaks
Fire arms and mercenary troops become
more and more common in European battle
fields
|
| 1444 |
|
Cosimo de Medici
establishes the Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana in Florence
|
| 1445 |
|
Death of the poet
Oswald of Wolkenstein
|
| 1444-46 |
|
Prokop Waldvogel
teaches the art of artistic writing in
Avignon
|
| 1446 |
|
Oldest dated
copperplate engraving (Passion of Berlin)
|
| 1444-1448 |
|
Council of Basel
|
| 1447-1455 |
|
Pope Nikolaus V.,
donor of the Biblioteca Vaticana
|
| 1450 |
|
The former
mercenary leader Franzesco Sforza becomes
duke of Milano
|
| 1450/51 |
|
Diplomatic visit of
Nikolaus of Kues to Germany
|
| 1452 |
|
Imperial coronation
of Friedrich III. in Rome
Leonardo da Vinci and Savonarola are born
|
| 1452 |
|
Leon Battista
Alberti: On the art of construction
|
| 1452-1454/55 |
|
Gutenberg prints
his 42-line Bible in Mainz with a
circulation of approximately 180 copies
|
| 1453 |
|
Conquest of
Constantinople by Mohamed II. (the Great)
Flight of numerous Greek scholars to
Italy
|
| 1454 |
|
Gutenberg prints
letters of indulgence in Mainz, the
proceeds of which were meant to finance a
crusade against the Turks
|
| 1455 |
|
Start of the War of
the Roses between the houses of York and
Lancaster in England
|
| 1458-1464 |
|
Enea Silvio
Piccolomini Pope Pius II.
|
| 1459 |
|
Establishment of
the Platonic Academy in Florence under
Cosimo de Medici
|
| 1459 |
|
Establishment of
the University of Basel
|
| around 1460 |
|
Johannes Müller
Regiomontanus develops the decimal
fraction calculation
|
| 1462 |
|
Mainz loses its
status as a free city and becomes an
archiepiscopal town
|
| 1466 |
|
First German bible
is printed in Strasbourg by Johannes
Mentelin
|
| 1467 |
|
Arnold Pannartz and
Konrad Sweynheym establish in Subiaco the
first printing shop in Italy
|
| 1468 |
|
Johannes Gutenberg
dies on February 3 in Mainz
|
| 1469 |
|
Erasmus of
Rotterdam and Macchiavelli are born
|
| 1471 |
|
Portuguese cross
the equator for the first time
|
| 1473 |
|
Start of the
construction of the Sixtine Chapel in
Rome.
The Augsburg banking house of Fugger
establishes business relations with the
Habsburg family
|
| 1474 |
|
Botticelli: The
Spring
Michelangelo is born
|
| 1477 |
|
Establishment of
the University of Mainz by archbishop
Diether of Isenburg.
Death of Karl the Brave of Burgundy
causes long-lasting struggle surrounding
the Burgundy inheritance between France
and the house of Habsburg
|
| 1478 |
|
Thomas Morus is
born
|
| 1481 |
|
Introduction of the
inquisition in Spain by Thomas de
Torquemada
|
| 1483 |
|
Birth of Martin
Luther
Birth of Raffael
|
| 1491 |
|
Ignatius of
Loyolayis born
|
| 1492 |
|
Columbus reaches
America.
First globe constructed by Martin Behaim
in Nuremberg.
Conquest of Granada ends the Spanish
Reconquista; Jews are driven out of Spain
Leonardo da Vinci draws a flight machine
|
| 1493 |
|
World chronicle by
Hartmann Schedel is published by Anton
Koberger in Nuremberg
Friedrich III. dies; Maximilian I. of
Habsburg ("The last knight"),
German king since 1486, becomes his
successor
Division of the new world between Spain
and Portugal by a judgement call of Pope
Alexander VI
|
| 1494 |
|
Fall of the Medici
in Florence.
Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant.
First occurrence of Syphilis in Europe
|
| 1495 |
|
Imperial parliament
of Worms, introduction of a general tax
("Gemeiner Pfennig")
|
| 1497 |
|
Leonardo da Vinci:
The last supper
|
| 1497/98 |
|
Giovanni Caboto
reaches North America under British
orders
|
| 1498 |
|
Vasco da Gama sails
around the Cape of Good Hope and reaches
India by sea
Wood carvings cycle Apocalypse by
Albrecht Dürer
Execution of Savonarola
|
| 1499 |
|
Swiss confederates
separate from the German Empire
The Fuggers control the European copper
market, their wealth has multiplied ten
score in 20 years.
|
| 1500 |
|
Birth of Karl the
Fifth
The Portuguese sailor Pedro Caba reaches
Brazil.
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