{"id":100,"date":"2010-02-04T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/history\/?p=100"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:37:07","slug":"15thcentury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/history\/15thcentury\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteenth Century History"},"content":{"rendered":"

1400<\/strong> First golf balls made. The spinet, a small piano, invented.<\/p>\n

1410<\/strong> The earliest known English carol<\/a> written by Ritson in 1410.<\/p>\n

1412<\/strong> Joan of Arc<\/a> born in France.<\/p>\n

1415<\/strong> Execution of Jan Hus, Czech religious reformer, who lectured on the philosophy of Aristotle and John Wycliffe and believed that there was “but little of God’s truth at the papal court.” He denounced the sale of indulgences, the same issue that would move Martin Luther to criticize the church in 1517. <\/p>\n

1420<\/strong> Brunelleschi begins work on the duomo in Florence.<\/p>\n

1421<\/strong> Hoisting gear invented in Florence.<\/p>\n

1428<\/strong> Joan of Arc leads French against English.<\/p>\n

1429<\/strong> Henry VI becomes King of England – he is younger than a year old.<\/p>\n

1430<\/strong> Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians and turned over to the English.<\/p>\n

1431<\/strong> Joan of Arc burned at the stake after ecclesiastical trial.<\/p>\n

1450<\/strong> Johannes Gutenberg<\/a> prints the Bible.<\/p>\n

1452<\/strong> Leonardo da Vinci<\/a> born in Vinci, near Florence.<\/p>\n

1453<\/strong> Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks, ending the Byzantine empire.<\/p>\n

1455<\/strong> Wars of the Roses plunges England into a series of internal wars that were to last for 30 years: conflicting claims to the throne of England by the houses of York (insignia represented by a white rose) and Lancaster (red rose).<\/p>\n

1462<\/strong> Ivan the Great becomes first czar of Russia – he would rule until 1505.<\/p>\n

1473<\/strong> Copernicus born in Poland.<\/p>\n

1475<\/strong> Michelangelo<\/a> Buonarroti born.<\/p>\n

1478<\/strong> The Spanish Inquisition initiated by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile to flush out the secret Jews from among the Christian population. After negotiations with the Pope, the first inquisitorial tribunal opened in Seville in 1481, leading to a national system of inquisitorial courts under an Inquisitor-General, Thomas Torquemada.<\/p>\n

1470<\/strong> Peter Schoeffer publishes a bookseller’s advertisement. (It is thought to be to the first printed poster on paper in Europe.)<\/p>\n

1480<\/strong> Founding of independent Russia by Ivan Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan III or Ivan the Great, who became the first czar in 1462.<\/p>\n

1485<\/strong> Leonardo da Vinci, a pupil of Verrocchio, makes detailed sketches of parachutes.<\/p>\n

1486<\/strong> The first known copyright granted in Venice.<\/p>\n

1487<\/strong> Bell chimes invented.<\/p>\n

1488<\/strong> Bartolomeu Dias<\/a> sails around Africa and names the Cape of Good Hope.<\/p>\n

1492<\/strong> Christopher Columbus leaves Spain in search of the Indies. Jews expelled from Spain. The monetary unit, the peso, is put in circulation.<\/p>\n

1493<\/strong> Christopher Columbus leaves on his second voyage.<\/p>\n

1494<\/strong> Scots make whiskey.<\/p>\n

1495<\/strong> Leonardo da Vinci designs a pyramid-shaped parachute, and begins painting The Last Supper.<\/p>\n

1497<\/strong> Cabot sails from England to North America. Vasco da Gama<\/a> sails around Africa to discover sea route to India in the next year. Michelangelo completes Bacchus sculpture. Jews expelled from Portugal.<\/p>\n

1498<\/strong> Christopher Columbus<\/a> leaves on his third journey. First toothbrush made from hog bristles.<\/p>\n

1499<\/strong> Anne of Brittany begins custom of wearing a white wedding dress.<\/p>\n

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