15th century
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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500.
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Trends
- Quattrocento
- Gothic art
- End of the Middle Ages
- Gilles de Rais
- rediscovery of Nero's Golden house
- early Renaissance
- Fashion in 15th century Europe
- Renaissance affects philosophy, science and art.
- Age of Discovery begins.
- Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press in Europe (c. 1455).
- Linear perspective drawing perfected by Filippo Brunelleschi 1410-1415
- Europe Claims America October 12 1492, Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The Italian explorer believes he has reached East Asia.
Culture
- Facetiae by Poggio
- Venus, c. 1485 - Botticelli
- Satyr mourning over a nymph (c. 1495) - Piero di Cosimo
- The Bonfire of the Vanities
- The use of tobacco is introduced into Europe by Columbus and his crew returning from America.
- 1431 - First German peasant revolt at Worms, Germany
- The Malleus Maleficarum (1486) Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger
- Vlad the Impaler
- Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Tepes in Romanian or Vlad the Impaler)
- 1485 The first edition Danse Macabre is published in Paris by Guyot Marchant
Births
- François Villon
- Hans Holbein
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Quentin Matsys
- Albrecht Dürer
- Matthias Grünewald
- Lucas Cranach
- Hans Baldung Grien
- Pietro Aretino
- François Rabelais
- Jean Fouquet, French painter.
- Gilles de Rais
- Michael Pacher
- Joan of Arc, national heroine of France (1412 - 1431).
- François Villon, French poet (c. 1431 - 1474).
- Leonardo da Vinci, inventor and painter (1452 - 1519).
Deaths
- Jan Hus, Bohemian religious thinker and reformer (c. 1369 - 1415).
- Johannes Gutenberg, European inventor of printing with movable type (c.1398 - 1468)
- Joan of Arc, national heroine of France (1412 - 1431).
- François Villon, French poet (c. 1431 - 1474).
Events
- 1429: Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans and turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1481: Spanish Inquisition begins.
- 1492: Jews expelled from Spain.
- 1492: Christopher Columbus founds Spain's first New World colony on Hispaniola.
- 1494: Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas and agree to divide the World outside of Europe between themselves.
- 1494-1559: The Italian Wars lead to the downfall of the Italian city-states.
- 1497-1499: Vasco da Gama's first voyage from Europe to India and back.
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