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WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 15TH CENTURY ?
Renaissance affects philosophy, science and art.
The New Monarchs come to power in France, England, Portugal and Spain.
Rise of Modern English language from Middle English.
Great Schism of the Catholic Church is ended in 1417.
Foundation and rise of the Aztec empire in Mexico.
Jeanne d'Arc in 1429 leads French forces to a victory against England in a battle of the Hundred Years' War.
Brazil is discovered by Pedro Alvares Cabral, thus creating the United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil.
Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire (in 1453), and the Empire conquers several more countries in the Balkans.
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince.
The Spanish Inquisition is established.
Muslims and Jews are expelled from southern Spain after almost 800 years of Muslim rule, in 1492.
The Ancient Pueblo Peoples Native American civilization mysteriously disappears.
Christopher Columbus reaches Caribbean islands in 1492 and South America in 1498, initiating the Spanish Empire.
Portuguese Vasco da Gama completes sea voyage to India, in 1498.
Zheng He's fleet sails from China to South-East Asia, India, East Africa and Egypt.
Printing technology invented by Gutenberg.
15TH CENTURY ARTISTS
Fra Angelico (1395 - 1455)
Giovanni Bellini (1430 - 1516)
Hieronymus Bosch (1453 - 1516)
Alessandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510)
Carlo Crivelli (1435 - 1495)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528)
Jan van Eyck (1385 - 1441)
Jean Fouquet (1420 - 1481)
Quentin Massys (1466 - 1530)
Hans Memling (1439 - 1494)
Pietro Perugino (1446 - 1524)
Luca Signorelli (1445 - 1523)
Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475)
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