CChhrroonnoollooggyy 5 511991389 Turks defeat Serbs
at Kosovo
1396 Turks complete
conquest of Bulgaria
1397 Union of Kalmar
unites Norway, Sweden,
and Denmark
1410 Ladislas II of
Poland defeats Teutonic
Knights
1415 Portuguese capture
Ceuta
1419 Defenestration of
Prague
1420 Treaty of Troyes
makes Henry V heir to
French throne
1423 Council of Pavia
1429 Siege of Orleans
lifted
1431 Joan of Arc burned
1432 Portuguese discover
Azores
1401 First Lollard martyr1409 Council of Pisa1414 Council of
Constance convened
1415 Martyrdom of Huss
1417 Election of Martin V
as pope ends Great
Schism
1419 Outbreak of
Hussite Wars1420 Four Articles of
Prague1431 Council of Basle;
Eugenius IV pope1433 Compacts of
Prague1434 Revolt in Rome
forces pope to flee to
Florence; Taborites
(militant Hussites)1393 Niccolò III d’Este
created first marquis of
Ferrara
1395 Giangaleazzo
Visconti created first
duke of Milan1399 Henry IV king of
England (→1413)1400 Robert of Bavaria
becomes emperor
(→1410)1410 Sigismund of
Luxembourg becomes
emperor (→1437)
1413 Henry V king of
England (→1422)
1414 Joanna II queen of
Naples (→1435)1419 Philip the Good
duke of Burgundy
(→1467)1422 Henry VI king of
England (→1461)
1429 Charles VII of
France crowned1433 Sigismund crowned
emperor; Gianfrancesco I
Gonzaga first marquis of
Mantua
1434 Cosimo de’ Medici
returns to Florence1401 Ghiberti wins
competition to execute
bronze doors for
Florentine baptistery1429 Brunelleschi’s Pazzi
chapel, Florence, begun1432 Van Eyck brothers’
Adoration of the Lamb
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