Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1442 – Enea Piccolomini, the...
Renaissance in character. The development of the printing press (using movable type) by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1440s encouraged authors to write in their...
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is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. There has been no crowned Emperor since the death of his father, Charles IV, in 1378. August 14 – Edward I becomes...
poet 15th century in literature Macronic poetry Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993...
2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1440s decade. As of the start of 1444, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead...
2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1440s decade. As of the start of 1440, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead...
writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the...
is an illustrated manuscript of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, created in Hagenau in the 1440sin the workshop of Diebold Lauber. facsimile v t e...
2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 15th century, and the 2nd year of the 1440s decade. As of the start of 1441, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead...
Permyak. Some Khanty princedoms were partially included in the Siberia Khanate from the 1440s–1570s. In the 11th century, Yugra was actually a term for numerous...
Herāt hundreds of buildings were built within roughly a century. By the 1440s, the Timurids had distinguished themselves aesthetically from previous cultural...
of the battle). The Portuguese set up their first trading post (Feitoria) in Africa, on the island of Arguin. Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias discovers...
includes traditional characteristics of Italian portraiture from the 1430s and 1440s; the coloring, for example, is particularly reminiscent of the Florentine...
forced by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to abdicate all her estates in his favour, ending Hainaut and Holland as independent counties. May 6 – Jan...
the church in Sarnen. According to contemporary accounts, around 900 men from the Habsburg army and around 100 men from the Swiss army fell in the battle...
Paolo illuminated Dante's Paradiso with 61 miniature tempera paintings in the 1440s. Sandro Botticelli made the most famous set of illustrations during the...
related seismic events that shake Catalonia in a single year. Beginning on 23 February 1427, tremors are felt in March, April, 15 May at Olot. May – Joan...
Plantagenet, Duke of York, becomes Protector for King Henry VI of England, who is in a catatonic state. April 9 – Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple...
Yorkists are defeated and, in the aftermath, King Edward IV of England is taken prisoner. August–October – Caister Castle in England is besieged by John...
English force under Thomas, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Henry V of England, in Normandy. May 26 – Mehmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded...
Renaissance, which developed in the 1430s and 1440s, was a period of experimentation, characterised by a technical and practical approach in which innovations and...
Battle of Grotnik: Władysław III's royal army defeats the Hussite movement in Poland. June 29 – Date of Venerable Macarius' Miracle of the Moose, according...
characteristic of rebel groups, such as the uprising led by Deng Maoqi in the 1440s, of criminal organizations, such as the triads or the pirates of Lin...
the Ottoman Empire (80,000 strong), led by Mesid Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu in Transylvania. June 2 – Alfonso of Aragon proclaims himself King of Naples...
capturing the capital, Constantinople. Mortars are (perhaps) used in battle for the first time in this action. The consequent closure of the traditional overland...
English from the Loire Valley. July 17 – Charles VII of France is crowned in Rheims. September – The Hafsid Saracens attempt to capture Malta, but are...
under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, in Caen. April 15 – Battle of Formigny: French troops...
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