History
 

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World

General

Population: 388 Million*
  • Entertainment: Donatello follows Roman models in sculpting realistic St. Mark and St. George (Italy)
  • Religion: End of antipope John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa) as he is deposed – Pope Benedict XIII (French) refuses to resign and is deposed
    Death or abdication of Pope Gregory XII at Rome
    Officially no pope to 1417
    Posthumous conviction of Wycliffe as heretic – corpse exhumed burned and scattered – council anathematizes him
  • Deaths: Reformer John Hus (Burned heretic), Pope Gregory XII

Africa

  • Prince Henry the Navigator helps capture North African port of Ceuta from Moors of Morocco

Europe

  • Bohemia: "Lollard" John Hus, Bohemian religious reformer burned at the stake
  • England: Henry V defeats French at Agincourt and takes Harfleur (Hundred Years War)
    Plot thwarted to replace Henry with Edward Mortimer, cousin Earl of March
  • France: England takes Paris in third phase of Hundred Years' War
  • German States: House of Hohenzollern comes to power in Prussia/Brandenburg (Lutherans) with help of Holy Roman Empire
  • Ireland: End of Irish revolt



 
 
 
 
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