History
1420
General
Population: 392 Million*
Africa
- Portuguese sailors explore west coast of Africa
- Songhai people in Gao region of West Africa begin raids in Mali empire
- Chinese ships reach East Africa
Asia
- General: Europeans navigate into Indian ocean by sea
- China: Ming capital moves to Beijing
Erection of Great Temple of the Dragon in Peking
Europe
- General: Treaty of Troyes – Henry V recognized by Charles VI as heir apparent to the French throne – marries Catherine of France and enters Paris - near end of Hundred Years' War
Crusade proclaimed against the Hussite heretics in Bohemia
- Bohemia: Hussites defeat Sigismund at Bysehrad
- Italian States: Brunelleschi creates cupola (dome) of Florence Cathedral