History
1430
General
Population: 400 Million*
- Entertainment: Height of Spanish author Perez de Guzman
- Technology: Gutenberg experiments with moveable type
- Warfare: "Mad Marjorie" the great cast-iron gun invented
Africa
- Sultans of Kilwa on E Africa begin grand building program
- Azores discovered and claimed for Portugal
Asia
- Thailand: Collpase of Khmer empire in SE Asia
Europe
- England: Modern English develops from Middle English
- France: Siege of Paris – Joan of Arc sees visions, is captured by Burgundians at Compiegne and is sent to England
- Holland: Beginning of first Dutch school of music
- Portugal: Gil Eannes of Portugal sails "over the edge of the world" along west coast of Africa