15th century

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Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Decades:1400s,1410s,1420s,1430s,1440s,1450s,1460s,1470s,1480s,1490s

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Events:

• Rise of Modern English language from Middle English.
• Renaissance affects philosophy, science and art.
• Invention of the printing press by Johann Gutenberg.
• Jeanne d'Arc in 1429 leads French forces to a victory against England in a battle of the Hundred years war.
• Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
• Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince.
• Christopher Columbus reaches Central America in 1492.
• Muslims are expelled from southern Spain after almost 800 years of rule in 1492.

Significant persons:

• Filippo Brunelleschi invents one-point perspective, leads innovation in Italian architecture
• Leonardo da Vinci, inventor and painter