15th century

Events

• Renaissance affects philosophy, science and art.
• Rise of Modern English language from Middle English.
• Lollardy is suppressed in England; John Badby is the first person burned at the stake for heresy in England.
• Great Schism of the Catholic Church is ended in 1417.
• 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.
• John Huss is burned at the stake
• Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince.
• The Spanish Inquisition is established.
• Muslims and Jews are expelled from southern Spain after almost 800 years of Moslem rule, in 1492.
• Christopher Columbus reaches Caribbean islands in 1492 and South America in 1498.
• Vasco da Gama completes sea voyage to India, in 1498.
• The Wars of the Roses rage 1455-1485

Significant people

• Filippo Brunelleschi invents one-point perspective, leads innovation in Italian architecture
• Leonardo da Vinci, inventor and painter
• Henry VII, English King founds the Tudor dynasty

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

• Printing technology refined by Johann Gutenberg.

Garb Links

• Pictures of 15th century Female Dress including burgundian - http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/15th/index.html
• The golden crown of Queen Margaret - http://www.virtue.to/articles/margaret.html
• Some Clothing of the Middle Ages - http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html

Renaissance Dance Links

• 15th century Italian Dance: http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/sections/15th_c_italian_dance.html
• 15th century Burgundian Basse Danse: http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/sections/burgundian_basse_danse.html

See also

• 14th Century
• 16th Century
• Period
• Wikipedia:15th_Century

If you're interested in recreating the later part of the 15th century then you may want to talk to some of the folks in the Company of St Sebastian.