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Year 1415 ( MCDXV ) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .

Events [ edit ]

January–December [ edit ]

• April 30 – Frederick I becomes Elector of Brandenburg .
• June 5 – The Council of Constance condemns the writings of John Wycliffe and asks Jan Hus to recant in public his heresy ; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated, then sentenced to be burned at the stake.
• July 4 – Pope Gregory XII officially opens the Council of Constance , and then abdicates. He is the last pope to resign, until Pope Benedict XVI in 2013 .
• July 6 – Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Konstanz .
• July 31 – Henry V of England is informed of the Southampton Plot against him; he has the leaders arrested and executed, before invading France .
• August 21 – Conquest of Ceuta : Portugal conquers the city of Ceuta from the Moors , initiating the Portuguese Empire , and European expansion and colonialism .
• October 25 – Battle of Agincourt : Archers of Henry V of England are instrumental in defeating a massed army of French knights. ^[1]

Date unknown [ edit ]

• Avignon Pope Benedict XIII orders all Talmuds to be delivered to the diocese , and held until further notice.
• The Swiss Confederation takes the territory of Aargau from the house of Habsburg .
• The Grand Canal of China is reinstated by this year after it had fallen out of use; restoration began in 1411 , and was a response by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to improve the grain shipment system of tribute traveling from south to north, towards his new capital at Beijing . With this action, the food supply crisis is solved by the end of the year.

Births [ edit ]

• March 10 – Vasily II of Moscow , Grand Prince (d. 1462 )
• March 14 – Wilhelm II, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1444 )
• May 3 – Cecily Neville , English duchess, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495 )
• September 12 – John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk , English magnate (d. 1461 ) ^[2]
• September 16 – Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny , English baroness (d. 1448 )
• September 21 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493 )
• October 18 – Heinrich von Dissen , German theologian (d. 1484 )
• November 26 – Han Myung-hoi , Korean politician (d. 1487 )
• December 1 – Jan Długosz , Polish historian (d. 1480 )
• date unknown
  • Benedetto Accolti , Italian jurist and historian (d. 1464 )
  • Rennyo , Japanese Buddhist leader (d. 1499 )
  • Chakkaphat Phaen Phaeo , Lan Xang king (d. 1481 )

Deaths [ edit ]

• April 15 – Manuel Chrysoloras , Greek humanist
• July 6 – Jan Hus , Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake) (b. 1369 )
• July 19 – Philippa of Lancaster , queen of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359 )
• August 2 – Thomas Grey , conspirator against King Henry V (executed) (b. 1384 )
• August 5
  • Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (executed) (b. 1375 )
  • Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (executed) (b. 1370 )
• September 17 – Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (killed in battle) (b. 1367 )
• October 13 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel , English military leader (b. 1381 )
• October 25 (killed in Battle of Agincourt)
  • John I of Alencon (b. 1385 )
  • Charles d'Albret , Count of Dreux and Constable of France
  • Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384 )
  • Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (b. 1394 )
  • Frederick of Lorraine, Count of Vaudemont (b. 1371 )
  • Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389 )
  • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (b. 1373 )
  • Dafydd Gam , Welsh nobleman (b. c. 1380 ) ^[3]

References [ edit ]