1415

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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

January–December

• Elector of Brandenburg
  .
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• Avignon Pope Benedict XIII orders all Talmuds to be delivered to the diocese
  , and held until further notice.
• The
  Habsburg
  .
• 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.

• March 10 – Vasily II of Moscow, Grand Prince (d. 1462)
• Wilhelm II, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1444
  )
• Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495
  )
• September 12 – John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English magnate (d. 1461)^[2]
• 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)
• 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

• 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)
• 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)
• Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381
  )
• October 25 (killed in Battle of Agincourt)
  • John I of Alençon (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 Vaudémont (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]

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