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15th Century |
| Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus publishes Adagia in Paris. | 1500 | |
| 1499 | Francisco Jime'nez forces mass conversion of Moors. | |
| 1495 | Jews expelled
from Portugal. Christopher Columbus taxes the natives of Hispaniola. |
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| Giovanni Pico
della Mirandola writes
The Dignity of Men. Sebastian Brant publishes Das Narrenschiff. Hieronymus Bosch creates |
1494 | |
| Columbus re-introduces the horse to the Western Hemisphere. | 1493 | |
| October 12 Christopher Columbus lands on North American soil. | 1492 | |
| Beginning of ballet in Italian courts. | 1490 | |
| 1489 | Inquisitors Kramer and Sprenger publish Malleus Maleficarum (the hammer of female evildoers), a handbook for witch hunting used to torture and kill midwives and the insane. | |
| 1487 | Pope Innocent
VIII names Torquemada grand inquisitor. Henry VII of England removes the right of the accused to know the names of their accusers. |
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| 1484 | Pope Innocent
VIII officially denounces Pagan practices and issues a Bull against witchcraft. |
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| 1483 | Tomas de Torquemada leads Spanish Inquisition. | |
| 1478 | Isabella of Castile begins Inquisition against converted Jews and eventually all heretics. | |
| 1477 | Edward IV of England bans the game of cricket. | |
| Kiva Han, the world's first coffee house opens in Constantinople. | 1475 | |
| Japanese and Chinese art cross-pollinate as the Chinese-Japanese painter, Sesshu, trains in Japan and China. | 1467 | |
| First printed music appears. | 1465 | |
| Johann Gutenberg completes printing of the Bible. | 1456 | |
| 1450 | Pope Nicholas V authorizes subjugation of pagans by Portugese. | |
| Koreans develop a 28-letter alphabet. | 1446 | |
| Leon Battista Alberti formulates aesthetics of Renaissance painting. | 1436 | |
| 1434 | African slaves brought to Portugal. | |
| 1431 | May 30 Jeanne d'Arc burned at the stake. | |
| May Jeanne d'Arc liberates Orléans. | 1429 | |
| Japanese farmers and workers revolt. | 1428 | |
| 1422 | Forces attacking Karlstein, Bohemia, launch decaying cadavers over the castle walls. An early example of biowarfare. | |
| Henry the Navigator of Portugal and colleagues pioneer the science of navigation. | 1421 | |
| Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio published in Venice. | 1419 | |
| 1915 | July 6 Jan Hus burned at the stake for heresy. | |
| Philipo Brunelleschi publishes Rules of Perspective. | 1412 | |
| 1911 | Pope John XXIII excommunicates Jan Hus. | |
| New Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography revives the idea of a round world. | 1410 | |
| Jon Hus begins campaign against Church corruption. | 1409 |
Pope Alexander V publicly burns 200 of John Wycliffe's writings. |
| 1408 | ||
| Yung Lo orders China's first sea expedition. | 1405 | |
| Venice imposes first quarantine is response to Black Death. | 1402 | |
| 1401 | England introduces de Heretico Comburendo, giving the Church power over heresy. | |
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