15th century

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

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

• 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