The 15th Century A.D. - History Summary
	Summary of Events:
	Year Event 1400 Death of Geoffrey Chaucer 1403 Henry IV defeats Percys at Shrewsbury 1411 Foundation fo the Guildhall in London 1415 Defeat of French by Henry IV at Agincourt 1417 End of the Great Schism 1427 Defeat of Hussites in Bohemia 1431 Joan of Arc burned at Rouen c. 1445 Johannes Gutenberg introduces printing in Europe 1450 Jack Cade's rebellion in England 1453 End of Hundred Years War 1455 Wars of the Roses begin (to 1485) 1460 Death of Henry the Navigator 1471 First European observatory at Nürnburg 1475 William Caxton prints first book in English 1479 Union of Aragon and Castile under Ferdinand and Isabella 1485 Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth 1486 Portuguese reach Angola 1487 Bartolomeu Diaz sails around Cape of Storms (Good Hope) 1492 Christopher Columbus reaches America 1492 Jews expelled from Spain 1492 Revolt of Perkin Warbeck in England (to 1499) 1497 John Cabot reaches Newfoundland 1498 Christopher Columbus reaches South America 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India 1499 Amerigo Vespucci reaches Venezuela
	Source: D. Crystal, The Cambridge Factfinder (Cambridge University Press, 1998)