1415

Events

• Friedrich I Hohenzollern (b. 1372; d. 20 Sep 1440) becomes Burgrave of Nuremberg
• March 14 - Jan Hus travels to the Council of Constance to propose reforms for the church
• May 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 closes the Council of Constance
• July 6 - Jan Hus burned at the stake in Constance
• August 14 - Portugal conquers the city of Ceuta from the Moors (it marks the creation of the Portuguese Empire)
• October 25 - Battle of Agincourt - English Longbowmen of Henry V of England defeat massed army of French knights
• Antipope Benedict XIII orders all Talmuds to be delivered to diocese and held until further notice
• The Swiss Confederation takes the territory of Aargau from the house of Habsburg.

Births

• March 10 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
• May 3 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (died 1495)
• September 21 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1493)
• Benedetto Accolti, Italian jurist and historian (died 1466)
• Jan Dlugosz, Polish historian (died 1480)
• John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (died 1461)
• Rennyo, Japanese Buddhist leader (died 1499)
• Erik Axelsson Tott, regent of Sweden (died 1481)

Deaths

• April 15 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist
• July 6 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake) (born 1369)
• July 19 - Philippa of Lancaster, queen of John I of Portugal (plague) (born 1359)
• August 5 - Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (executed)
• August 5 - Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (executed)
• August-September - Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (killed in battle) (born 1367)
• October 13 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (born 1381)
• October 25 - Killed at the 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)
  • Philip of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Rethel (b. 1389)
  • Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (born 1394)
  • Frederick of Lorraine (born 1371)
  • Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)
  • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (born 1373)