1400-1419 A.D. - Italian Renaissance

1400

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV (House of Lancaster) is king of England

Modern-day scholars estimate that between 1400-1472, there were only a few thousands maps in circulation in Europe (after print, that number rose to an estimated 56,000 between 1472-1500) (Germany, a Nation in It's Own Time, Pg. 12)

Geoffrey Chaucer finishes The Canterbury Tales

 

1401

Europeans begin exploration voyages down the western coast of Africa (The Fourth Part of the World, pg. 186)

 

1402

Paper currency is initiated in Korea

Two priests living on the island of Lanzarotewrite write a book titled The Canarian chronicling the mad attempt by two Frenchmen, Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de La Salle, to take control of the Canary Islands, by this time Europeans had been haphazardly doing recon voyages there and around other Atlantic islands for more than half a century, at least since Lancelotto Malocello’s famous voyage, a number of different charts and maps from the late fourteenth century on make it clear that by then mariners and geographers knew of the existence of the Madeira island group, to the north of the Canaries, and of the Azores, a group even farther out into the Atlantic to the northwest, Béthencourt and La Salle want in on the goods that these expeditions were bringing home—especially slaves, they set sail in May and within a few months had managed to establish a precarious hold on a few Canary islands, “they knew fifteen Europeans had sailed from Lanzarote to Bojador, and had returned with a haul of black slaves.” (The Fourth Part of the World, pg. 187)

 

1403

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

 

1404

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

 

1405

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

 

1406

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

The recently re-discovered book Geography by Claudius Ptolemy (Greek cartographer, b. 100 A.D.) is translated into Latin by Jacabo d’Angelo, the manuscript provided thousands of coordinates of cities, rivers, mountains, coastlines and known continents, this re-discovery helps begins a new era of mapmaking based on two-dimensional, area-centered, mapped conception of space, instead of the itinerary based “maps” which were basically a list of written directions (Germany, a Nation in It's Own Time, pg. 10)

 

1407

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

 

1408

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

 

1409

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

 

1410

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

 

1411

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

 

1412

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster) is king of England

Joan of Arc is born on January 6 (estimate) at Domrémy, Duchy of Bar, in the Kingdom of France

 

1413

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV Bolingbroke dies on March 20 at Westminster Abbey, aged 45, and is buried at Canterbury Cathedral, Henry V is crowned as king of England in Westminster Abbey on April 9

January 6, Joan of Arc turns one year old

 

1415

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry V (House of Lancaster) is king of England

November 23, Henry V has a victory march through London after winning the battle of Agincourt

The Lancastrian War begins (third phase of the Hundred Years’ War) 1415-1453

Prince Henry (the Navigator) of Portugal, and his father, King João (or King John I), capture the Moroccan city of Ceuta—an important port off the North African coast, Ceuta (pronounced “Soota” is located on a stretch of coastline where Africa juts up and almost touches Spain (The Fourth Part of the World, pg. 178)

 

1416

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry V (House of Lancaster) is king of England

June 5, the general congregation of the Council of Constans listens to a Portuguese ambassador tell the story of how Ceuta was won from the Moors with only a day of fighting

Construction on the Gothic nave of the cathedral in Girona, Spain, is begun (Photo: The completed Gothic nave in the cathedral, Photo Credit: Me! I took this picture in October of 2022)

 

1417

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry V (House of Lancaster) is king of England

The Hohenzollern family acquires the Margraviate of Brandenburg (prussiagate.substack.com) 

Sir Henry Barton, Mayor of London, orders that “lanterns with lights to be hung out on winter evenings between Hallowtide and Candlemasse,” (it’s the beginning of large cities being lit)

 

1418

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry V (House of Lancaster) is king of England

A Portuguese expedition reaches Porto Santo in Sahara Africa (Zarco and Teixeira were the explorers) by the sponsorship of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal (he had obtained the “port and key” to Africa by taking the city of Ceuta back in 1415)

 

1419

RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry V (House of Lancaster) is king of England