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