Year 1415 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1415

• April 30 - Frederick I becomes Elector of Brandenburg.
• 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 opens the Council of Constance.
• July 6 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Konstanz.
• July 31 - Henry V of England is informed of the Southampton Plot against him; he has the leaders arrested and executed before invading France.
• August 14 - Portugal conquers the city of Ceuta from the Moors, initiating the Portuguese Empire and European expansion and colonialism.
• October 25 - Battle of Agincourt: Archers of Henry V of England are instrumental in defeating a massed army of French knights.
• Avignon Pope Benedict XIII orders all Talmuds to be delivered to the diocese and held until further notice.
• The Swiss Confederation takes the territory of Aargau from the house of Habsburg.
• The Grand Canal of China is reinstated by this year after it had fallen out of use; restoration began in 1411, and was a response by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to improve the grain shipment system of tribute traveling from south to north towards his new capital at Beijing. Hence, the problem with lack of food supply is sufficed by this year.
• The Orthodox Church in the lands of the tsardom of Muskovy (actual Russia) separates from the one in Ukraine and Byelorussia, both claiming to be the true Kiev patriarchate.

[edit] Births

• March 10 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
• May 3 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
• September 21 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
• December 1 - Jan Długosz, Polish historian (d. 1480)
• date unknown
  • Benedetto Accolti, Italian jurist and historian (d. 1466)
  • John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (d. 1461)
  • Rennyo, Japanese Buddhist leader (d. 1499)

[edit] 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)
  • Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (executed)
  • Thomas Grey (executed)
• August or 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)
  • Dafydd Gam, Welsh nobleman (born c. 1380)
• December 18 - Louis, Duke of Guyenne, Dauphin of France