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's 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 is burned at the stake in Konstanz.
• July 31 - Henry V of England is informed of the Southampton Plot against him; he's 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.
• Separation of the esatern church hierarchy, splitting of the orthodox church in the lands of the tsardom of Muskovy (actual Russia) from the one in Ukraine and Bielorussia. Both claiming to be the true Kiev patriarchat.

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