1415

This article is about the year 1415.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1380s  1390s  1400s  – 1410s –  1420s  1430s  1440s
Years:	1412 1413 1414 – 1415 – 1416 1417 1418

1415 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1415 in poetry

1415 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1415 MCDXV
Ab urbe condita	2168
Armenian calendar	864 ԹՎ ՊԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	6165
Bengali calendar	822
Berber calendar	2365
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 5 – 3 Hen. 5
Buddhist calendar	1959
Burmese calendar	777
Byzantine calendar	6923–6924
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4111 or 4051     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4112 or 4052
Coptic calendar	1131–1132
Discordian calendar	2581
Ethiopian calendar	1407–1408
Hebrew calendar	5175–5176
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1471–1472
- Shaka Samvat	1337–1338
- Kali Yuga	4516–4517
Holocene calendar	11415
Igbo calendar	415–416
Iranian calendar	793–794
Islamic calendar	817–818
Japanese calendar	Ōei 22 (応永２２年)
Julian calendar	1415 MCDXV
Korean calendar	3748
Minguo calendar	497 before ROC 民前497年
Thai solar calendar	1957–1958

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

Events

January–December

• April 30 – Frederick I becomes Elector of Brandenburg.
• June 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 and then abdicates. He is the last pope to resign until Pope Benedict XVI in 2013.
• 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.

Date unknown

• 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. With this action, the food supply crisis is solved by the end of the year.
• The Orthodox Church in the lands of the tsardom of Muskovy (actual Russia) separates from the one in Ukraine and Belarus, both claiming to be the true Kiev patriarchate.

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)

Deaths

• April 15 – Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist
• July 6 – Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake) (b. 1369)
• July 19 – Philippa of Lancaster, queen of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
• August 5
  • Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (executed)
  • Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (executed)
  • Thomas Grey (executed)
• September 17 – Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (killed in battle) (b. 1367)
• October 13 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)
• October 25 – Killed in 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)
  • Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (b. 1394)
  • Frederick of Lorraine (b. 1371)
  • Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)
  • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (b. 1373)
  • Dafydd Gam, Welsh nobleman (b. c. 1380)