(14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries)
Events
- Renaissance affects philosophy, science and art.
- The New Monarchs come to power in France, England, and Spain.
- Rise of Modern English language from Middle English.
- Lollardy is suppressed in England; John Badby is the first person burnt at the stake for heresy in England.
- Great Schism of the Catholic Church is ended in 1417.
- Jeanne d'Arc in 1429 leads French forces to a victory against England in a battle of the Hundred Years' War.
- Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
- John Huss is burned at the stake
- Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince.
- The Spanish Inquisition is established.
- Muslims and Jews are expelled from southern Spain after almost 800 years of Moslem rule, in 1492.
- The Anasazi Native American civilization mysteriously disappears
- Christopher Columbus reaches Caribbean islands in 1492 and South America in 1498.
- Vasco da Gama completes sea voyage to India, in 1498.
- Zheng He's fleet sails from China to South-East Asia, India, East Africa and Egypt.
- Filippo Brunelleschi invents one-point perspective, leads innovation in Italian architecture
- Leonardo da Vinci, inventor and painter
- Henry VII, English King founds the Tudor dynasty
- Zheng He, Chinese eunuch admiral and explorer
- Printing technology refined by Johann Gutenberg.