Fall of Angkor
The Siamese take the Khmer capital, ending Angkor
Ayutthaya's army took Angkor after a long siege, and the Khmer kings moved their capital south towards Phnom Penh. The city of temples was abandoned to the jungle, and Cambodia long remained a weak neighbour of Siam and Vietnam.
Wikipedia (English) · 15th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1414–1418 Council of Constance — 17 years earlier
- 1415 Battle of Agincourt — 16 years earlier
- 1419–1434 Hussite Wars — 12 years earlier
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 2 years earlier
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 19 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 21 years earlier
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 20 years earlier
- 1425–1453 Muscovite War of Succession — 6 years earlier
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 22 years later
Africa
- 1415 Portuguese capture Ceuta — 16 years earlier
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 7 years later
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 19 years later
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 19 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 14 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 31)
- Joan of Arc (aged 19)
- Sigismund (aged 63)
- Zheng He (aged 60)
- Sejong the Great (aged 34)
- Charles VII (aged 28)
- Murad II (aged 27)
- Pachacuti (aged 13)
- Louis XI (aged 8)
- Ulugh Beg (aged 37)