Joan of Arc relieves Orléans
A peasant girl turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War
Joan of Arc, a peasant girl convinced of her divine mission, led a French force that lifted the English siege of Orléans in nine days. The Dauphin Charles was soon crowned at Reims, marking the turning point of the Hundred Years' War.
Wikipedia (English) · 15th century
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Rublev's Trinity (1411 or 1425–1427) and Joan of Arc's relief of Orléans (1429) belong to the same generation.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 19 years earlier
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 18 years earlier
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 24 years later
Asia
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — 24 years earlier
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 17 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 9 years later
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 21 years later
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 21 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 29)
- Joan of Arc (aged 17)
- Sigismund (aged 61)
- Zheng He (aged 58)
- Sejong the Great (aged 32)
- Charles VII (aged 26)
- Murad II (aged 25)
- Pachacuti (aged 11)
- Louis XI (aged 6)
- Christine de Pizan (aged 65)