Portuguese capture Ceuta
European overseas empires begin with this assault
On 21 August 1415 the fleet of John I took the Moroccan port of Ceuta in a single day. Among the attackers was Prince Henry, later called the Navigator, and from here the Portuguese voyages down the African coast began.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1397 Kalmar Union — 18 years earlier
- 1414–1418 Council of Constance — 1 year earlier
- 1415 Battle of Agincourt — same year
- 1419–1434 Hussite Wars — 4 years later
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 14 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 5 years earlier
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 4 years earlier
- 1425–1453 Muscovite War of Succession — 10 years later
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 13 years earlier
Asia
- 1398 Timur sacks Delhi — 17 years earlier
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 15 years earlier
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — 10 years earlier
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 9 years later
- c. 1431 Fall of Angkor — 16 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 15)
- Joan of Arc (aged 3)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 55)
- Sigismund (aged 47)
- Zheng He (aged 44)
- Henry V (aged 29)
- Sejong the Great (aged 18)
- Charles VII (aged 12)
- Murad II (aged 11)
- Wenceslaus (aged 54)