Voynich manuscript
A 15th-century book that no one has been able to read
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Radiocarbon dating puts its vellum at 1404–1438. It is written in an unknown script and full of strange plants and bathing women; neither wartime codebreakers nor modern scholars have deciphered it.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 10 years earlier
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 9 years earlier
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 18 years earlier
Asia
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 20 years earlier
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — 15 years earlier
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 4 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 18 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 20)
- Joan of Arc (aged 8)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 60)
- Sigismund (aged 52)
- Zheng He (aged 49)
- Henry V (aged 34)
- Sejong the Great (aged 23)
- Charles VII (aged 17)
- Murad II (aged 16)
- Pachacuti (aged 2)