Zara Yaqob becomes emperor of Ethiopia
Church reformer and conqueror of Adal
Zara Yaqob (1434–1468) reformed the church, upheld the Sabbath alongside Sunday and defeated the sultan of Adal in 1445. He founded the capital Debre Berhan and sent envoys to the Council of Florence.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1415 Battle of Agincourt — 19 years earlier
- 1419–1434 Hussite Wars — 15 years earlier
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 5 years earlier
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 16 years later
- 1453 Battle of Castillon — 19 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 24 years earlier
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 23 years earlier
- 1425–1453 Muscovite War of Succession — 9 years earlier
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 19 years later
Asia
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 10 years earlier
- c. 1431 Fall of Angkor — 3 years earlier
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 12 years later
- 1449 Tumu Crisis — 15 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 4 years later
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 16 years later
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 16 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 11 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 34)
- Mehmed II (aged 2)
- Sigismund (aged 66)
- Sejong the Great (aged 37)
- Charles VII (aged 31)
- Murad II (aged 30)
- Pachacuti (aged 16)
- Louis XI (aged 11)
- Ulugh Beg (aged 40)
- Ashikaga Yoshinori (aged 40)