The Fall of Constantinople refers to the capture of the Byzantine Empire's capital by the Ottoman Empire on Tuesday, May 29, 1453 . The event marked the end of the political independence...
The Battle of Wakefield took place at Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, on 30 December 1460, and was one of the major actions of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing factions were a royal army...
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was the century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. Spanish and Portuguese explorations led to discovery of the Americas and the sea...
An incunabulum is a book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe. The origin of the word is the Latin incunabula for "swaddling clothes...
The fourth Chinese domination was a period of the history of Vietnam, from 1407 to 1427, upon which, the country was ruled by the Ming Dynasty administration. Upon completing total control...
Archaeological exploration of the Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan began in Afghanistan in earnest after World War II and proceeded until the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan disrupted it in...
The Battle of Bosworth or Bosworth Field was Lancastrian Henry Tudor's defeat of Yorkist Richard III, ending the Plantagenet dynasty to begin a new Tudor dynasty. Historically, the...
The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the rival houses of Lancaster and York, for the throne of England. They are generally accepted to have been...
The Battle of Grunwald took place on 15 July 1410 with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led by the Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło, ranged against...
The Peace of Thorn was, like the Second Peace of Thorn , a peace treaty between allied Poland and Lithuania fom one side, and the Teutonic Order from the other. Signed on 1 February...
The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), in northern...
The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1420 to circa 1434. The Hussite Wars were...