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Year '1415' was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1415

Births

Deaths

Events of 1415

★ April 30 - Frederick I becomes Elector of Brandenburg.

★ March 14 - Jan Hus travels to the Council of Constance to propose reforms for the church

★ May 5 - the Council of Constance condemns the writings of John Wycliffe and asks Jan Hus to recant in public his heresy; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated then sentenced to be burned at the stake

★ July 4 - Pope Gregory XII officially closes the Council of Constance

★ July 6 - Jan Hus burned at the stake in Konstanz

★ July 31 - Henry V of England is informed of the Southampton Plot against him; he has the leaders arrested and executed before invading France

★ August 14 - Portugal conquers the city of Ceuta from the Moors, initiating the Portuguese Empire and European expansion and colonial era

★ October 25 - Battle of Agincourt - Archers of Henry V of England are instrumental in defeating a massed army of French knights

★ Avignon Pope Benedict XIII orders all Talmuds to be delivered to diocese and held until further notice

★ The Swiss Confederation takes the territory of Aargau from the house of Habsburg.

Births

★ March 10 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)

★ May 3 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (died 1495)

★ September 21 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1493)

★ December 1 - Jan Długosz, Polish historian (died 1480)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Benedetto Accolti, Italian jurist and historian (died 1466)

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★ John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (died 1461)

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★ Rennyo, Japanese Buddhist leader (died 1499)

Deaths

★ April 15 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist

★ July 6 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake) (born 1369)

★ July 19 - Philippa of Lancaster, queen of John I of Portugal (plague) (born 1359)

★ August 5

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★ Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (executed)

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★ Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (executed)

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★ Thomas Grey (executed)

★ August or September - Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (killed in battle) (born 1367)

★ October 13 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (born 1381)

★ October 25 - Killed at the Battle of Agincourt:

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★ John I of Alençon (b. 1385)

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★ Charles d'Albret, Count of Dreux and Constable of France

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★ Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)

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★ Philip of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Rethel (b. 1389)

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★ Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (born 1394)

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★ Frederick of Lorraine (born 1371)

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★ Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)

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★ Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (born 1373)

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★ Dafydd Gam, Welsh nobleman (born c. 1380)

★ December 18 - Louis, Duke of Guyenne, Dauphin of France