Stats: 15th Century Events

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The average score is 30 of 100

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Year	Event	Answer	% Correct
1406	Construction begins on this palace complex in Beijing	Forbidden City	86%
1420	The Ming Dynasty designates this city as its capital	Beijing	82%
1453	Ottoman conquerers capture this Byzantine city	Constantinople	82%
1479	An outbreak of this disease in Florence	Bubonic plague	77%
1455	This German goldsmith mass produces bibles with a printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	77%
1412	This Florentine family is made the official bankers of the Papacy	Medici	77%
1431	This French teenager is burned at the stake	Joan of Arc	73%
1402	Spain colonises this archipelago, marking the beginning of its empire	Canary Islands	68%
1408	Last written record of a failing Norse colony on this island	Greenland	68%
1433	Sigismund of Luxembourg is crowned the first ____ ______ Emperor in over 50 years	Holy Roman	68%
1478	This repressive religious tribunal is established in Spain	Spanish Inquisition	68%
1448	This infamous Romanian ruler first ascends to the throne	Vlad the Impaler	68%
1415	English longbowmen defeat French knights at this battle	Agincourt	64%
1457	First historical mention of this sport	Golf	64%
1438	The expansion of the Kingdom of Cusco marks the beginning of this empire	Inca	64%
1475	Birth of this Italian painter, sculptor and architect	Michelangelo	64%
1439	Publication of the Zij-i Sultani, a Muslim catalogue of these celestial bodies	Stars	59%
1483	Two young princes are imprisoned and possibly murdered in this building	Tower of London	59%
1499	This explorer returns to Portugal having charted a sea route from Europe to India	Vasco da Gama	59%
1500	Pedro Alvares Cabral claims this land for Portugal	Brazil	55%
1492	This Italian explorer arrives in the Americas	Christopher Columbus	55%
1422	This English king dies suddenly of illness while campaigning in France	Henry V	55%
1485	This crookbacked king dies on the battlefield	Richard III	55%
1474	The first codified patent system is established in this Italian city	Venice	55%
1407	China completes its conquest of this country	Vietnam	55%
1425	Popular revolt against the rulers of this Mediterranean island	Malta	50%
1470	This Lancastrian king is briefly restored to the English throne	Henry VI	45%
1498	Leonardo da Vinci completes this painting	The Last Supper	45%
1432	Portuguese colonisation of this uninhabited archipelago	Azores	41%
1471	This Yorkist king seizes the English throne	Edward IV	41%
1469	England goes to war against this league of Baltic cities	Hanseatic League	41%
1496	Foundation of this city, the oldest permanent European settlement in the New World	Santo Domingo	41%
1416	The Republic of Ragusa becomes the first state in Europe to ban this practice	Slavery	41%
1482	Diogo Cão becomes the first European to sail up this river	Congo	36%
1441	Emissaries from this Coptic empire attend an ecclesiastical council in Florence	Ethiopia	36%
1465	A revolt in this Moroccan city leads to the ousting of the sultan	Fez	36%
1401	Adherents of this sect are outlawed in England as heretics	Lollardy	36%
1418	Portuguese sailors are blown off course and discover this Atlantic island	Madeira	36%
1468	Norway pledges this archipelago to Scotland as security for a royal marriage dowry	Orkney	36%
1476	Leonardo da Vinci is acquitted of these charges	Sodomy	36%
1477	Foundation of this university, the oldest in Sweden	Uppsala University	36%
1456	European explorers discover this uninhabited archipelago	Cape Verde	32%
1486	The houses of Lancaster and York are united as Henry VII marries ________ of York	Elizabeth	32%
1487	This strange animal, presented as a gift to the Medicis, causes a stir in Florence	Giraffe	32%
1462	This influential Russian ruler becomes Grand Prince of Moscow	Ivan the Great	32%
1421	Death of this conquering Ottoman sultan	Mehmed I	32%
1413	Foundation of this university, the oldest in Scotland	University of St Andrews	32%
1466	This Renaissance artist dies aged 80 in Florence	Donatello	27%
1480	A confrontation on the Ugra River marks this duchy's independence from the Great Horde	Moscow	27%
1423	Ottoman forces ravage this Greek peninsula	Peloponnese	27%
1437	A failed Portuguese attempt to capture this North African city	Tangier	27%
1410	Installation of the Prague ___________ Clock	Astronomical	23%
1427	Decisive victory for the ________ in the Battle of Tachov in Bohemia	Hussites	23%
1497	This Italian explorer charts the coast of Newfoundland	John Cabot	23%
1429	The siege of _______ is broken by a decisive French victory	Orleans	23%
1495	Europe's first modern dry dock is built in this English port	Portsmouth	23%
1481	This Mediterranean island is devastated by a series of earthquakes	Rhodes	23%
1405	This Chinese admiral departs on his first voyage of exploration	Zheng He	23%
1473	The first complete Western publication of this 11th century Persian physician's medical encyclopedia	Avicenna	18%
1494	Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli publishes this method of book-keeping	Double entry	18%
1446	King Sejong the Great publishes this Korean (but universally applicable) alphabet	Hangul	18%
1491	The ruler of this African kingdom is baptised by Portuguese missionaries	Kongo	18%
1461	The Battle of ______, the bloodiest battle ever fought in England	Towton	18%
1434	Jan van Eyck paints the ________ Portrait	Arnolfini	14%
1414	Convention of the Council of _________ to resolve the Western Schism	Constance	14%
1464	King Edward IV secretly marries this commoner	Elizabeth Woodville	14%
1436	Completion and consecration of this cathedral in Italy	Florence Cathedral	14%
1409	The Council of ____ attempts to end the Western Schism by electing a new pope	Pisa	14%
1472	Foundation of the world's oldest existing bank, beginning as a mount of piety in this Italian city	Siena	14%
1442	This Aragonese king proclaims himself king of Naples	Alfonso	9%
1493	Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III undergoes this surgical procedure	Amputation	9%
1403	This English rebel is killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury	Henry 'Hotspur' Percy	9%
1424	This king returns to Scotland after 18 years as a hostage in England	James I	9%
1488	This king is killed at the Battle of Sauchieburn	James III	9%
1417	The Western Schism comes to an end with ______ V elected pope	Martin	9%
1404	Earliest possible date of authorship (by carbon dating) of this mysterious manuscript	Voynich manuscript	9%
1449	This duke, the final historical antipope, relinquishes his claim to the papacy	Felix V	5%
1440	This French knight and baron is executed for the serial murder of children	Gilles de Rais	5%
1458	The ____ Day, an attempted ritualistic reconciliation between Yorkists and Lancastrians	Love	5%
1467	Sultan Hassan III, ruler of this country, is deposed in absentia while on Hajj	Maldives	5%
1428	This pioneering Florentine artist dies aged 26	Masaccio	5%
1490	This unusual natural disaster kills a number of people in Qinyang, China	Meteor shower	5%
1484	Death of this infamously nepotistic pope	Sixtus IV	5%
1430	Ottoman forces capture this Greek city	Thessalonica	5%
1435	This treaty terminates the alliance between England and Burgundy	Treaty of Arras	5%
1419	Korea launches a failed invasion of this island	Tsushima	5%
1445	Ottoman invaders are defeated by forces from this country at the Battle of Mokra	Albania	0%
1459	According to legend, the marriage of this founder of the Rosicrucian Order	Christian Rosenkreuz	0%
1411	The bloody Battle of ______ is fought to a draw in Scotland	Harlaw	0%
1447	This Lancastrian duke is arrested for treason	Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester	0%
1450	This Englishman leads a failed revolt against the Crown	Jack Cade	0%
1451	Death of this English monk and poet	John Lydgate	0%
1443	Stephen II, ruler of this country, gouges out his brother's eyes	Moldavia	0%
1463	After burial, the body of this future saint is exhumed and found to be incorrupt	Saint Catherine	0%
1454	The _______ ______ War breaks out between Prussia and the Teutonic Order	Thirteen Years'	0%
1426	Death of this English poet	Thomas Hoccleve	0%
1444	The Treaty of _____ secures a peace between England and France	Tours	0%
1489	First reliable documentation of this disease	Typhus	0%
1452	A volcanic eruption on this Pacific island lengthens the Little Ice Age	Vanuatu	0%
1460	The Duke of York is killed in the Battle of _________	Wakefield	0%

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