fifteenth century
Columbus sailed then
The fifteenth century spans the years 1401 to 1500.
Like other century terms, it functions as both noun and adjective: the art of the fifteenth century, fifteenth-century architecture.
The apparent mismatch—fifteenth century containing the 1400s—follows from counting: the first century was years 1–100, so each century's name exceeds its dates by one.
- Vlad the ImpalerMedieval ruler infamous for impalement
- Hussite WarsBohemian religious conflicts, 1419-1434
- fall of ConstantinopleOttoman capture of Byzantium
- Holy Roman EmpireMedieval Germanic political entity
- Middle EnglishLanguage between 1100-1500
Canterbury Tales · Inca Empire · medieval · late medieval · Black Death · plague years · Wars of the Roses · Renaissance · Aztec Empire · Reconquista · Hundred Years' War · Humanism · Joan of Arc · illuminated manuscripts · wool · Machu Picchu · Great Schism · civil war
- printing historyprinting press, Gutenberg, typographers, Gutenberg press, block printing
fifteenth centurytwenty-first century
Years 2001 through 2100
modern era · today · twentieth century · prehistoric era · the here and now
fifteenth centuryancient times
Long-ago historical era
antiquity · prehistory · classical antiquity · ancient Egypt