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Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 1:36 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
1412 AD On January the 6th Joan of Arc was born. Tradition has it that on this day the roosters started before even it was dawn to herald the coming of different dawn for France.

1413 AD Henry the V of England succeeds his father Henry the IV. this heralds the opening of the last phase of the Hundred Years' War.

1414 AD – Joanna II succeeds her brother Ladislaus, as Queen of Naples. She is the last monarch to be of Capetian ancestry.

1415 AD On October 25 the Battle of Agincourt is fought. In the last of the major battles of the Hundred Years' War, archers of Henry V of England are instrumental in defeating an amassed army of French knights. The defeat is so heavy that France accepts terms that are almost unconditional surrender.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 5:07 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
Βump!

1416 AD Venetian admiral Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet at Calipolli at the entrance of the Bosporus straights.

1417 AD Avignon Pope Benedict XIII is deposed, bringing to an end the Great Western Schism.

1418 AD John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, captures Paris while the English started the siege of Rouen.

1419 AD Rouen fell to Henry the V.

1420 AD With the Treaty of Troyes King Charles VI of France acknowledges Henry V of England as his heir, and as virtual ruler of most of France and marries him with his daughter Cathrine.

1421 AD King Henry has an heir, Henry the VI, all seem lost for France but...

1422 AD King Henry the V dies unexpectedly leaving his nine months old son as king. Charles VII dies also leaving the Treaty of Troyes a dead letter and the war starts all over again.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 9:53 pm
by DarthPorg36
1423 - July 31 – Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated at Cravant, on the banks of the River Yonne near Auxerre, by the English and their Burgundian allies.

1424 - August 17 – Battle of Verneuil: An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under the Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas. Alençon is captured and Douglas killed.

1425 - Beijing, capital of China, becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Nanjing (estimated date)

By this year, paper currency in China is worth only 0.025% to 0.014% of its original value in the 14th century; this, and the counterfeiting of copper coin currency, will lead to a dramatic shift to using silver as the common medium of exchange in China.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 9:39 am
by PRINCE WILLIAM
1426 AD At the Battle of St. James an English army under John, Duke of Bedford, defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont, forcing the Duke of Brittany to recognize English suzerainty.

1427 AD Radu II of Wallachia resumes the throne for the fourth time, but a seven-year struggle for it ends when he is defeated in battle, and probably killed, by Dan II, who resumes the throne for the fifth time (we talk about real political stability here!)

1428 AD English forces under Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, besiege Orléans. Jean de Dunois, the Bastard of Orléans, commands the defenders. A few days later, Thomas Montacute is mortally wounded in an unsuccessful assault on Orléans. He is succeeded in command by William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk.

1429 AD Jean D' Arc commanding the French army lifts the siege of Orleans and turns the tide of the war. She then proceeds to see Charles the VII crowned. She defeats the English forces again and they are pressed to withdraw from many areas of France.

1430 AD Jean D' aArc is captured by soldiers of Philip the Good of Burgundy who ransoms her to the English.

1431 AD On May 30 Jean D' Arc is burned at the stake. Some years later her trial was nullified and she became a patron saint of France. To his shame, Charles the VII made no effort to save her who saved his country and his crown.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 7:28 am
by Wusti
1432

The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 12:49 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
1433 AD Sigismund is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. There has been no crowned Emperor since his father's death, Charles IV, in 1378.

1434 AD At the Battle of Lipany, the Catholics and Ultraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 1:13 pm
by DarthPorg36
1435 - China returns to a policy of isolation.

1436 - April – Paris is recaptured from the English by French forces during the Hundred Years War.
July 29 – French forces abandon their Siege of Calais.

1437 - February 20–21 – James I of Scotland is fatally stabbed at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally, Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.
March 11–25 – Nova Scorpii AD 1437 is observed from Seoul, Korea.
March 25 – In a ceremony in Holyrood Abbey, James II of Scotland is crowned at the age of six by Pope Eugene IV. For security of the crown, the capital of Scotland is moved to Edinburgh, from Dunfermline.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 1:10 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
1438 AD The Council of Florence opens in Ferrara (the next year moved to Florence to avoid a plague in Ferrara).

1439 AD Pope Eugene IV issues the Bull of Union with the Greeks, proclaiming the end of the East-West Schism, which was repudiated by most eastern bishops shortly thereafter.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 11:26 pm
by damo666
There are 1440 minutes in a day.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 1:55 am
by Wusti
1441

King's College, Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI of England

1442

John Hunyadi defeats two armies of the Ottoman Empire: the first 80,000 strong, led by Mesid Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu in Transylvania, and the second, 70,000 strong, led by Hadım Şehabeddin, Beylerbey Governorof Rumelia, near the Lalomița River. Following this, he places Basarab II as ruler of Wallachia.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 11:30 am
by kranus
9+10

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 11:35 am
by kranus
Sorry, I didn't saw that we were this far.
I will do my part

1443 Naples is conquered by the Kingdom of Aragon

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 12:17 pm
by DarthPorg36
Year 1444 (MCDXLIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once (1000(M)+(-100(C)+500(D))+(-10(X)+50(L))+(-1(I)+5(V)) = 1444.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 7:45 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
1445 AD Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias discovers the Cap-Vert, on the western coast of Africa.

1446 AD Murad II invades Attica and then Corinth destroying the Hejamilion Wall. He plans to finish off the dying Byzantine Empire but he won't live long enough.

1447 AD Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England dies. that bids bad news for England as it loses a capable administrator in an hour of need.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 9:38 pm
by DarthPorg36
1448 - Vlad III the Impaler becomes reigning Prince of Wallachia for two months, before being deposed by Vladislav II of Wallachia.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 11:36 am
by PRINCE WILLIAM
1449 AD On January 6, Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra; he will be the last of his house and also the last of the empire ending a line that started 15 centuries ago.

1450 AD At the Battle of Formigny French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeated an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough, attempting to relieve Caen.

1451 AD Ghent takes up arms against Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, things are going the wrong way for England and their allies.

1452 AD Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, officially declares war on Ghent while English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, landed in Guyenne, France, and retake most of the province without a fight.

1453 AD On May 29th the City of cities, Constantinople falls to the Ottoman hordes who killed, raped and pillaged for three days.
On the other side of Europe the Hundred Years' War ended without a treaty, and England loses everything in France except Calais, which will keep for another century.
Because of these two major historical events, 1453 is considered the end of the Middle Ages.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 9:44 pm
by Ferdack
1454: The Treaty of Constantinople was signed on April 18 between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.

1455: the Wars of the Roses began in England.

1456: The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in Northern Europe.

1457 (and we're back on track!!): Jacob Obrecht is born, the most famous composer of masses in the late 15th century.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 7:49 am
by Wusti
1458

The Love Day is staged in London, by which Henry VI of England attempts to unite the warring factions who have triggered the War of the Roses, and Magdalen College, Oxford is founded.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 11:35 am
by PRINCE WILLIAM
1459 AD The Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem is founded by Pope Pius II, to defend the island of Lemnos. Alas, it will be shortlived as the Ottoman hordes take the Island.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 6:05 am
by Wusti
1460

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Wars of the Roses – Battle of Northampton: Warwick and March defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King Henry VI of England. It is agreed that York will be Henry's heir, disinheriting the King's son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales