1415 Event

Jan Hus burned at the stake

Name: Jan Hus burned at the stake
Start: 1415

Condemned at Constance, the Czech reformer becomes a national martyr and a forerunner of Luther.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1415 — the context national timelines leave out.

15 years earlier The Florentine Renaissance Italy
5 years earlier Battle of Grunwald Lithuania
17 years later The Ghent Altarpiece Belgium
18 years earlier Kalmar Union Denmark
18 years earlier Kalmar Union Norway
19 years earlier Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria Bulgaria

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.
High and Late Middle Ages 1000 – 1453 Towns, universities, cathedrals, plague and long wars.

Countries involved

Czechia

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What was written of it

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.

Déclaration du 9 mai 1950 1950

Schuman Declaration, Salon de l’Horloge, Paris