Early Fifteenth-Century Chronology (1390–1449)

History:

ca. 1415: Limbourg brothers, Tres Riches Heures, (for the Duc de Berry).

1420: English occupy Paris.

1431: Jeanne d'Arc executed.

1436: French recapture Paris.

1391–1399: Turks besiege Constantinople.

1415: Battle of Agincourt.

1419: Alliance between Burgundy and England.

1432: Jan van Eyck (1386–1440), the Ghent Altar-piece.

1447–1455: Pope Nicholas V establishes Vatican Library.

(Hundred Years' War)

1436: Brunelleschi, Dome of Florence Cathedral completed.

ca. 1445: Johann Gutenberg (ca. 1400–1467), printing with movable type.

1337–1453:

Music Events:

1412: Prosdocimus de Beldemandis, Tractatus practice cantus mensurabilis as modum Ytalicorum.

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Composers:

ca. 1327-1397 Francesco Landini

Landini d. 1397

?1370/85-1445 Leonel Power

Power d. 1445

1373 [or ca. 1335]-1411[/?12] Johannes Ciconia

Ciconia d. 1411/?12

ca. 1390-1453 John Dunstaple [Dunstable]

1397-1474 Guillaume Du Fay

ca.1400-1460 Gilles de Bins dit Binchois

[Paumann]

ca. 1410–1473 Conrad Paumann

[Ockeghem]

ca. 1410/20-1497 Jean de Ockeghem

[Morton]

ca. 1430-1476 (or later) Robert Morton

[Busnoys]

ca. 1430-1492 Antoine Busnoys

[Tinctoris]

ca. 1435-1511 Johannes Tinctoris

[Isaac]

ca. 1440/50-1517 Heinrich Isaac

[Josquin]

ca. 1440-1521 Josquin Desprez

[Finck]

1444/45-1527 Heinrich Finck

[H. van Ghizeghem]

c.1445-1472/97 van Ghizeghem

[Agricola]

1445/46-1506 Agricola

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1140–1199

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