15th century
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- Notable events: Beginning of the Renaissance, colonization of Americas.
- Notable empires: Ottoman Empire, Portuguese.
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- Notable Christian events: European missionaries in Africa.
- Notable Christians: John Hus.
[edit] Events
- 1400s - General start of the Renaissance.
- 1409 - Martyrdom of John Hus, the reformer, who is burned at the stake.
- 1410 - Bible is translated into Hungarian.
- 1435 - Forced conversion of Jews in Spain.
- 1448 - First Christians reported in Mauritania.
- 1450 - All of the great international land highways are in Muslim hands, who derive most of their wealth from commerce and trade.
- 1453 - Followers of John Hus unite with Waldensians to become the United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum, the nucleus of (eventually) the Moravians.
- 1453 - Constantinople falls to the Muslim Ottoman Empire who make it their capital; magnificent Saint Sophia Cathedral converted into a mosque.
- 1455 - Introduction of movable type in Europe.
- 1462 - Johannes Gutenberg begins printing the Bible with his movable-type printing process; Pope Pius II assigns the evangelization of the Portuguese Guinea Coast of Africa to the Franciscans led by Alfonso de Bolano
- 1485 - After having come into contact with the Portuguese, the King of Benin requests that a church be planted in his kingdom
- 1486 - Dominicans become active in West Africa, notably among the Wolof people in Senegambia.
- 1489 - Baptism of Wolof king Behemoi in Senegal
- 1491 - The Congo sees its first group of missionaries arrive. Under the ministry of these Franciscan and Dominican priests, the king would soon be baptized and a church built at the royal capital.
- 1492 - Birth of the church in Angola
- 1492 - Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula achieved under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
- 1493 - Pope Alexander VI commands Spain to colonize the New World with Catholic missions; Christopher Columbus takes Christian priests with him on his second journey to the New World
- 1494 - First missionaries arrive in Dominican Republic
- 1495 - The head of a convent in Seville, Spain, Mercedarian Jorge, makes a trip to the West Indies.
- 1496 - First Christian baptisms in the New World take place when Indian chief Guaticaba along with other members of his household are baptized on the island of Hispaniola
- 1497 - Forced conversion of Jews in Portugal
- 1498 - First Christians are reported in Kenya
- 1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope and reaches India.
- 1499 - Portuguese Augustinian missionaries arrive at Zanzibar. Their mission will end in 1698 due to the Oman-Arab conquest.
