15th century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500.

Significant people

• Takeda Shingen, great japanese Daimyo
• Joan of Arc, national heroine of France
• Christopher Columbus sails to the Americas for Spain
• Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon as the monarchs of a unified kingdom who funded the founding of the New World.
• Vasco da Gama reaches India for Portugal, creating the first maritime alternative for the Silk Road
• Filippo Brunelleschi invents one-point perspective, leads innovation in Italian architecture
• Leonardo da Vinci, inventor and painter
• Richard III, last English King of the house of York
• Henry VII, English King founds the Tudor dynasty
• Zheng He, Chinese eunuch admiral and explorer
• Mehmet II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Conqueror of Costantinople