15th century Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century · 15th century · 16th century
Decades:	1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

The 15th century is the century from 1401 to 1500.

Decades and years

Note: years before or after the 15th century are in italics.

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, victorious at the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Various historians describe it as the end of the Middle Ages.
Portrait of the founder of accounting, Luca Pacioli, by Jacopo de' Barbari (Museo di Capodimonte).
Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl, directly influenced the result of the Hundred Years' War.
Detail of The Emperor's Approach showing the Xuande Emperor's royal carriage. Ming Dynasty of China.
Modern painting of Mehmed II marching on Constantinople in 1453
The Siege of Rhodes (1480). Ships of the Hospitaliers in the forefront, and Turkish camp in the background.
Gergio Deluci, Christopher Columbus arrives in America in 1492, 1893 painting.
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446), regarded as one of the greatest engineers and architects of all time
Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468), German inventor who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press
Skanderbeg (1405–1468), who led the Albanian resistance against the Ottoman Empire
Ivan III of Russia (1440–1505), Grand Prince of Moscow who ended the dominance of the Tatars in the lands of the Rus
Richard III of England (1452–1485), the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty
King Henry VII (1457–1509), the founder of the royal house of Tudor