Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (TRIH ep 490, part 4)
1420 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook conclude their multi-episode study of Henry V by examining the immediate aftermath of Agincourt and Henry's subsequent campaign and diplomacy. They describe the battlefield horror, the scale of French losses and prisoners (including the young Duke of Orléans), and Henry's use of victory to secure domestic legitimacy.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1420
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)