Events noted in 1400

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1400

Died: Angriani, Michael commonly called Michael of Bologna

Died: Baldi De Ubaldus lawyer

Publication: “The amorous contention of Phillis and Flora,” by Chapman, George poet

Born: Gozzoli, Benozzo artist

Born: Guttenberg, John called also Gænsfleisch de Sulgeloch

Died: Gwilym, David Ap the Ovid of Wales

Born: Porcellus, Peter a Neapolitan of the fifteenth century

1401

Born: Cusa, Nicholas De cardinal

Born: Masaccio artist

1402

Died: Gower, John one of the few poets who flourished in the first periods of our poetical history

Born: Joan Of Arc commonly called the Maid of Orleans

1403

Born: Estouteville, William D' cardinal

1404

Born: Sanchez, Roderico prelate

1405

Born: Kennedy, James bishop

Born: Palmieri, Matthew an Italian chronicler

Born: Pius Ii., Pope whose name was Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini

1406

Died: Coluccio, Salutato poet and philosopher

Born: Vegio, Maffei poet

1407

Died: Birchington, Stephen or Brickington

Born: Dunois, John a brave French officer

Born: Valla, Lawrence a man of letters of great emience in the fifteenth century

1408

Born: Justiniani, Bernard nephew of the above

Born: Oliva, Alexander general of the Augustin monks

1409

Born: Castagno, Andrea, Dal painter

Born: Picus, John Francis was the son of Galeoti Picus (?–1533)

Died: Roye, Guy Le archbishop

1410

Died: Ancharanus, Peter an eminent civilian of the fourteenth century

Died: Boston, John monk

Born: Morton, John prelate

Publication: “A History of the Schism,” by Thierri a native of Paderborn in Westphalia

1411

Died: Cantacuzenus, John emp.eror of Constantinople

1412

Publication: “De Bello inter Hispanos et Genuenses,” by Bracelli, James antiquary

Born: Caxton, William to whom this country owes the introduction of printing (14121492)

Died: Fabriano, Gentile Da painter

1413

Died: Arundel, Thomas archbishop

Born: Sixtus Iv. is said by some writers to have been the son of a fisherman at Celles

1415

Born: Accolti, Benedetto historian

Born: Botoner, William writer

Publication: “In short, I have in one night consummated my marriage, and consumed my patrimony.” by Bruni, Leonard historian

Died: Vergerius, Peter Paul one of the most learned men of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

1416

Died: Foligno, Federigo Frezzi Da poet

Born: Francis, Of Paulo saint

1417

Died: Aliprandi, Bonamente whom Crescembini has placed among the poets of Italy

Born: Andreas, John bishop

Died: Thierri a native of Paderborn in Westphalia

1418

Born: Accolti, Francis the brother of Benedetto

Died: Flamel, Nicholas falsely celebrated as an alchymist

1419

Born: Attavanti, Paul generally known in Italy by the name of Father Paul of Florence

Born: Wesselus, John one of the most learned men of the fifteenth century

1420

Born: Dati, Augustine writer

Born: Merula, George an Italian of very uncommon talents and learning

Died: Spinello, Aretino painter

1421

Born: Basin of Parma

Born: Bellini, Gentile artist

Born: Platina, Bartolomeo Sacchi so called

Publication: “History of the Popes,” by Platina, Bartolomeo Sacchi so called

1422

Born: Bellini, Giovanni was born at Venice in 1422

Born: Cadamosto, Lewis a famous Venetian navigator

1423

Died: Argillata, Peter physician

Born: Purbach, George astronomer

1424

Born: Landinus, Christopher scholar

Born: Scala, Bartholomew an Italian

Died: Zisca, John whose proper name was De Trocznow

1425

Died: Ailli, Peter D' an eminent Romish ecclesiastic

Born: Caraccioli, Robert often called Hobertus de Licio

Died: Chrysoloras, Emanuel the principal of those learned men who brought the Greek language and literature into the West

1426

Born: Antonio, Da Messina so called because he was of that city

Died: Eyck, Hubert Van painter

Born: Pontanus, John Jovian a very learned Italian

1427

Died: Albicus archbishop

Born: Bosso, Matthew scholar

Born: Campanus, John Anthony poet

1428

Born: Acciaioli, Donato was of an illustrious family

Died: Beston, John divine

Born: Bigne, Gace De La and not de la Vigne

Born: Leonicenus, Nicholas an eminent Italian phy-

Died: Medici, Cosmo De a celebrated citizen of Florence

1429

Died: Bate, John prior of the monastery of Carmelites at York in the fifteenth century

Died: Gerson, John by some called Charlier

1430

Born: Afflitto, Matthew lawyer

Born: Albertini, Paul divine

Died: Gasparino, Banzizza one of the revivers of literature

Born: Mahomet Ii. the eleventh sultan of the Turks

1431

Born: Mantegna, Andrea painter

Born: Pulci, Luigi one of the most famous Italian poets

1432

Born: Annius which Bayle follows

Born: Pace, Richard a learned Englishman (14821532)

1433

Born: Ficinus, Marsilius a learned Italian

1434

Born: Boiardo, Matteo-Maria count of Scandiano

Died: Botoner, William writer

Born: Foresti, James, Philip Of was born at Soldio

Died: Procopius, Rasus, Or The Shaven Rasus

1436

Born: Muller, John commonly called Regiomontanus

Born: Sabellicus whose proper name was Marcus Antonius Coccius

1437

Born: Abrabanel, Isaac rabbi

Born: Botticelli, Alexander painter and engraver

Died: Castro, Paul De one of the most eminent lawyers of the fifteenth century

Publication: “Si Bartolus non esset, esset Paulus.” by Castro, Paul De one of the most eminent lawyers of the fifteenth century

Born: Esperiente, Philip Callimachus historian

Born: Ximenes, Francis statesman

1439

Born: Signorelli, Luca artist

1440

Born: Bolzanio, Urbano Valeriano one of the revivers of letters in the fifteenth century

Died: Coster, Lawrence an inhabitant of Haerlem

Born: Fevre, James Le Stapulensis

1441

Born: Augurello, John Aurelio an Italian

Born: Beaufort, Margaret the foundress of Christ’s and St

Died: Eyck, John Van and the supposed inventor of oil-painting

1442

Born: Agricola, Rodolphus one of the most learned men of the fifteenth century

Born: Antonius Ælius Nebrissensis was born in 1442

Born: Columbus, Christopher a Genoese

Born: Grocyn, William a man eminently learned in his day> and one of the revivers of literature

Died: Rudborne, Thomas bishop

Born: Wydeville, Anthony, Earl Rivers a very accomplished nobleman of the fifteenth century (?–1483)

Died: Zabarella, Francis cardinal (?–1417)

1443

Died: Angelico, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole

Died: Aretino, Charles was of Arezzo in Tuscany

Born: Raulin, John divine

1444

Born: Bramante Di Urbino but celebrated under the former name

Died: Bruni, Leonard historian

Publication: “J. Dlugossi historiie Polonicoe Hbri duodecim, &c.” by Dlugoss, John Longinus historian

Born: Galateo, Antony writer

1445

Born: Calderinus, Domitius a man of great learning in the fifteenth century

Died: Ferdinand Of Cordoua a learned Spaniard

Born: Fontius, Bartholomæus of Florence

Born: Geiler, John or

Publication: “Oratio ad regem Alphonsum in nuptiis filii sui.” by Manetti, Giannozzo scholar

Born: Porta, Johnbaptista a Neapolitan gentleman

Died: Tudeschi, Nicholas an eminent canonist

1446

Died: Brunelleschi, Philip architect

Born: Comines Lat. Cominæus

Publication: “Actis & Deidis of Shyr Willam Wallace,” by Henry The Minstrel poet

Died: Masaccio artist

Born: Perugino, Pietro painter

Born: Urceus, Anthony Codrus a learned Italian

1447

Died: Beaufort, Henry bishop

Born: Manutius, Aldus the elder of three justly celebrated printers (?–1515)

Died: Waynflete, William Of the illustrious founder of Magdalen college

1448

Died: Bencius, Hugo was a native of Sienna

Born: Brandt, Sebastian lawyer

Died: Burchiello poet

Born: Mantuan, Baptist poet

Born: Medici, Lorenzo was born Jan. 1

1449

Died: Chartier, Alain a native of Bayeux (1385–?)

Born: Ghirlandaio, Domenico painter

Publication: “Proclus de Sphaera,” by Grocyn, William a man eminently learned in his day> and one of the revivers of literature

Born: Ruccellai, Bernard in Latin Oricellarius