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World History Timeline - 1420
In 1420, Bohemian peasants and laborers defeat an army assembled by Pope Martin V to crusade against heretics living in the region.
England and France are joined under one crown when King Henry V of England signs a peace treaty with Philippe, Duke of Burgundy, in 1420.
In 1421, Yung Lo, the Emperor of China, moves his capital from Nanjing to Beijing while attempting to reform local governments. In the same year, he sends the maritime explorer Cheng Ho on a fifth expedition.
Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator and Europe's top pilots, cartographers, astronomers, instrument makers, and intellectuals pioneer the science of navigation.
England's Henry V dies of dysentery in 1422. His brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, will look after Henry's young son, who will reign until 1460 as Henry VI.
France's Charles VI dies in 1422. His son has been disinherited by the Treaty of Troyes, signed two years earlier. England's Henry VI is recognized as the King of France.
Thomas à Kempis writes his Imitation of Christ, which, with the exception of the Bible, will be the most widely read book in Europe for the next 100 years.
Vietnam becomes independent of China's Ming Empire in 1428.
Joan of Arc, a young French peasant girl, hears and sees Saints Michael the Archangel, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret of Antioch, who advise her to aid the disinherited crown prince of France, the future Charles VII.
With a small army provided by France's crown prince, Joan of Arc liberates the city of Orléans from the English.
Cosimo de' Medici becomes head of his family's Florentine banking house when his father, Giovanni, dies in 1429.
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