Gypsies appear in Transylvania; they are believed to have been low-caste Hindus expelled by Timur in the fourteenth century.
1418. Close of the Council of Constance. See "Council of Constance," vii, [284.]
A great massacre in Paris of the Armagnacs by the populace, the partisans of John the Fearless of Burgundy; the Dauphin and his adherents transfer their seat of government to Poitiers.
1419. Surrender of Rouen to the English.
John the Fearless, beguiled by a treaty, meets the Dauphin, who has him assassinated.
Storming of the town-hall of Prague by the Hussites; outbreak of the Hussite wars.
Madeira first reached by the Portuguese, who sail under the command of Henry the Navigator.
1420. Henry V, King of England, made successor to the French throne. See "Battle of Agincourt," vii, [320.]
Sigismund besieges the Hussites in Prague; he is defeated by them, led by John Ziska.
Joanna II of Naples, who summons to her aid Alfonso V of Aragon, is attacked by Louis III of Anjou.