Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
1400:
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight completed (started around 1350)
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He wa ...
, ''
The Canterbury Tales
''The Canterbury Tales'' ( enm, Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's ''Masterpiece, ...
'', left incomplete with the author's death this year
1402:
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Pere de Queralt appointed ambassador to
Tunis
Works published
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "
earin poetry" article:
1400:
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Olivier Basselin (died
1450
Year 1450 ( MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* February 7 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort ...
), French poet
*
Raighu
Raidhu ( IAST: Raidhū; 1393–1489) was an Apabhramsha poet from Gwalior, and an important figure in the Digambara Jain community. He supervised the pratishtha consecration ceremony of many—perhaps most—of the Jain idols carved on the hill ...
(died
1479
Year 1479 ( MCDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
Events
January–December
* January 20 – Ferdinand II ascends the throne of Aragon, and rules together wit ...
),
Apabhraṃśa
Apabhraṃśa ( sa, अपभ्रंश, , Prakrit: , ta, அவப்பிரஞ்சனம், , ) is a term used by '' vaiyākaraṇāḥ'' (native grammarians) since Patañjali to refer to languages spoken in North India before the ris ...
poet
1402:
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Nezahualcoyotl Nezahualcoyotl may refer to:
* Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani), the ruler of Texcoco
* Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, a city in the State of Mexico
* Nezahualcóyotl metro station, in Mexico City
* The Nezahualcóyotl Award, a literary prize in Mexico
* Nezah ...
(died
1472
Year 1472 ( MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* February 20 – Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, as a resul ...
), philosopher, poet and ruler (''
tlatoani'') of the city-state of
Texcoco in
pre-Columbian Mexico
1403:
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Gilbert Hay, or perhaps "Sir Gilbert the Hay", who may have been a different person; last mentioned this year (died
1455
Year 1455 (Roman numerals, MCDLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 8 – Pope Nicholas V publishes ''Romanus Pontifex'', an e ...
),
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
poet and translator
1404:
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Leon Battista Alberti (born
1472
Year 1472 ( MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* February 20 – Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, as a resul ...
), Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer
1405:
* Sir
Thomas Malory (died
1471
Year 1471 ( MCDLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January – Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar reach the g ...
), English writer, and author of
Le Morte d'Arthur
' (originally written as '; inaccurate Middle French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Rou ...
*
Georges Chastellain
Georges Chastellain (c. 1405 or c. 1415 – 20 March 1475), Burgundian chronicler and poet, was a native of Aalst in Flanders. Chastellain's historical works are valuable for the accurate information they contain. As a poet he was famous am ...
born 1405 or 1415 (died
1475
Year 1475 (Roman numerals, MCDLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 10 – Battle of Vaslui (Moldavian–Ottoman Wars): Stephen I ...
),
Burgundians
The Burgundians ( la, Burgundes, Burgundiōnes, Burgundī; on, Burgundar; ang, Burgendas; grc-gre, Βούργουνδοι) were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes. They appeared in the middle Rhine region, near the Roman Empire, and ...
chronicler and poet
1408:
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Annamacharya (died
1503
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Year 1503 ( MDIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 20 – Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive rights to trade wit ...
), mystic saint composer of the 15th century, widely regarded as the
Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
"pada kavita pitaamaha" (grand old man of simple poetry); husband of
Tallapaka Tirumalamma
*
Chandidas (died unknown), refers to (possibly more than one) medieval poet of
Bengal
1409:
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Liu Jue
Liu Jue (Liu Chüeh, traditional: 劉玨, simplified: 刘珏); ca. 1409–1472 was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).
Liu was born in Changzhou in the Jiangsu
Jiangsu (; ; ...
(died
1472
Year 1472 ( MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* February 20 – Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, as a resul ...
), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "
earin poetry" article:
1400:
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He wa ...
(born
1343
Year 1343 ( MCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 14 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, ...
), English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat
*
Jan of Jenštejn (born
1348
Year 1348 ( MCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1348th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 348th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48t ...
),
Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer
*
Kamal Khujandi
Kamal Khujandi (1320-1400 AD, fa, کمال خجندی), also Kamal Khojandi, Kamaleddin Khojandi, or Kamal-E Khojandi, was a Persian Sufi and Persian ghazal poet of the 14th century (8th century hijri).
He was born in Khujand, today the capi ...
(born ''unknown''),
Persian(
Tajik
Tajik, Tadjik, Tadzhik or Tajikistani may refer to:
* Someone or something related to Tajikistan
* Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan
* Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan
* Tajik (surname)
* Tajik cu ...
)
Sufi
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...
and
Persian ghazal
The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...
poet
*
William Langland (born
1332
Year 1332 ( MCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
* February 18 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia, begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces ...
), conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision
Piers Plowman
''Piers Plowman'' (written 1370–86; possibly ) or ''Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman'' (''William's Vision of Piers Plowman'') is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in un-rhymed, alliterative v ...
*
Franco Sacchetti
Franco Sacchetti (; c. 1335 – c. 1400), was an Italian poet and novelist.
Biography
Born in Florence or in Ragusa (Croatia), Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik), he was the son of Benci di Uguccione, surnamed ''"Buono"'', a Florentine merchant of ...
(born
1335
Year 1335 ( MCCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* May 2 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
* July 30 ...
), Italian poet and novelist
1405:
*
Gilabert de Próixita (born ''unknown''),
Valencian poet with twenty-one extant
Occitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language
Occitan (; o ...
pieces
*
Jean Froissart (born
1337
Year 1337 ( MCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince establishes the Duchy of Cornwall, beco ...
), French chronicler and poet
See also
*
Poetry
*
15th century in poetry
Events
* 1445 - Printing press developed in Europe.
Works
* Per Raff Lille, ''Mariaviser'' ("Songs to Mary"), DenmarkPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books ...
*
15th century in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 15th century.
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Events
*1403 – A guild of stationers is founded in the City of London. As the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (the "Stati ...
Notes
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