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1400s
July 20, 1402 - Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Timur wins the Battle of Ankara
July 21, 1403 - Britain: Henry IV wins the Battle of Shrewsbury
1410s
July 15, 1410 - Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) sees the Teutonic Knights defeated
August 18-September 22, 1415 - Hundred Years' War: Henry V besieges and captures Harfleur
October 25, 1415 - Hundred Years' War: French forces are beaten by Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt
January 19, 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V
July 30, 1419 - Hussite Wars: Fighting begins with the First Defenestration of Prague
1420s
March 21, 1421 - Hundred Years' War: Scottish and French forces defeat the English at the Battle of Baugé
July 31, 1423 - Hundred Years' War: The English win the Battle of Cravant
August 17, 1424 - Hundred Years' War: The Duke of Bedford wins the Battle of Verneuil
September 5, 1427 - Hundred Years' War: French forces break the siege of Montargis
October 12, 1428-May 8, 1429 - Hundred Years' War: The Siege of Orleans is fought, with Joan of Arc eventually saving the city
February 12, 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Sir John Fastolf wins the Battle of the Herrings
June 18, 1429 - Hundred Years' War: The French win the Battle of Patay
1430s
May 30, 1431 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc is executed at Rouen
August 14, 1431 - Hussite Wars: The Hussites win the Battle of Taus
May 30, 1434 - Hussite Wars: The conflict effectively ends following the Battle of Lipany
1450s
April 15, 1450 - Hundred Years' War: Comte de Clermont defeats the English at the Battle of Formigny
April 2-May 29, 1453 - Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: The Second Ottoman Siege of Constantinople is conducted resulting in the fall of the Byzantine Empire
July 17, 1453 - Hundred Years' War: The English, under the Earl of Shrewsbury are beaten at the Battle of Castillon
May 22, 1455 - Wars of the Roses: The First Battle of St. Albans results in a victory for the Yorkist cause
September 23, 1459 - Wars of the Roses: The Earl of Salisbury wins the Battle of Blore Heath for the Yorkists
1460s
July 10, 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Henry VI is captured during the Battle of Northampton
December 30, 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Richard, Duke of York is defeated and killed at the Battle of Wakefield
February 2, 1461 - Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists win the Battle of Mortimer's Cross and Edward IV is proclaimed king on March 4
February 17, 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Lancastrian forces win the Second Battle of St. Albans
March 29, 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Edward triumphs at the Battle of Towton
July 1467-1477 - Japan: A dispute between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Sōzen escalates into the Onin War
July 26, 1469 - Wars of the Roses: The Lancastrians win at the Battle of Edgecote Moor
1470s
April 14, 1471 - Wars of the Roses: The Earl of Warwick is killed at the Battle of Barnet
May 4, 1471 - Wars of the Roses: Edward IV reclaims the throne after winning the Battle of Tewkesbury
March 1, 1476 - War of the Castilian Succession: Portugal is defeated at the Battle of Toro
March 2, 1476 - Burgundian Wars: Duke Charles of Burgundy is beaten at the Battle of Granson
June 22, 1476 - Burgundian Wars: Swiss forces defeat the Duke of Burgundy at the Battle of Murten (Morat)
January 5, 1477 - Burgundian Wars: Duke Charles is defeated and killed at the Battle of Nancy ending the conflict
1480s
August 22, 1485 - Wars of the Roses: Henry Tudor triumphs at the Battle of Bosworth Field and becomes Henry VII
June 16, 1487 - Wars of the Roses: The final engagement of the war is fought at the Battle of Stoke Field
1490s
January 2, 1492 - The Reconquista: Spanish forces capture Granada from the Moors ending the conflict
October 1494 - Italian Wars: Sixty-three years of conflict begin with the French invasion of Italy
1510s
April 11, 1512 - War of the League of Cambrai: French forces win the Battle of Ravenna
September 9, 1513 - War of the League of Cambrai: Scottish forces are crushed at the Battle of Flodden
August 23, 1514 - Ottoman Empire: Ottoman forces win the Battle of Chaldiran over the Safavid Empire
September 13-14, 1515 - War of the League of Cambrai: The French defeat the Swiss at the Battle of Marignano
1520s
February 24, 1525 - Italian Wars: Imperial and Spanish forces defeat and capture Francis I at the Battle of Pavia
April 21, 1526 - Mughal Conquests: Babur wins the First Battle of Panipat
August 29, 1526 - Ottoman-Hungarian Wars: Hungarian forces are badly defeated at the Battle of Mohacs
March 17, 1527 - Mughal Conquests: The forces of Babur defeat the Rajput Confederation to conquer northern India
May 6, 1527 - Italian Wars: Imperial troops sack Rome
September 27-October 14, 1529 - Ottoman-Habsburg Wars: The Ottomans besiege Vienna but are forced to retreat
1530s
October 11, 1531 - Second War of Kappel: Swiss Catholics defeat the Protestants of Zurich at the Battle of Kappel
1539 - Mughal Empire: Humayan is defeated by the Sher-Shah at the Battle of Benares
1540s
1540 - Anglo-Spanish War: English naval commander Sir Francis Drake is born in Tavistock, Devon
November 24, 1542 - Anglo-Scottish Wars: Scottish forces are beaten at the Battle of Solway Moss
February 21, 1543 - Ethiopian-Adal War: Emperor Galawdewos wins the Battle of Wayna Daga
February 27, 1545 - Anglo-Scottish Wars: Scottish troops defeat the English at the Battle of Ancrum Moor
April 24, 1547 - Schmalkaldic War: Protestant forces are beaten at the Battle of Mühlberg
September 10, 1547 - Anglo-Scottish Wars: The English win the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh over the Scots
1550s
November 5, 1556 - Mughal Empire: Mughal forces defeat rebels at the Second Battle of Panipat
1560s
September 10, 1561 - Japan: The Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between Takeda and Uesugi forces
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