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| 1415 |
| | John Huss, invited to Constance under a promise of safe conduct, is arrested, tried and burnt at the stake as a heretic | |
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| 1417 |
| | The Council of Constance, having done its best to dispose of the three existing popes, elects a new one - Martin V | |
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| c. 1455 |
| | Master ES becomes the first artist to produce engravings | |
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| 1456 |
| | A copy of Europe's first book printed from movable type, the Gutenberg Bible, is completed in Mainz | |
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| c. 1461 |
| | Albrecht Pfister publishes the first book with printed illustrations - Der Ackermann aus Böhmen ('The farmer of Bohemia') | |
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| 1466 |
| | In the treaty of Torun the Teutonic knights finally cede Prussia to Poland | |
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| 1470 |
| | The first Italian printing press is set up in Venice, which soon rivals Germany for the quality of its printing | |
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| 1492 |
| | The world's first globe is published by Martin Behaim without showing America, in the very year of Columbus' voyage | |
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| 1493 |
| | The Nuremberg Chronicle integrates text and pictures in an ambitious history of the world | |
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| c. 1495 |
| | Dürer, the first great artist to tackle the complexities of printing, becomes a master of woodcut and engraving | |
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