15th century

=== 1401–1409 ===
[[File:Pacioli.jpg|250px|thumb|upright|''[[Portrait of Luca Pacioli|Portrait of the founder of accounting, Luca Pacioli]]'', by [[Jacopo de' Barbari]] ([[Museo di Capodimonte]]).]]
* [[1401]]: [[Dilawar Khan]] establishes the [[Malwa Sultanate]] in present-day central India.
* [[1402]]: [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] and [[Timurid Empire]]s fight at the [[Battle of Ankara]] resulting in the capture of [[Bayezid I]] by [[Timur]].
* [[1402]]: [[Sultanate of Malacca]] founded by [[Parameswara (sultan)|Parameswara]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Winstedt |first=R. O. |author-link=R. O. Winstedt |year=1948 |title=The Malay Founder of Medieval Malacca |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuaMNAAACAAJ |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] on behalf of [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] |volume=12 |issue=3/4 |pages=726–729 |doi=10.1017/S0041977X00083312 |jstor=608731}}</ref>
* [[1402]]: The [[Conquest of the Canary Islands|settlement of the Canary Islands]] signals the beginning of the [[Spanish Empire]].
* [[1403]]–[[1413]]: [[Ottoman Interregnum]], a civil war between the four sons of [[Bayezid I]].
* [[1403]]: The [[Yongle Emperor]] moves the capital of China from [[Nanjing]] to [[Beijing]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=An introduction to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) |url=https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/imperial-china/ming-dynasty/a/an-introduction-to-the-ming-dynasty-13681644 |website=[[Khan Academy]] |publisher=[[Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)|Asian Art Museum]] |access-date=29 September 2018}}</ref>
* [[1404]]–[[1406]]: [[Regreg War]], [[Majapahit]] civil war of secession between [[Wikramawardhana]] against Wirabhumi.
* [[1405]]: The [[Sultanate of Sulu]] is established by [[Sharif ul-Hāshim of Sulu|Sharif ul-Hāshim]].
* [[1405]]–[[1433]]: During the [[Ming treasure voyages]], Admiral [[Zheng He]] of China sails through the [[Indian Ocean]] to Malacca, India, Ceylon, Persia, Arabia, and East Africa to spread China's influence and sovereignty. The first voyage, a massive [[Ming dynasty]] naval expedition ending in 1407, visited Java, Palembang, Malacca, Aru, Samudera and Lambri.<ref>Modern interpretation of the place names recorded by Chinese chronicles can be found e.g. in [http://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/polities.html Some Southeast Asian Polities Mentioned in the MSL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712191241/http://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/polities.html |date=12 July 2012 }} by Geoffrey Wade</ref>
* [[1408]]: The last recorded event to occur in the [[Norsemen|Norse]] settlements of [[Greenland]] was a wedding in [[Hvalsey]] in the [[Eastern Settlement]] in 1408.