Hundred Years' War 1337–1453

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Key battles

• Battle of Cassel (1328)
• Battle of Cadzand (1337)
• Battle of Morlaix (1342)
• Battle of Auberoche (1345)
• Battle of Crécy (1346)
• Siege of Calais (1346)
• Battle of Caen (1346)
• Battle of Neville's Cross (1346)
• Battle of Blanchetaque (1346)
• Combat of the Thirty (1351)
• Battle of Poitiers (1356)
• Battle of Auray (1364)
• Battle of Cocherel (1364)
• Battle of Nájera (1367)
• Battle of Montiel (1369)
• Battle of Roosebeke (1382)
• Battle of Atoleiros (1384)
• Battle of Aljubarrota (1385)
• Battle of Agincourt (1415)
• Siege of Rouen (1418)
• Battle of Baugé (1421)
• Battle of Cravant (1423)
• Battle of Verneuil (1424)
• Siege of Orléans (1428)
• Battle of Patay (1429)
• Battle of the Herrings (1429)
• Siege of Paris (1429)
• Battle of Beaugency (1429)
• Battle of Jargeau (1429)
• Siege of Compiègne (1430)
• Battle of Formigny (1450)
• Battle of Castillon (1453)

Who lived through the Hundred Years' War

Well-known people alive during 1337–1453:

• Joan of Arc (1412–1431) — French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death
• Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468) — German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) — 14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
• Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) — 14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer
• Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) — Arab historiographer and historian
• Hafez (1325–1389) — Persian poet and mystic (1325–1389)
• Petrarch (1304–1374) — Italian scholar and poet (1304-1374)
• Timur (1336–1405) — the founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)
• Zheng He (1371–1433) — Chinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) — Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
• Mehmed II (1432–1481) — seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
• Donatello (1386–1466) — Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (1386–1466)
• Jan Hus (1370–1415) — Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
• Alexander VI (1431–1503) — pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)
• William of Ockham (1287–1349) — English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
• François Villon (1431–1463) — French poet and criminal
• Julius II (1443–1513) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513 (1443–1513)
• Pius II (1405–1464) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 (1405–1464)
• Vlad the Impaler (1431–1476) — 15th-century ruler of Wallachia
• Henry V of England (1386–1422) — King of England from 1413 to 1422
• Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) — Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
• Jami (1414–1492) — Persian poet (1414–1492)
• Orhan (1281–1362) — second Ottoman Sultan (r. ca. 1324–1362)
• Callixtus III (1379–1458) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1455 to 1458 from the Borgia family
• Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) — Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)

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