The world: 1440s
1440–1449
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- Founding of Joseon1392
- Printing pressc. 1450
- Fall of Constantinople1453
- Sengoku period1467 – 1615
- Columbus reaches the Americas1492
- Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India1497 – 1499
- Ming treasure voyages1405 – 1433
- Inca Empire1438
- Wars of the Roses1455 – 1487
- Bartolomeu Dias1488
- Malacca Sultanate1400
- Battle of Ankara1402