Council of Constance Opens
November 5, 1414
Sigismund convened the largest church gathering in a century to end the Papal Schism and silence the Bohemian heretic Jan Hus. Thirty thousand clerics, merchants, and prostitutes descended on the lakeside town. It would take four years to produce one pope, and only one man would be burned. Its agenda encompassed ending the schism, reforming the Church, and suppressing heresy, though procedural disputes consumed enormous energy.
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Also in 1414 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.