Late Middle Ages · Europe · Culture

1441

Eton College Founded

1441

Henry VI laid the foundation stone for a college at Eton to educate seventy poor scholars in preparation for his companion foundation at King's College, Cambridge. The king's own mental fragility never slowed the building. Eton would outlast his dynasty and all subsequent English dynasties, training future prime ministers for six centuries.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1440: Gilles de Rais Tried and Hanged
After: 1442: Lorenzo Valla Exposes Donation of Constantine

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1440: Gilles de Rais Tried and Hanged
After: 1442: Lorenzo Valla Exposes Donation of Constantine

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Eton College