Late Middle Ages · Europe · Culture

1446

King's College Chapel Begun

1446

Henry VI laid the foundation stone for the chapel of his Cambridge college, a building that would take ninety years to complete and rise through three dynasties of English kings. Its fan-vaulted ceiling remains one of the masterpieces of late Gothic architecture in stone, supported by nothing but precisely cut voussoirs.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1445: Henry VI Marries Margaret of Anjou
After: 1447: Filippo Maria Visconti Dies in Milan

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1445: Benin Bronze Casting Reaches Artistic Peak
After: 1447: Nicholas V Elected Pope

Era

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