1420s

1420s

Events and trends

* According to , China sends out its vast navy to explore the world, discovers America 70 years before Columbus, Australia and New Zealand 350 years before Cook. The Empire then enters an isolationist period for four centuries, destroying or forgetting most of its knowledge of the voyages.
* The precursors of modern christmas pudding are first prepared in England.


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