Events 1445 - Printing press developed in Europe. Works Per Raff Lille, Mariaviser ("Songs to Mary"), Denmark ("The Great Rhymed Chronicle"), Sweden 1402–1403 – Christine de Pisan, Le Livre du chemin de long estude, describing a trial of the faults of this world in the "Court of Reason" 1403 – Christine de Pisan, La Mutacion de Fortune ("The Changes of Fortune") c.1434 – John Lydgate, The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr c.1470–1485 – Pietru Caxaro, Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese text c.1480s – Robert Henryson, cycle The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in Scotland 1473–1480 – Maladhar Basu, ''Sri Krishna Vijaya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণবিজয়, "Triumph of Lord Krishna"), Bengal Births and deaths Mexico Axayacatl (1449-1481), huey tlatoani (supreme leader or emperor) of Tenochtitlan and poet Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin (mid 15th-early 16th centuries) wise man, poet, white eagle from Tecamachalco Cacamatzin (1483-1520), tlatoani of Texcoco and poet Chichicuepon (15th century) poet from Chalco (altépetl) Cuacuauhtzin (1410-1443), tlatoani (ruler) of Tepechpan wrote a poem about his betrayal by Nezahualcoyotl. Macuilxochitzin (c. 1435-?), daughter of Tlacaelel Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani) (1402-1472), ruler of Texcoco (altepetl), poet, and architect Tecayehuatzin of Huexotzinco (second half of 15th to early 16th century), poet and philosopher (Huexotzinco was a semi-independent state, alternately loyal to the Aztec Empire or to Tlaxcala.) Temilotzin (end of 15th century-1525), born in Tlatelolco (altepetl) and Tlatoani of Tzilacatlan Tochihuitzin coyolchiuhqui, (late 14th-mid 15th centuries) Tlatoani and poet from Teotlatzinco, son of Itzcoatl Xicotencatl I (1425-1522) tlatoani of Tizatlan (Tlaxcala) Europe Per Raff Lille (c. 1450 — c. 1500), Danish Tomas af Strangnas, (died 1443), Swedish François Villon (1431–1463), French Janus Pannonius (1431–1472), Latin from Hungary Japan Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 (1473–1549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai Ikkyū 休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun 1394–1481), eccentric, iconic, Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, poet and sometime mendicant flute player who influenced Japanese art and literature with an infusion of Zen attitudes and ideals; one of the creators of the formal Japanese tea ceremony; well-known to Japanese children through various stories and the subject of a popular Japanese children's television program; made a character in anime fiction Shōtetsu 正徹 (1381–1459), considered by some the last great poet in the courtly waka tradition; his disciples were important in the development of renga, which led to haiku Sōgi 宗祇 (1421–1502), Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry,