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| Dutch humanist
Desiderius Erasmus publishes Adagia in Paris. |
1500 |
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1499 |
Francisco
Jime'nez forces mass conversion of Moors. |
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| Leonardo da Vinci works on The Last Supper |
1497 |
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1495 |
Jews expelled
from Portugal.
Christopher Columbus taxes the natives of Hispaniola. |
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| Giovanni Pico
della Mirandola writesThe Dignity of Men. Sebastian Brant publishes Das Narrenschiff.
Hieronymus Bosch creates
The Garden of Worldly Delights. |
1494 |
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| Columbus
re-introduces the horse to the Western Hemisphere. |
1493 |
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| October 12
Christopher Columbus lands on North American soil. |
1492 |
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| Beginning of ballet in Italian courts. |
1490 |
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1489 |
Inquisitors
Kramer and Sprenger publish Malleus Maleficarum
(the hammer of female evildoers), a handbook for witch hunting
used to torture and kill midwives and the insane. |
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| Titian born. |
1488 |
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1487 |
Pope Innocent VIII names Torquemada grand inquisitor.
Henry VII of England removes the right of the accused to know the names of their accusers. |
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1484 |
Pope Innocent VIII officially
denounces Pagan practices and issues a Bull against witchcraft. |
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| Rafael born. |
1483 |
Tomas de Torquemada leads Spanish Inquisition. |
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| Magellan born. |
1480 |
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1478 |
Isabella of
Castile begins Inquisition against converted Jews and eventually all heretics. |
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1477 |
Edward IV of
England bans the game of cricket. |
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Kiva Han, the world's first coffee house opens in Constantinople.
Michaelangelo born. |
1475 |
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Coprenicus born.
Leonardo joins painters' guild. |
1473 |
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| Japanese and Chinese art cross-pollinate as the Chinese-Japanese painter, Sesshu, trains in Japan and China. |
1467 |
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| First printed
music appears. |
1465 |
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| Johann Gutenberg
completes printing of the Bible. |
1456 |
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1453 |
Byzantium falls. |
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| April 15 Leonardo da Vinci born. |
1452 |
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1450 |
Pope Nicholas V
authorizes subjugation of pagans by Portugese. |
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| Koreans develop a
28-letter alphabet. |
1446 |
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| Leon Battista
Alberti formulates aesthetics of Renaissance painting. |
1436 |
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1434 |
African slaves
brought to Portugal. |
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1431 |
May 30 Jeanne
d'Arc burned at the stake. |
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Jeanne d'Arc liberates Orléans. |
1429 |
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| Japanese farmers
and workers revolt. |
1428 |
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1422 |
Forces attacking Karlstein, Bohemia, launch decaying cadavers over the
castle walls. An early example of
biowarfare. |
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| Henry the
Navigator of Portugal and colleagues pioneer the science of navigation. |
1421 |
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| Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio published in Venice. |
1419 |
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1915 |
July 6
Jan Hus burned at the stake for heresy. |
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| Philipo
Brunelleschi publishes Rules of Perspective. |
1412 |
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1911 |
Pope John XXIII
excommunicates Jan Hus. |
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| New Latin
translation of Ptolemy's Geography revives the idea of a round world. |
1410 |
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| Jon Hus begins
campaign against Church corruption. |
1409 |
Pope Alexander V
publicly burns 200 of John Wycliffe's writings. |
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1408 |
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| Yung Lo orders
China's first sea expedition. |
1405 |
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| Venice imposes
first quarantine is response to Black Death. |
1402 |
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1401 |
England
introduces de Heretico Comburendo, giving the Church power over heresy. |
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