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On May 23, 1453 the armies of Mehmet 2 captured and coqored constantinople
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Bellini was a well known and important Renaissance painter who was invited to the court of the ottomans to paint a picture of Mehmet 2.
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after years of occupation from the moors, the Iberian peninsula was reunited by Spain.
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after thrree years of har work michelangelo fineshes his statue david
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Bosch finishes his painting which he had been working on for a lerge part of his life
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after leaving a few years earlier the sailer Magellan died in the Philippines but his co-captain returned to Spain resulting in the first global circumnavigation.
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the begining of protostant peasent rebllions in the holy roman empire
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in 1529 the turks attempted to couqer vienna and although they faield the city was severly damaged.
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Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's theological book and is considered one of the most important protestant works.
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The Society of Jesus is founded and is engaged with mostly peaceful evangelizing of the native people of foreign lands.
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Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, was dedicated to Pope Paul III. This document gave the world a new way of looking at Planets and our Solar System
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the discovery of silver in the vein system of the Veta Madre at Guanajuato in mexico start a 500 year long silver industry in the country.
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A book about the misstreatment of the natives of the new world is written by Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552)
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De Magnete is a scientific work written by the English scientist William Gilbert and by his partner Aaron Dowling about garavity and magnitism.
