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Artist: Sandro Botticelli -The piece was contracted by the powerful banking family Medici.
-It is believed that Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco is in the painting himself as a model for Mercury.
-Many people say that the painting looks very similar to Flemish tapestries. -
Artist: Leonardo de Vinci -On July 6, Richard III is crowned King of England after deposing Edward V.
-The Sistine Chapel opened in the Vatican.
-The artist Raphael was born this year. -
Artist: Sandro Botticelli -The Battle of Bosworth took place this year.
-Matthias of Hungary took Vienna from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III.
-King Henry VII of England was crowned. -
Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci -Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea.
-Jews were expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian.
-Christopher Columbus departed with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America this year. -
Artist: Michelangelo -Martin Luther started school at the University of Erfurt at the age of 17.
-Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral arrived back in Lisbon after discovering Brazil.
-Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente. -
Artist: Donato Bramante -Portuguese navigators discovered Rio de Janeiro.
-Muslims in Granada were forced to convert to Catholicism.
-Christopher Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to the New World. -
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci -Mona Lisa is not actually the name of the woman in the piece of art, her name is Lisa Gherardini.
-The French Emperor Napoleon had a crush on Mona and had her hanging in his bedroom.
-The piece is estimated to be worth $2.5 billion. -
Artist: Raphael -Pope Julius II excommunicated the republic of Venice.
-38 Jews were burned at stake in Berlin, Prussia.
-Renée of France, French princess and Duchess of Ferrara was born this year. -
Artist: Raphael -Italian city Mirandola surrendered to the French this year.
-Conciliabulum of Pisa opened.
-Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League. -
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti -The artist was a profound painter, architect, and poet.
-This piece was one part of a huge fresco that depicts multiple Biblical stories.
-This work of art was painted onto the ceiling of a chapel. -
Artist: Raphael -Battle at Valeggio took place this year.
-French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia.
-Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateran at St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome. -
Artist: Titian -The printing of Erasmus' "Novum Instrumentum omne" was completed and was the first published New Testament in Greek.
-First Jewish ghetto was established.
-Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses "The German Beer Purity Law". -
Artist: Andrea del Sarto -Ottoman army occupies Cairo.
-First burning of Protestants at the stake in the Netherlands.
-Martin Luther sends his 95 Theses to Albrecht von Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, giving rise to the Protestant Reformation. -
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti -King Francis I of France commissioned Jean-Francois Roberval to settle the province of New France.
-Santiago, Chile was founded by Pedro de Valvidia.
-King Henry VIII ordered that a bible in English be placed in every church in England. -
Artist: Jan Brueghel the Elder -The Brazilian city Belem founded by Captain Major Francisco Branco.
-Roman Inquisition delivers order to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism.
-Walter Raleigh was released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana. -
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens -Prince Bethlen Gabor of Hungary signed a peace with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.
-The first merry-go-round was seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey.
-Astronomer Johannes Kepler's mom was arrested for witchcraft. -
Artist: Jan Brueghel the Younger -The English Short Parliament rises during this year.
-Second Bishop's war took place.
-English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland. -
Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo -Robert Devereux resigned as parliament supreme commander.
-Battle of Naseby took place.
-Sweden and Denmark signed the Peace of Brömsebro. -
Artist: Abraham van Beijeren -The Treaty of Andrussovo was signed to end a 13 year war between Poland & Russia.
-Abraham Crijnssen conquered Fort Willoughby, Suriname.
-France and England signed anti-Dutch military accord. -
Artist: Abraham Hondius -Roman Catholic Emperor Leopold I chased Jews out of Vienna.
-France and Bavaria signed a military assistance treaty.
-King Charles II gave royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company. -
Artist: Aert de Gelder -A tax revolt took place in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal.
-The Amsterdam opera opened at Leidsegracht.
-Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fé from the Spanish.
