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Johannes Gutenberg, invented the first printing press, and began printing the Gutenberg bible.
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Famous Firenze painter, sculptor, and inventor is born.
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It fell to the armies of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II. Constantine XI was killed defending the city, and four days later Santa Sophia, Justinian's "greatest church in Christendom", had become a mosque.
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The Hundred Years' War was a series of battles waged from 1337 to 1453.
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Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.
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Although the institution of The Inquisition had been around since 1231, it only became a byword for terror and indiscriminate torture in Spain in 1478, when Ferdinand and Isabella, with the support of Sixtus IV.
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Movement used to drive away roman catholics away from the protestants.
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Military event carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.
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The Siege of Florence took place from October 24, 1529 to August 10 1530, at the end of the War of the League of Cognac.
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Her reign was known for it's flourishing of drama and theater.
